He concocted. with the aid of the Democratic city committee and with the aid of Judge Cardozo and Judge Barnard and Judge McCunn. three Democratic judges who disgraced our judiciary. some of whom were impeached and some of whom died during proceedings for impeachmentir. Tweed with the aid of such men concocted a fraud notonly upon the ballot but upon the sacred right of American citizenship. In pursuance of this conspiracy there were naturalized in the wonth of October 60.000 people as citizens of the United States. In no year before and in no year since up to 1880 had 60.000 people been naturalized in the cityof New York. But in1.868 sixtyodd thousand were naturalized. The Lawrence committee investigated this matter in 1870. and they found that the supreme court of the State of New York had gone into the business for the first time in the history of the court. and they found that 10.070 had been naturalized in that court. A year later another investigation was made of the records of the court. It was found that 18.824 appeared from the records of the court to have been naturalized in October. 1868. Someof the judges exhibited such surprising celerity in making citizens that they made as many as 2.000 in a single day. as the records of their courts show. But that was not the worst of it. It appeared that less than 50 per cent of those naturalized years before were minors when they came to the country.
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