Speech #540135543

I do. There were 60.000 fraudulent naturalization papers issued from that same New York superior court within three days in the year 1868. They floated all over a part of the country. and according to my colleagues idea every one of those fellows was entitled to plunge the United States into war if he went abroad and was badly treated. These court records are of the slightest possible importance. They are challenged at the polls. they are inquired into by election officers. and it never was pretended that they are anything but prima facie evidence. Again and again and again men have been indicted and punished for voting on them. in spite of the record.