Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
From the New York Express.


Observation-Disclosures ABUSES-THE REMEDY
Inc TWO weeks preceding the recent election were
Zealously occupied by the Locoioco party in New
oik In anufdcturing UoferS. We find upon
an accurate estimate, that not less than two thou
sand live hundred aliens were made scitizens''
during this period of time, while the Locofoco
majority over the Wings and Native Americans
In this city is fixed a. one thousand six hun
dred on the Electoral ticket. Thus it will be
seen mat the votes of men Just admitted TO the
sacred right of citizenship have settled the poli,i-
Cal character both of this city and the Empire
State We wish, now the election is over, 10
speak dlsPassionately of this business. We wish
10 appeal TO the leaders Of each and every party
against This monstrons abuse of naturalization,
'lal tne remedy, IT one exists, may be applied
ihe hrst question which suggests itself is, were
these two Thousand five hundred men morally
ana legally entitled TO become citizens of the u
ni'ed States BY which we mean, to exercise
me elec,ive franchise giving to each and every
one OF them the same political power possessed
! by Benjamin f. Butler or John Jacob Astor.-
re SoIe".niy declare they t0ere not. From care
iui, scrulinlZlng attention bestowed for successive
days In different courts, both upon the manner of
lne examination by the judges, the answers of
me witnesses, the uniform similarity of their re-
pies, and their utter incapaciiy to understand the
! oaliis ana the design of naturalization, we have
no hesitation In pronouncing The whole business,
DIS now conducted, an iniquilous, prohigate, and
| s'upendous fraud upon the whole American people
10 oegln with Judge VaDderpoel In his judg-
meht, only two questions were necessary 10 be
asked OF each witness 'IIow long has A or b
resided In this country 70 "Has he been on, of
II since he came in 90 These are vital questions,
IL Is Uue; but the answers, in nine cases out of
'en'Were given in monosy lables, without any test
questions how the witness knew what he was
swearing TO, or what evidence he had, except
vague recoliecloDs of important facts involving
the HSh' OF MS man to receive his naturalization
papers. Nearly every witness earlessly would
swear mat his client had not been out of the ter
'H"y o, lne Cnl'ed States during the last fve
years. ibis knowledge was generally founded
upon mere belief or sTpposiiion and not from
personal knowiedge, which the oath expressly re-
quIres at the hands of the witness. With the
exception Of Judge Daily, the questions in each
court were put in most indecent haste, and crude,
uninteiIIgble, inconsistent, evasive, and unsats.
factory answers received without the slightest re-
Duke oil the witness, or effort TO sft out the truth
niuch less by any indication on the part Of the
IuogeS mat they were discharging solemn, vast
y important, and most responsible portion of
uer judicial duties. They conducted the exa-
ninalion as if merely endorsing drafts drawn by
ibe Locofoco party.
-, Another thing. Every man who came from
IdDnany Hall had received the most careful in
sructlons relative TO the questions 10 he mt and
the answers which would be required of him
10 the same routine of questions, which the
judges necessarily used, Tor the avalanche nj
Germans, Irish, Swiss. Prussians, French. Rus
SLAMS, and Poles who crowded the court rooms for
successive days, their answers were almost uni;
ioTfnIy the same. Nothing was left by which
""'h would come out or perjury could be detect