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A. have no personal knowledge Of that.

"A. have no personal knowledge OF that.
z. Do you know Of any persons who were
engaged in distributing them!
A. know parties, Of course who haze been
CONNECTED there and sent 10 the penitcntidry for
distributing them; at least that came out be-
fore the Court.
Q. Do you know of any parties not yet in
the penitentiary who were engaged in distrib-
uting them.
A. would not know except from hearsay;
| have no personal knowledge of their dis
! tributihg them.
Q. Did not a certain individual tell you
that he had distributed large number or
them, and was going to distribute more, of
something of the kind?
Yes, sir.
z. Do you know whether they were dis.
tributed in the city of Philadelphia or else.
where!
a. By that individual, in the county
that is Chester county.
Q. What was he! An American or Ger
man?
"A. lie was himself an American, and held
position on the railroad.
Q. On the Columbia railroad?
A. Yes. Sir; under Nh. Baker. the presc Ut
collector Of The Port Of Philadelphia, who was
superintendent Of the road at that time
Did that man tell you these
were fraudulent papers that he had been dis
tributng, or did lie say they were genuine?
| A. He did not say they were genuine.
.. Did he say they were fraudulent!
| A. Yes, sir.
Q. Have you not some knowledge about
number Of these papers being distributed
among the German population that had been
| in this country but little while
| A | heard that in the same woy; know
nothing personally about 1t.
@ Did not man tell you that he had
distributed large number of them in that
way!
| A. Yes. sir, man told me that.
O. What title did he give those who had
been in this country but a little while?
A. Well. you seem to have found out
good deal about these things; there was a
German messenger in the office who had been
away for some days, and when he came in !
took him to account for being absent; % p
said he, was doing good doing good -
said |, what good have you been doing,
| Chris p have you been sick? No. he said,
Il was putting out these papers!' had never
seen three naturalization papers in my life, /
suppose, unless l was at some election. -
What are they?' l asked him; cor said
he, these are sick!' 'What do You mean by
being sick p I said % God,' said he these
Jell0'cs har'm been here more than sir momths,'
and he had some others there that he said
were good told him he had better look out
for himself, or he would get into the peniten-
tiary; he said, dou't girc these 10 them;
leave them uhere they can get item, and they
don't know where they come FROM"
The above developments. made under the
sanctity of an oath. are sufficient to prove
that the supporters Of Buchanan and Breck-
lnridge hcsitatcd at no outrage upon the
elective i"anchise-at the use ofno appliances.
however base or corrupt, to procure their
election. The most devoted adhcrcnts of the
Democratic party must acknowledge that no
Republican government could endure for n
day. if such means were to be generally used
to carry the elections. Yet by precisely
such means, is the Administration now
striving to elect Mr. Breck inridgc. Fortu-
nately for the country, it is at last powerless,
even for the commission of evil, on grand
scale. But the will 10 do it is as strong as
ever. Can any homes, Democrat give his vote
to Mr.. Breckenridge and thereby virtually en-
dorse the rascality of the Administration
leaders in Pennsylvania in 1856? If Breck-
inridse should by any mischance be elected,
would he not reward the venal and corrupt
men who procured his election, in the same
mode by which Mr.. Buchanan rewarded the
same class Of men for their services in his
behalf? Who can doubt it?