Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-29
Naturalization Frauds in Salisbury.

The action of the Democratic Board of Registration of voters in this town, is so startling iii it's nature, and puts such pre- mium on illegal voting, that we think it deserves moro than passing notice.
 The action of the Board to which we re- fer, was had upon the naturalization pa pers of certain aliens who reside in this State, but who have obtained naturaliza- tion papers in tho city of New York. If the following recital of facts does not es- tablish the fact that this Board of Select men and Town Clerk do ftly supplement those exceedingly busy naturalization "mills' which are ''run" in New York, by Justices Barnard, McCunn, and others, then we shall have written in vain.
 About the 1st of the present month, some thirty-tive aliens, residing in Salisbu- ry, were sent to New York, and all these obtained complete naturalization papers. More than twenty of these men duly filed application with the Registrars, and their names were placed on the list of appli- cants "to be made." We should add, al- so, Mat at leasi sic oftkena had bmju naat1e their declarations of intention" at Litc}tteld, on he 16h of September, 1868, before the Supe- rior Court then in session, and were, there fore, by the letter of the law, obliged to wait fully two years from that date, before taking out full papers. All these facts, and other facts, too, were we'll known to those who opposed the admission of these Applicants; and the Board at its first ses- sion on October 19, so far needed their strenuous objections as to defer the decis- ion of the matter until October 24th. These objections were made for no party reasons, but because there was certain knowledge that the proposed action was utterly illegal, and would, if carried out, establish here dangerous precedent. On the last named day, our objections were argued-to the effect that it is the plain in tent and meaning of the law of Congress, that the alien shall have resided in the State or Territory where naturalized, for the year Lsst precsaing, and also. that such is the universal interpretation of the law, and the practice and requirement of the Courts in this State and in every other This argument was established by many proofs, and not the least, by the fact that the files of the New York Tribune, which | contained for o tima ooniao of tbo potnr,l ization records of tue Court of Common Pleas of New York, give the names of Mese oery men as residents of New Fork, with name and number of Street attached there to, and by the further fact that these ap- plicants themselves admitted under oath, before this Board, that they, respectively, did give those identical Streets and numbers tc hle Court in Ne,O Fork, and Mat they, ao,d hzeir acitaesses in Near Fork swoRE THAT THEY LIVED THERE.
 And yet in spite Of everything, this tfair, minded Board-God save the handmade thls decision, so monstrous, both ill law and in morality, that since the papers ap- obliged to receive them, and that they could not inquire into the fraud, however strongly alleged or clearly proven; and so the men were sworn in.
 The above is brief history of matter whose record is not yet all made up. We believe such .fraud is not beyond the test of inquiry. There is no partisan purpose in the matter of our objections but there is a purpose that votes shall not be cast here with impunity, which arc beyond all ques. tion perjured and fraudulent. Doubtless these Irishmen themselves thought they could be legally made citizens in this man ner-but others, who sent them, know bet ter. It has been done ''as quietly as possi, 6le' but ot"quietly' enough to succeed, ei ther now. or next April. And it is quite possible that in this, as in some other things, the "vaulting ambition" of the al- ready notorious Man of Iron may'overleap itself" We know that we do not want, and will not suffer, the Big njun Judges of Tammany Hall, whose wholesale work of naturalization is so shameless in its rascal ity, to make voters for the old State of Connecticut, or for the rampant little new State of Lime Rock.
 THE GROWTH OF A ISLANDER. If anybody is thorough master of the art of butch ering mans reputation it is the editor of the Sentinel A fortnight since, in speak