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eight aliens were registered on declaration of intention of becoming citizens, made by them in vacation, before a clerk, and not in term time, before a competent court, of whom all or nearly all, voted at what was called the white man's box,' and for other sufficient causes.' And, from this count determine whether the Governor neglected the four hundred and fifty-eight, because they were cast by persons improperly registered, on declaration of intention to become citizens, because the declaration was made in vacation, before a clerk, or because all or nearly all, "voted at what was called the 'white man's Box.' If the former, it matters not what box they were placed in, if that made them illegal they ought not to have been counted, even, had they been deposited in what was called, "the Black man's box." But what does the law say upon this subject of foreigners or aliens making declaration of intention before clerks? Act of Congress of the United States, approved 26th May, A. D. 1824, section two reads: "No certificates of citizenship or naturalization heretofore obtained from any court of record within the United States, shall be deemed invalid in consequence of an omission to comply with the requisition of the first section of the act entitled "an act relative to evidence in cases of naturalization, passed the 22nd day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

Section third (3rd) of the same act, entitled "an act in further addition to "an act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.”

"The declaration required by the first condition specified in the first section of the act to which this is an addition, shall if the same has been bona fide made before the clerk of either of the courts in the said condition named, be as valid as if it had been made before the said courts said courts respectively." This act "seems to require that" the Governor should not have thrown these yotes out, because the declaration of becoming a citizen was

made before a clerk, and not "before a competent court." It would have been much better for the Governor had he never given any reason for throwing the votes for Giddings out. For his reasons condemn him, whether you apply them to the facts or to the law. I will now inform the Governor that in Grimes county there were two boxes run during the whole election, on every day of the election, and the boxes were not even in the same room of the courthouse, and one of the boxes was called "the white man's box" too; not only so the Registrar appointed by the Governor for Grimes county, Mr. R. N. Mills who managed the box at which the freedmen voted, would not let a white man vote at that box, or stand about it. Mr. Mangrum and Mr. Black superintended "the white man's box," and no negroes were allowed by them to vote at that box. Why did not the Governor throw out this vote, the answer is evident, Grimes gave Clark as returned, one thousand six hundred and ninety eight votes, and D. C. Giddings only one thousand two hundred and ninety three. Now if the votes cast in Washington county were illegal because they were put in the box called "the white man's box," would the votes cast in Grimes county by the same purity of reasoning, not be illegal, which were placed in the box called "the negroe's box," or is that the "one place provided by law?"

The certificate of election which the Governor gave W. T. Clark, instead of being prima facie evidence of his election, and right to the seat in Congress, contains within itself the proof that D. C. Giddings was duly elected to Congress by a majority of the votes of the qualified electors of the third congressional district of the State of Texas. Governor Davis is the lion of this house of corruption, when he comes forth, shakes his manes, and roars, his voice is heard from one end of the State to the other, and his officials tremble at the sound thereof, and stand ready to do any thing he may command.

"Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world,
Like a Collossus, and we petty men

Walk under his large legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Men at some time, are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves that we are underlings
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed,
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods,
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed, with more than with one man
When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome,
That her wide walks encompass'd but one man?

Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.'

THE END.