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"The Whig candidate for the Third Congressional District of Pennsylvania was Charles Naylor, a lawyer from Northern Liberties who ran against the Democrat Charles J. Ingersoll. It seems that Democratic officers purposefully lost one polling return sheet after the election, thereby causing all votes from the districts of Spring Garden and Northern Liberties to be rejected. Local election officials certified Ingersoll as the winner, but Whig state officers proclaimed that Naylor had won (which he had done, by 775 votes).

When the U.S. House of Representatives met in Washington, DC, on December 2, 1839, both Naylor and Ingersoll appeared to claim the seat for the Third District of Pennsylvania. After examining their credentials, Congress decided that Naylor should be permitted to sit, and he recited the oath of office.

Party politics and bad feelings ran high, so the matter was by no means over. A Philadelphia faction presented petitions stating that Ingersoll was properly elected to Congress. They further alleged election fraud and demanded an investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Elections.

The committee, in a somewhat partisan manner, confirmed Naylor’s election in July of 1840. Its 542-page report simply stated that Charles Naylor’s margin was 775 votes, in spite of admitting the certainty of fraud and other irregularities in the Spring Garden and Northern Liberties districts of Philadelphia—even though there was an obvious conspiracy among the election officers to fraudulently add hundreds of names to the voter registries and even though those illicit votes were counted for Naylor. Reasoned away as hearsay, these allegations were ignored.

The report was adopted by the House of Representatives on January 15, 1841, and Naylor took his seat with confidence—although his term was almost over. Rigged election or not, this affair caused great political grief for years in Pennsylvania, especially in Philadelphia. It was also associated with gubernatorial and other election problems and violence at the Pennsylvania State Capital in Harrisburg from 1838 to 1840. Jacksonian Democrats were prone to mob violence.

But Whigs like Charles Naylor proved to be reactionary, too, on the issue of immigration; they questioned the legitimacy of Catholics and demanded that immigrant children learn from Protestant text in school. Most Catholics were Democrats. In July 1844, a few months after Nativists had ignited a bloody riot in Kensington, Naylor accompanied a Nativist mob that had gathered to threaten the Catholic Church of St. Philip Neri on Queen Street.

The militia group guarding the church ordered the rioters to disperse, but they refused. Naylor jumped in front of the soldiers and begged them to hold their fire. The troops arrested the ex-Congressman and others, keeping them as prisoners inside St. Philip Neri’s. Everyone but Naylor was released the next day, so the mounting Nativist mob procured two cannons and pointed them at the church. Concerned about the combination of rioters and cannons, the militia released Naylor and he was carried home to Northern Liberties on the shoulders of the cheering mob."

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It is interesting that Charles was a Nativist. His father was an immigrant.

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