The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-14
Liberty Dies where Vice and Ignorance Flourish

IDAHO CITY. IDAHO TERRITORY, February 10, 1868.
To the Editors of The Irish Republic.
GENTLEMEN A moment SINCE laid down your paper, of
January 25th, finishing it with the splendid article
Political Morality" l feel like shouting for THE IRISH
at this time particularly your
in readngi am conscious of
that may also shout-n common with my Irish friends
for the Irish Republic that IS to be the soil of Erin for
that hope grows stronger in every time read the senti
them here gradually exerng their favorable influences
the Irish mind which Influences doubt not
being exered all the land where your paper honestly
read THE IRISH REPUBLIC is in truth faithful Waterman
the citadel of liberty its trumpet gives forth
tain sound Every lover of his country you great
debt of gratitude for warning voice in view OF
political and social vices Continue thunder forth from
your sancum these bod brave words sartle the people
into realization of the dangers that threaten the Republic
for there breakers ahead )" them from the
ethagy in which they to be enranced the reveber
lions will be heard, they echoing now, among these
mountains the confines of the land Thewor to be done
is indeed Hereuean One of the tabled great abors
of Hercules wherein he cleanse the Augean stables
sngehanded immense it was cannot be compared to
this in which must all take part But the strong
clear river he turned through them accomplished it, Every
CITIZEN native and adopted, every and every woman
must his and her influence for good matter how little
in the singular, for the accumulated union of them will
make river that shall wash the nation clean, and bring
about the grand consummaon Corruption corruption
corruption written in letters of blue light upon the very
dome of national Capitol and fear that if looked
we could see it every capitol of every State in the
Union.
To the superficial observer we seem to be marching
commercial and political greatness but thinking perceving
men-who remember that God is just and that law
whether natural religious, moral social political in His
great economy can be trampled upon with impuny by
tons Individuals and look back to the grandeur of
Greece and Rome and study the of their decadence
and read the newspapers of the day. which, supporting
different party views and measurer show up all the selfish
of each other and know the nuy that abounds in
high and low places from end of the land to the other
the handwriting the wall and rembe for the per-
petuty of the Republic Sodom and Gomorrah would not
have stood long they did before the avengng wrath of
Jehovah had they enjoyed the light of to-day and been
stepped in crime the cities of Washington, New
York and Chicago and respectable Boston, with its
vanished sins. parcuarize these cities BECAUSE
count of their size and commercial importance thew to
stand out in holder relief and their msdeeds noy
chroncled Our whole country needs reformation and God
knows part of it than does this Pacific coast Here
riot in their depravity with modest make
them afraid Men, and women Also in too instances,
appear have left behind them at their homes in the States
their respect for goodness and their moral responsibility
Where ask, to look for examples of virtue and
proby not to those who have been elected to conspicuous
positions rulers and lawmakers by the franchises of free
men? But alas! in overwhelming majority of cases,
shall moral sense not look in vain "When the wicked
beareth rule the people this is true in day
it in ancient times But let not forgewe do not
wish forge-that the stream be and the
fountain impure In this America of ours the people the
ountainthank God there hereditary rulers here
We glory in freedom and do we'll to glory in it but
must remember that freedom is not license We have
right through freedom, do ILL., The trample
upon virtue break the laws and transgres any moral obga
that moment the miserable slaves of the penalties
attached to the wrong-doer
"Oh my countrymen! awake! awake to crimes that
shall be your ru miseres that shall make you desoate
Men of America ye who glory in your land and would have
its glory shine respenden user down through the coming
ageswho would perpeuate its Republican institutions to
the last syllable Of recorded timedo your duty each
watchu remembering that eternal vigilance the price
liberty" Vote for who exemplify goodness in their
of its destiny throw away your voties accept your
ponsibtes undervalue your influence for good and
our beloved Republic is safe.
We are now as were in convalescent state Slavery
is dead that unsghy excrescence that has long hung
upon the body polite sappng the foundation Of every excel
encen itself the sum of all vllainieshasb been cut out
We have been trembling in the scales Of vitality and
still weak But the dawn has come, and it rests with
each of us under God enjoy the full clear light of
perfect day.
And now Messrs Editors of the public veal
said at the outset your abors gigantic but the good
of every with you, holding up your hands. Let