Iron County register., 1880-11-25
1. There Any Pun,.nments
New York SUM- :

No individual who habitvally engag-
es in the commission Of crime can hope
to escape from punishment. Even II
he evades the hand Of cripinal justice,
he 10 vet effectively pdhlshed. Ais
crimes, acting upon his inner nature.
make him worse and worse and worse,
until at last he becosnes 90 monstroua
that the common conscience Of men
rises up against him, and he becomes
banished from society Of every kind.
The law of man may still tolerate him;
tor lack of certain evidence he may be
saved from prison or the gallows; but
the law Of God deals with him, and his
punishment becomes harder than he
can bear. A1e ia1r. r't
Is there any such justice rs this for
political partfesf Or may they may 60
on forever, sinking from depravity 20
and from wrong to wrong,
without ever being visited with judg-
ment?
Certainly no political organization Of
ceeded the Republican party I'm the au-
Sss s G. sisSiS, & ~
escape from defeat was by the narrow
est possible margin, it succeeded In .
majority Ut the States, electing Its
President and retaining possession Of
power. E
In 1875, having been completely de-
feated ut the polls, yet possessing
through the carpet-bag Governments
of three Southern States the means Of
perpetuating itself in possession Of the
Federal Administration, this party
boldly conspired to change the result
of the election, and by frauds whose
10 not fully appreciated, 1t a.
nally succeeded In putting Its own de-
feated candidate I'm the place Of the
man who had been elected. This po-
itical crime was of the very gravest
nature and the greatest magnitude. II
there 10 any supervising justice in the
affairs of nations, such q crime ought
not to escape its retributiOn; and yet ut
the election which has just been COM
pleted, this very party, with all its
guilt upon its head, has obtained ma
jority Of the electoral votes.
Again, i'm nominating its last candi-
date for President, the same Republi-
can party selected man who had been
by tribunals which the party
itself had created, and which were Re-
publican in composition, Of misdeeds
that ought to exclude him from every
post of public confidence and public
honor. They nominated man who
had been proved guilty Of bribe taking
and Of perjury, and who had even been
aud denounced by the prin-
cipal Republican journals for the cOm-
mission OF these misdeeds. Ruch NOM
ination seemed to be All insult to good
sense and to ordinary morality; and yet,
as we have seen. this man, thus stained,
and condemned, thus blacken-
ed by the highest Republican Authori-
ties, has now been elected by this same
party to be President Of the
United States, the whole people being
aware of the facts and no serious at
tempt being made to deny them or
disprove them. Thus the offences Of
the Republican party would appear
not only to be condoned but to be even
adopted by majority Of the American
people.
Things like these would seem to sug-
rest that there is no moral rule In poll
lies, and that u political party may
with impunity commit the gravest
wrongs. We cannot bring our
'elyes tn believe that this is 40; and yet
he question recurs whether there Ii
my punishment for the misdeeds Of p0- |
itical parties, and whether any Justice |
. meted out for public crimes when po-
itical par ties are their authors and abet- |
Ors.
We maintain that there Ii . moral |
aw fur politics, and that . party gull
y like tho Republicans must In due |
ime be adequately recompensed. 4