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shall receive the criminal of high degree, as the Bridewell 

 does the thimble-rigger of the low dens of vice; when the 

 statesman, bribed through Credit Mobiliers or with actual 

 hard cash, to betray his constituents, shall be made to suffer 

 the penalty of his crimes, as certainly and swiftly as does 

 the sneak-thief, or the petty swindler at the street corners ; 

 when vice shall be thought hideous, because it is vice ; when 

 for proven corruption in office it shall be insisted that a 



Fidelity. 



man shall be stripped of place and power, and buried politi 

 cally, forever, without hope of resurrection; when all this 

 is brought to pass, then shall we hope to see the beginning 

 of the end. The raid on the railroads is but a trimming of 

 the edges of the vast and horrid ulcer that is eating out the 

 vitals of our free government the ulcer whose real name is 

 Corruption in Office! 



