Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-12-28

would follow as the inevitable conseQuen. o
ces Of your votes. how your whole frames {,
and hearts settled down into sternness and e
Your minds had already Fl
decided that this great step was right, and f
no craven fear could drive you from it, n
Cheered onward by the votes and encour- {
agement of your fellows. you came up to
your country's rescue in solid phalanx- 6
victory, neutrality-suspicious. per.
ched upon your glorious banners-lhe
great heart of a mighty nation beat with
new pulsation, and the world saw that
the result OF your united and patriotic ct.
forts must be the annexation ofTexas.
Democrats, the glorious act of linking
the fortunes of the lone star of the south
with the blazing galaxy of states, was the
result your votes. Had any other been
the result the blue canopy above us would
have been filed with the deep and often
repeated excavations of iieemen BETRAYED
by their representatives. Had this great
measure been defeated, you would have
fastened upon every man who opposed it,
the deep written stamp of traitor. But
the great act was accomplished. Your
representatives as ever, were true to the
trust you committed to their hands. And
war-servile, bloody war, marked by all
the brutality that could characterize ma
ton that would go war for such cause,
is now the fortune of your country. Had
you foreseen this, would you have been
deferred from voting as you did? Never!
Where the path of duty led, there you
were willing to be found, regardless of
danger. But the same croaking politi'
ticians who lorewarned you of the war
are still awake, and are now appealing to
your fears by recitals Of bloodshed and
expenditure. Their sympathies are with
the enemies of your country. They aim
every shaft which political malice can de-.
wise at the men you elected to carry out
fyour wishes and the measures you have
approved by your votes. Friends, can
such croakers hope to drive you from your
principles? Look at their great meeting
in Lexington where their splendid orator
Clay put forth the edict of their party, that
all the brillian, acquisitions of our armies
should be thrown away-that we should
forget all the wrong, done to us--that the
piratical ravages committed upon our CON-
merce in times past should be overlooked
and the indemnities due to our own peo-
pie should be lorgotten-that we should
give up the CALIFORNIA;, give up New
Mexico-surrender the Santa Fe trail, as
haunt for robbers-withdraw our troops
from a country while it is at the same
moment adding insult to injury-and dis.
play to the astonished gaze of the world a
nation too unstable in counsels to main.
tain its rights and honor. Is there not
enough, my friends in these propositions
to summon you again TO the watch-tower ?
Among that glorious band in far of'land
who have carried your flags in triumph to
the ramparts ofthe enemy, their lives one
almost as it were from among the graves
ofthe dead-one who poured out his blood
in gushing rivulets upon foeman's field
pierced through the vitals and still lived
aid bore the triumphant banner of your
country over new battle felds-suppose
the voice Of "a Shields was here to speak
of the perfdy of the scheme of retreating
from that country for the want of stability
Think you that he would not denounce il
as treacherous to the interests and glory
of your country? While they are fighting
your battles abroad, will you not sustain
them at home? Democrats in these per.
fidious measures, if those sympathies are
, against your country, have you not work
, worthy of your opposition? Will you
forget these questions so eminently I'M
portant to the glory Of your country, in
ignoble discussions In your calm anC
5 sober moments reflect upon this. Forge1
personal bickerings--forget your personal
predictions, and let the great democratic
family come forth in a voice of thunder
against those who would betray our coun.
} try into the hands of her enemies.
An AMERICAN.