Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-08-24

tnlS neaQs but ask mere, II we are |
ready to disband OF be disbanded on this
causef Is it necessary, in the name of
common sense, ask, is it necessary for
the purpose of concentrating these great
Improvements, TO surrender the admins. !
tration of the republic into the hands of
our enemies,-hands which are trem-
bling with aGfeyerish impotence. for the
spoils of Office, and which win be laid in
speedy and unsparing ruin upon the
whole ofthat policy which we have fought
so long to establish and maintain? I'm
possiblel For my part, western man as
am, and sincerely as am devoted to all
rational schemes for the advancement OF
Western interests, would rather see the.
Mississippi strown with scenes OF ship.
wreck and disaster-I had rather see our
commerce lashed around the Lakes by
unbroken tempests from Buffalo to Chi
cage, without shelter, than see the
fiercer tempests of Wing misrulp let loose
upen the Republic. True. feel aggrie-
we'd at the course Of the President: ! at.
tended the Convention TO Join with the
thousands lhere assembled in making up
a grand manifesto OF Western sentiment
upon the subject; one which, from the
vast extent OF country represented, the
unexampled number of the representatives
in attendance, and the stern rejection OF
all party elements from the scene, would
tie likely 10 present a more formidable
front 70 the nation and the national au.
'tsorities, than any form OF embodying
public opinion hitherto employed. But.
from beginning to end, in every proceed
ing circumstance and feature. saw a
cunningly devised scheme on the part of
The Wigs, TO make party capital out Of
the occasion. 1t was designed to be a
political St. Bartholomew's massacre
The democracy were invited TO attend
grand rally of the Wee. to be without DIS
finction Of party; ''the bugles of party
sounded truce"--ihe banners of political
wa'fare were twined together In sign of
temporary unison; the crafty assassins
hid Gheir arms under the olive branch.
the hour for convention came, and in
that first hour the works Of treachery
commenced. Wings covered the ros-
trum--tchigS prepared the resolutions-a
Uhfg President was indicted into the
Cbair-rhig secretaries kept and read
the minutes--whig orators, in one un.
broken series, from Tom Corwin down to
the small.beer politicians of Chicago, oc.
cupied the stand--ah was uhlg! WHO!
WIG! Il a distinguished democrat
rose TO take part in this admirable union
convention, his rising vas the unfailing
signal for Kisses, groans & brutal uproar.
A decided and offensive wing smell
was impaired to everything in the Con
Vention. Not moments quiet and re-
spectful hearing was vouchsated to any
delegate who wished define has position
and that of the Democracy with precision
and modify the impetuous and wholesale
character Ofthe doctrines advanced by
some rational limitations and distinctions.
No one was suffered TO take the field to
set up any discriminative landmarks, or
for any other purpose, save 20 join in the
torrent of general defamation. 1t was
no place for temperate discussions, for
critical analysis, and for settling with
proper care the basis for harmonious CO.
operation between two great parties,
agreeing in nothing save this, and only
here, within certain bounds. Witness
The reception Of the Hon. ID. d. Field, OF
N. Y. who with all bis talent. Informa
ton and courteousness OF manner could
only be beard as he was able to raise his
roico above the geese like Kisses which
greeted him. Witness the treatment of
the Hon. N. B. Judd, of Chicago, and his
coadjutators, in their resolule opposition 70
cert,in schemes which, at least were
questionable, and which they honestly
disapproved. What Democrat fom be.
ginning to end, who bad the holiness to
resist the tide, was heard with respectful
altenlionl For one, felt that as a Dem.
ocrat had no business there; that it was
really Wing Convention in which the
aFOwed objects were secondary to party
speculation; hollow insidious truce pro
CT timed to bring Us under their masked
batteries. LoOk at Webster's, letter wei!
written of course and containing power
ful arguments in favor of the cause OF
Western Improvement; but strongly init
mating towards the close, to his wing
friends, that they must stick to It as an
exclusively wing measure, to which the
Democrats are giving only desnltory
and occasional support, and from the par
~ profits whereof they must be firmly
driven off. Observe the editorials of the
great newspaper oracle OF the Wings,
Horace GreeIy, who notwithstanding
his jesuitical ahjurations of party spirit al
Chicago, is doing his best from his tripod
ia New York, to mark and appropriate it
as Wing measure Observe the tune
ofall the whig Journals, with only now
and then stubborn exception ofhnnesty.
see even our friends of the ..'rrue Dem.
ocrat" are in small way helping Ola this
game; and grinding their little organ to