Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-09-19

'IioRal degradation.l the writings oflibeTty
itself, 'and the untold, countless miseries
which would result to humanity from an
event so incomprehensible dreadful---wE
ARE NOT prepared to say that we will in
cur all these evils rather than permit a
few thousand slaves to be transported
from one part Of the country 70 smother,
even though that other by now exempt
from the curse. Whoever Is prepared to
say this, and pledge himself to it, is Free
Soil man without condition. Such man
we know where to find. There is no half
way work about him. Having made up
his mind, there is no further use for the
exercise Of reason. He has Calculated
tho value of the Union," and found it
nothing; or so little, that question as to
lhe social organization of part OF one
of its frontier appendages, far transcends
1t in Importance. An, infatuated man !
1ftbe spirits Of Washington and Hancock,
.ofFranklin, Jefferson, Adams, and hest
Of warthies who acted with them, behold
your heartless contempt Of their sacrifices
and your own mercies,--your base de.
generacy from the patriotism ofyour fore.
Iathers,-your fitness for and desert Of the
Imiseries which you all but invoke, by
.prelerring them 10 an evil comparatively
SO slighf,--sure we are that they must
wish for place to weep, and that angels
must wish to weep with them. The fair.
est, happiest, freest, most prosperous,
intelligent. and promising nation on earth,
TO which the oppressed of all other nations
look for an example and a home, for
such a nation deliberately to destroy itself,
and become voluntary wreck, Kissing
by.word and reproach, to every despotic
power an earth, beacon to warn the
world against the perils Of popular gov.
ernment,--is too horrible picture to be
contemplated with composure. We be-
seech those misguided men who think and
speak so lightly ofthe Union; whose Ian.
guage, conduct and measures, all tend to
weaken the bonds which bind it together;
whose influence is best when most over
ruled and counteFacted; we beseech such
men TO pause and consider the ground on
which they stand. Some ofthem we have
been accustomed to respect. With some
of them we have been accustomed to act.
But pursuing the course which they are
now pursuing, we cannot bat look upon
them as dangerous men, who must be
resisted denounced and exposed.
In regard to California and New Mex
leo, they cannot but know and admit that
ahe South has the same rights of setlle-
Tnent and otherwise as the North. But
they say,men have no right to settle there
with their slaves; it is contrary to the
spirit Of Constitution. And how do they
eVince their sincerity in this belief? BY
refusing to submit the question to the Su.
preme Court Of the u. s., the tribunal
specially pointed out by the Constitution
itself for the trial of all cases arising un-
der it, and doubtless the most able, a.
well as the most honest tribunal TO be
found on earth. The South offered, nay
urged, to submit the question of its rights
in the new territories, to this tribunal; bu
the north refused. The latter knowing
that it had the numerical strength in the
lower House, chose to make THAT tn,
test Of right, rather than the Constitution
as interpreted by the Supreme Court
And thus the question stands at present
We have an abiding conviction that TIL
good sense Of the nation, when it has ha,
time to develope itself, will pronounc,
against the unconditional free-soil men
and liz favor Of compromise. IF not, mis-
chief is before US.