Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-16
STATE CONVENTION.

Mr' McOonneI, from the committee &c
prepare and present an address, reported
and read the following, which was unani
mously adopted by the convention
address to the Democratic Party of Illinois,
DEMOCRATS We are about entering
upon campaign, which, for the sigoifi.
canoe OF It's present, and the importance
OF its future results, has had no parallel for
long series Of years.
-Four years ago. after q severe struggle
through an arduous contest marked by
difficulties and prejudices of various kinds.
we succeeded in prostratng our opponents
and in placing the reins OF government in
tho hands Of men whose course has been
such as to advance The national welfare
and vlndicate the national honor. We
were called upon then to decide the cues
ton, whether our brethren who had emf
grated to foreign country. should be left
{" the expressions of miscalled republic,
or should be readnitted into our Union.
after achieving their independence, to en-
Jy the blessings Of liberty and security
under the protection of their native lard.
A party whose minds were filled with aD
prehensions of evil from the extension OF
the limits of free institutions. distressing
the virtues of repuhlicanism. deprecated
the measure, aud in striving TO defeat il,
were swept down by the resistIess current,
of popular sentiment.
Having failed in a long series of en-.
croachmen's and insults lie provoking US
to war with a weak, though insolent.
neIghbor, and convinced that our forbear
ance would endure still further injury.
Mexico committed an act of undisguised
hostility-invaded the country which had
become ours by Il g cession of an indie
pendent state, and shed the blood OF on,
citizens upon our own soil. The poiri,
having arrived, beyond which forbearance
ceased TO be virtue, and reluctantly fore.
ed TO chastlse wilful and unwise people.
Congress at once declared war, and bro
ceeded TO vindirate the honor Of the coun.
try and to avenge the blood of our nun.
dered citizens. Tie voices of our distant
countryman, wafieI from the far south
we've heard in the breeze which blew
from Pa!o Alto and Reraca de la Palma
and rising with indignant power, as one
man, the country demanded vengeance
upon the invader. In that momen, of
patriotic entbusias q, few-for the honor
OF The country, be it spoken-but few were
found to lift their voices against the Justice
called for by the almost unanimous senti
ment of the nation. These. having EN-
halmed themselves in the history of the
time, shall be hanFed down to posterity
with ever increasing execration, furnish
ing a warning to succeeding generations,
Sand fostering II: the infamy of years"
But since that tins others, actuaied by
blind party preiulice, and emboldened by
the immunity Oftheir predecessors in infa.
my, have viified the administration for lis
patriotism. and endeavored to clog the
wheels OF government IN its necessary
action. Shedding crocodile tears over
the graves Of the fallen and proffarins y
hypocrltical sympathy to those who are
ye' suffering in the cause of their country,
hey insult the living and the memory of
the dead alike. Attempting to brand the
administration with having plunged us
into an iniquitous war, they denounce our
soldiers as robbers and incendiaries.
,hirsting for blood and hungry and grasp
ing for plumber. Men have been found
go utterly blinded by party feeling and so
completely lost to all sense of honor. as TO
stand up in the legislative halls of our
country, and pronounce war unde rtaken
10 vindicate our honor as nation. "a
war for conquest" crusade preached
against the right, engaged 10 for territori
al ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. without provocarion
and contrary to justice and humanity -
Affecting TO sympathize with The imasina
ry wrongs of'be Mexicans, they have not
scrupled to compromise the fair fame of
our country to SANDER the dead and villfy
the iiving-for the purpose of advancing
their own unholy schemes. Identifying
themselves with our enemies in sentiment. |
they have only stopped short of actual 60. !
operation with them in the field. Fight
ing the moral and intellectual battles of
the Mexicans, they have we'll deserved to
he called the second Mexican host; and
headed by man who. by both the mum
her ofhis defeats and the cause for which
he labors, is entitled To the name of the
Santa Anna Of the north. the parallel Is
Democrats! VS. cannot all go into the
conflict upon the plains of Mexico: II is
not expected of every one to shoulder
mraket or draw sabre in the field of
battle; but. (thsnks to the disguised trea.
son OF our political opponents } we have
an opportunity of fighting valiantIy even
at home /; and where there are no sounds
OF the rolling drum or roaring cannon,
there are laurels TO be won, as unfadiBg |
as those upon the brow Of the victor at the |
head Of our army. The peaceful walks
Of life lead through conflicts as important
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