Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-10-24
JOLIET ILLINOIS, OCTOBER "a, 1913.
Y lLoul money. LGheers aud. stamp.


But the wings never had a fair fair trial
to get fairly into operation and show off
their gorgeous govefhfttetf,. The people,
the. working CLASSES, the demncrat.y ofthe
country, would always interfere and -cdt
short their hopes Of splendpr. La,terly,
however, they have got sick Of the whole
system; tariff, bank distribution, bank.
rppt laws. are ell now abandoued.E They
have not now rag Of Principle left, and
are about as naked as. model artiste.-
[Roars of laughter. They are now abot,
trying a iiew experiment.; whiehis to see
how a party can get along without anu
principles; good. and | believe they
will make as good fight without as with.
1 am an admirer Of Old Zack; have al.
ways, wished to see him succeed. except
noU. That he has been ever successful
in war cannot he denied, but the greatest
victory he ever ACHE ted was over the
whfg party. [Shouts.1 They wanted him
10 pledge himself totheir principles. He
did not know what their principles were.
and thought he could get along without
any; SO the wing party Struck their col.
ors and came over to him body and
hreeches. FStamping and cheering. l.
They not only surrendered their princi.
pies. but they sacrificed their great leader
Henry Clay, the only man who for TWEEN.
~ years has kept the wing party toge,h.
er.
know Cen; Taylor well: he is brave
stodt-heaIted, honest old soldier. would
rather my right arm should be palsied
than say aught Of him. like him better
than those who support him. like him
because he has fought well for his coun
try. 1 love him for what he has DONE
Wings affect to love him for what he is
TO do. | know too, he is only soldier,
professional soldier. and beyond his
profession he does not claim nor does he
know OF care to know anything. he.
lieve now he could not, it he would, give
pledge to conduct this government on
any fixed principles whatever. He SAWS
himself he LAS NO claims or qualifications
TO- thai high office. Clay has one con-
ISOLATION, however, If consolation il car
be called. Although assailed and per-
haps abused by his enemies, he never
was disgrdctd except by his oun friends.
This reminds me of an incident which
occurred in the army. A countryman of
mine by me name Of DonnelIy, was a
butcher in the army. He used TO auend
TO his duty as butcher until a fight came
on, and then he would snatch up some
kind ofuniform and pitch into the ihickest
ofthe fight. At Chapnltepec he got in
advance of the line; and having on a
Mexican uniform, was mistaken for a
Mexican, fired upon and killed: soon
came across and recognised him. All.
ha! DonneltS, fs that You, and are you
wounded? Yes, GeneYal,"''I said he,
ain badly wounded; am good as dead
now. But, General" said he. 'thank
G"d, ! was not killed by the Mexcans.
1t was my own friends that shot me" -
So with Henry Clay. 1t was not the
democrats who killed him, bu. it was his
own friends. r-- r.a .G .-s,1u- teaaar
Fellow citizens. there is one very
strange feature, in this campaign. There
are those in this country who wished me,
Gen. Taylor, and all others with US,
WELCOMED with bloody hands to hospita
BILE graves" in their far off enemy's coun
try: and what is very Strange, these same
meh are following the standard of the
very man they wished dead, and who
made his whole character in what they
called wicked, unjust, and -damna5Ie
maf' II we, as a party, cannot succeed
without stopping to such dishonesty as
ibis--ifwe cannot select our favorite as
candidate and adopt'a platform of princi
les open, and ayOwed--then let US he hea
ten. We want success on no other
grounds-in no other way. [Guod! hur.
rah!1 $50 .ae,'a.5ee7 - 30 7si.a.a
s-L zi FREE soft pART9. f" a-s
The next party seeking to rule is what
is technically called the free soil party"
They do not expect to succeed 1T this
elec,iqn, but have hopes of an hereafter
They have bnt one fixed principle. and
in this respect are little better off than
the wings, who have none. CaliGornia and
New Mexico are the only territories to
WHICH The free spil principle can apply.
| have travelled over the sot,hErn pUt:
ton Of these countries. ard do not believe
irpoSsabis to legssldte slavery into thin.
So tar asst relates TO these Countries, This
ihira party movement is wholly imprac
ticable and useless. ma
Orr candidates are Generals Cass and
Ru,er aIknow them both personally. ]
regret that some Of our Wllig ttiend have
descended 10 suth low, vulgar and per
sonal abuse as they have, Of these dis
tingnishedmen. lhnpe no democrat vii
do This of General Taylor We. can bea
wing cry and him too, without SANDER
ing either. ssai sfs asl1 70 ,g5aa) szd
r. Gen. Cass has been soldier, an.