Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-05-09

thusiastIc regard for the name and char.
acter of the Hon. LEVI WOODBURY..
We can never forget the ability and firm.
ness with which he administered the treas.
ury department of the government during
the panic crisis, nor the energy and pow
er with which he resisted the odious tariff
Of '42. His eminent public and private
worth, his gigantic intellect, bis republican
simplicity and proVerbial courtesy eonsti-
tute combination of qualities which pc.
culiarly fit him for the highest station in
the peoples gift. In the event Of his nom.
ination by the, Baltimore convention, he
will receive our earnest and undivided
support. 81. sis, 81 ags 5eS! noe .ie}
Resolved, that it is with mingled feel
ings ofregret and contempt that we review
the course of the whig party in Congress
since the commencement of the present
war. A beautiful illustration oftheir well
known consistency, political integrityA end
sagacity Is furnished by q comparison of
their votes. in one of which, on the 18th
of May, 1916, they declare that "var ex.
lists by the act of Mexico" and In the
other, on the Sd of January, 1898, tina, IT
was "unoonstitutionally and unnecessary
ly begun by the President" An illustra-
ton equally happy is found In the course
of that man whom they try to follow tho
| all his mysterious windings, and whose
behests they are ready to obey, though
he tell them to write "lieI and traitor on
their own brows; the man who little more
Than year ago in New Orleans, wished
for some ''nook or corner 10 the army"
that he might have opportunity "to capture
or STAY MexIcan," and thus "help to
svenge the wrongs of his injured country"
and yet few months since ct lexington,
denounced that war as ''unholy, unjust.
and unconstitutional" a.# a.
Resolved, that the course and conduct
Of Mexico towards the government and
citizens of the United States has been
uniformly and continually perfdious and
base that not content with violating re-
peatedly the most solemn treaty obliga-
tons, with robbing and imprisoning our
citizens, she finally forced upon US the
dread alternative OF war, By pouring upon
our soil the armed and perenzied victims
of her lawless ambition that the annex.
alton of Texas was an aoG of true philan-
thropy, as well as sound national policy,
and not infringing in the remotest degree
upon the rights of any other nation; and
that the course pursued By the whig party
in characterizing it as an outrage upon
Mexico, and the war which they voted TO
exist by the act of Mexico. an act Of
atrocity on our part, serves only to pro-
long the contest, inspire the Me1icans
with confidence, and identify the whig
party of '48 with the factious fedeTalists
of 1912. -el
Resolved, that the wing party, though
they dare not openly avow IL, are never.
theless hostile to the present tariff and the
independent treasury, and favorable to the
re-establisbment of the unjust tariff of '42.
national bank, and system of lavish
expenditure by the general government
for purposes Of local and unconstitutional
Improvements that their success in the
approaching presidential campaign would,
in our opinion be followed by an immedi-
ate attempt TO demolish those admirable
financial structures which tha present
administration has 80 sssiduously reared.
and revive upon their ruins their own
exploded and of condemned schemes.
Resolved, that we are totally indifferent
as to whom the vhig national convention
may select as its standard bearer in the
approaching strife, whether il be the man
of such an endless and inconTenieat con.
trariety Of sentiments upon all questions
ofnational conceEn or the man who boasts
that he has not, never had, and never will
have any opinions upon any subject
of a civil nature in either or neither case
we are convinced that the triumph of
democratic principles, whoever their
chosen exponent may be, will be az sig.
nal and complete in the approaching cam
paign as in that memorable struggle which
resulted In the reelection Of the patriotic
JACKSON. ...s. go.
Resolved, that as the frlends of civil
and religious freedom. snd the enemies of
all "holy alliances" for unhoIy ends, we
hail with sentiments OF unboundsd gIati-
tude and admiration the late splendid
struggles Of the French and other nstions
of Europe against the slsvish mA1ims of
their corrupt and oppressive governments,
and the efforts Of infatuated Tulsvs 20 keep
their subjects in ignorance & submission.
May all these movements be eminently
successful In teaching men to whom pow
er has been delegated the danger of
resisting ths call for improvement. or
trampling ruthlessly upon the image Of
God. May the sword continue TO blaze
above the wreck Of royalty and the des-
truction Of the enemies Of man, until all
Gods children shall have attained the
entire possession of those rights which
are their due, and until the last throne Of
the last .yrani shall have been dashed to
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