Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-23
The war,

Civil war has now been fairly commenced
and the country has entered the maelstrom
Of unutterable woes into which the malig-
nant fanaticism and vindictism of Northern
demagogues and Southern traitors has for
years been drifting US. Let the Greeleys,
and Giddings, and Summers, and Loyeioys.
and Yanceys, and Toombses, take their
rest. Their work is accomplished. Po-
litical parsons may now sing their Te
Deums and give praise and thanks; for
the object of their preaching is attained
Americans are arrayed against Americans
the United States are at war with them
selves-and the blood of Americans has
already been spilled in the internecine
strife.
All that will come of it, it is impossible
to tell, as it is shocking to imagine. But
it takes no prophet to forsee that let the
Administration be ever SO successful, the
people of the North and the South cannot
gain either honor, profit, or advantage of
any kind. On the contrary, it is evident
that the prosecution of civil war will be
the ruin Of the present generation.
Americans, unspeakabe horrors stare us
IN the face-the mere apprehension of
which has alre~ An estsafssrdanc with the
well known laws III VI fpolitical economy, par
alyzed trade, put stop to manufactures,
deprived thousands of employment, and
consigned them to suffering and want.
But the depreciation of stocks, the break.
ing of banks, and prostration of business
which has been already experienced, are
only a shadow as compared with what
we shall see when hostilities will have pro
crossed little further. Add to which the
oppressive taxation which we shall all have
to submit to in order to maintain large
standing armies, the rivers of blood which
will be spilled, the sacking of cities, towns
and villages, the destruction of property,
the scenes of robbery, murder and licen-
cious rapine ever inseparable from war,
and we may be able to form faint idea of
what Is before US in case the Administra-
ton persist in cOercing and carrying war
into the territories of the seeded States
And worse than all it is quite likely that
the strife will enter into every town and
viilage-nay, every family in tie North
especially. Then let US consider that after
five or six years of fighting, after millions
of lives will have Leen sacrificed the
country will have been reduced 10 bank
ruptcy and commercial ruin, and the prop.
erty and happiness of every family in the
land Will have been blasted forever, the
quarrel will be no nearer to settlement
than it is at present
We have really fallen upon evil times
when the administration of the country has
fallen into such hands as it it is at present
an administration who will not look be-
yond the interests of the fanatical party
which placed it in power. Ithowever still
rests with the people, who after all are the
source of all power, to prevent, in a great
measure, the terrible scourge which Liz
coin and his cabinet ard JEFF Davis and his
cabinet would seem determined to bring
upon the country.
We believe that the people of the United
States Will yet make known that they have
no wish to involve themselves and the
country in fanatical, devastating civil
war to please the malignant fanaticism of
the Greeleys. Chases, Lovejoys, Beechers,
Yanceys, Toombses, and all that tribe.