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

There is,an end to peace and safety in
our once happay land. The red cloud
that has for months hung SO threatingly
on the Southern horizon has burst at last,
and war, deyasting and bloody war actu-
ally exists.
Where peace, happiness and prosperity
prevailed less than dozen days ago, all
is now confusion and strife. Business is
neglected and the strains of martial music
and the tramp of marching soldiers salute
our ears. All is on the stir. Every one
seems excited, and apprehensions of dan
gers and a terrible future, appear to pos
sess each breast. We have leaped with a
bound into new era-an era of civil war.
For months past, we have had the most
mOurnful forebodings in regard to the
rapid approach of events which are gather.
ing our nation into the mealstrom of des-
traction. The reality now promises to be
more terrible than our most fearful appre
Tensions. The thought of Americans be-
ing engaged in bloody conflict with
Americans is SO horrible to contemplate
that every feeling of humanity and patriot
ism revolts at the idea. The strife may
be arrested-and Heaven grant that it
may-before it completely destroys the last
hope of the friends of free government and
equa rights, but we must confess we can
see nothing now on which to rest our hopes
for the future. We can now see no way
of escaping fierce and prolonged inter
neeine war, as unnatural, aimless and as
irretrieveably disunion as it promises to
| be.
We fought boldly and unfinchingly
against the policy that has brought this
appalling calamity upon our nation. We
predicted the terrible results and they have
fallen upon us in all their vengeance. We
might repeat the causes of our calamities.
but why call mp that which is stamped
indelibly on the minds of the people, and
cannot help our condition by rehearsal.
The past cannot be recalled And it is
with sad hearts we recur to it. But, as
Democrats, though we opposed the placing
in power of the present Administration, it
was legally and constitutionally chosen
and we feel it our duty to sustain it in its
efforts to protect the stars and Stripes
Democrats never turned their backs when
the stars and stripes were in danger
Democrats never were disunionists or ira
tors. They have stood by The flag of our
country, when it was assailed by foes with
in and without. They made the Union
and preserved it until sectionalism caused
its overthrow. And though they may not
approve of the present war policy of the
Administration in all its details. yet they
are as ever friends of the old Union and
will not swerve from duty in this time Of
fearful peril.
Conscious that we have done right in
the past, we shall not permit the denounci.
atoms and taunts of men who have for
years past been making vindictive war
upon one half OF our Union, to deter US
from uniting with them in all ostensible
efforts in favor of measures calculated to
sustain the government in all its constitu-
tional rights. Therefore, it is our hope
that the Democratic members of our Leg
islature will join their Republican oppo
nents in voting supplies to assist the Cow
eminent in its present hour of need and
danger.