Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-19
who are the Traitorsr

Those who would give correct answer
to this question, must be conversant with
the history of political parties at the North.
And any person thus qualified wiz not be
at loss to decide who are The real traitors
in this portion of the confederacy, and upon
whose shoulders the responsibility should
fall for the present appalling condition of
our national affairs.
The Republican leaders. with few such
honorable exceptions as Seward, Cameron,
Kellogg, and such like patriotic men, bold
" and detiantly declare that they will make
no concession, that come what will they
will not yield one iota, but will stand upon
their iIrepressible conflict platform and
fight the South into submission atthe point
of the bayonet. This is the avowal Of the
Illinois State Journal, Lincoln's accredited
organ, and of Wade and lesser Republican
lights in Congress, including all the Repub.
leans from this State, excepting Judge
Kellogg.
Thus we see a party here at the North,
while the Union is Fastening to destruc-
ton, Indifferent to every thing excepting
their own narrtw and abstract views
While the work of separation is going on
while State after State is seeding from
the Confederacy, and the noble govern
mental structure purchased by our patriotic
sires at such cost and sacrifice is crumbline
to pieces, these mercenary party leaders
are deaf to iutreaty and blind to everything
else except their own party platform and
the spoils of Office.
Yet these no-copcession Republicans
have the audacity to apply the charge OF
traitors to Northern men who are will
ing to meet the South with honorable terms
of Cancellation and compromise in order tc
preserve the country from ruin and newt.
able civil war. 1t is they who have
brought the calamity of dissolution upon
US. 1t is they who have driven seven
States out of the cunfederacy 1t is they
who now refuse to consider just terms fu1
peace. Yet they call US traitors Was
ever duplic.ty and impudence carried sc
! far?
| The South believing that it is the pur-
pose of the dominant party to Cypress them
and to deprive them of their constitutional
rights, are uniting and preparing 20 seek Il
remedy in separation, or revolution and
blood, if need be. The Democrats and
conservative Republicans, without enuuir-
/ ing whether their complaints are reasona-
bic and well founded, are willing to meet
them in fraternal, conciliatory spirit, and
agree to an honorable adjustment of the
| difficulties but tie great mass of the Re-
publican leaders and office seekers are
opposed to any compromise, and are de-
terminea to furce the South into submission
by the strong arm OF government and oow-
er. The issue is compromise or war; and
while the Democrats choose the former
nothing will satisfy the Republicans but
war and the shedding of blood.
Now, in view of the present position oil
affairs, we would inquire who are the real
traitors that are hurrying the country to
destruction and ruin? Who but the Black
Republican leaders have brought it to the
brink of precipice from which every true
| patriot should shrink with horror? There
1 fore, we proclaim the fact that the Repub
/ lican leaders are as much traitors to the
country as are the extremists of the South