Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-03-05
The TWO Extremes

South Carolina has seeded. New
England is in blaze Of loyalty. Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Flor.
ida have seeded. New England and
Judge Norton, a native of New England.
all declare they have no charity for trait
ors and disunionists.
In 1875, the Hartford Connecticut Cou-
rant published the following:
Negroes are in all respects, except in
regard to life and death, the cattle Of the
citizens of the Southern States. If they
were good for food, the probability is that
the power of destroying their lives would
be enjoyed by thei- owners.
I'VE have reached a critical period in
our political existence. The question must
soon be decided whether we 1.-THE Northl
shall continue nation at the expense Of
even cur Union.
Lation, without any connection with the
| Southern"
In the time of the embargo, the town of
Gloucester, Mass, among others, passed the
following:
" ResoIUed, That to our STATE oorernment
We Look for counsel, protection, and relief,
| at this awful period Of general calamity"
/ Such resolution down South now " oui "a
/ smell of secession. The town of Bath.
Maine, called upnn the legislature. either
/ dy themselves alone, or an concert Nth other
| commercial States, to relieve the people
I against the embargo. Strike out the word
commercial" and insert slave" ard IL
would now make q most excellent SyutheIn
secession resolution
Boston declared the embargo unconstitu.
tional, and called on the State Legislature
to set 1t At defiance
Listen to a town meeting, in Augusta,
Maine:
We know, If the embargo be not re
moved, our citizens will ere long. set Us
penalties and restrictions at defiance. /,
behooves Us 20 speak, for strike zee must. II
speaking DIES not answer"
This is threatening to take the forts.
In the United States Senate Mr.. Hill
house, of Connecticut, said of the embargo
consider this To be an net to which
the people are not bound to submit. and Ia
which, IN my opinion, they urM not sub
nit"
This is either secession, notification. or
higher law.
On the bill for the admission Of Louis.
lana, Josiah Quincy. member Of Congress.
from Massachusetts,, said:
IL this bill passes, it Is my deliberate
opIhlpn thdt TX Is virtually q dissolution Of
the Union; thati, will free the States from
their moral obligation and as it wilt be the
right OF all, 50 it will be the dHfg of so,g,.
to prepare for a separation, aInicably. If
they can, violently, if they mustD See
National LateHigenccr, January Is. 1911.
Where Josiah QIIncy stands to dav. we
can learn from the following short extrae,
OF hi letter to Charles Sumner. dated Bus
ton, June, 5, 1860:
=" have read enough to approve and re-
Joice that you have been permitted thus
truly, fully and faithfully to expose the
baTnarism Of slavery"
Did our government 20 down with FIRE
and sword upon those people, ard ob!iter-
( ate them from the face Of the earth with
shells and military destruction Far from
1t. She left them to the sober second
thought, and now they are the most earnest
! Union States. Can we not well afford 10
/ try the same experiment upon the errinp
! Sputh? With all their faults. every State
adds to the glory of the nation. He il a
dangerous man who belieyes ore can he
obliterated without irreparable mischief 70
/ to our country.