Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-01-01
To the People OF the NORTH
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nearing the tremendous abyss beneath,
with an evenness and certainty Of motion
tina. chill the heart Of the beh0lder. Civil
war stares us in the face; q war, the hor-
rors Of which no pen can describe, and the
end or results Of which no man can forese.
We have been so long happy under our
glorious Union, that il is almost impossible
for us to even remotely conceive the miser-
les that await us
How this yawnipg gulf is to be closed M,
no man can tell. A National Convention,
fresh from the people. would, as we verify
believe, save the country but how to get
Nation al Convention we know not The
Northern Demt Gratis and conservatives, W ho
have so long ard nobly breasted the storm
Of fanaticism and borne al0ft the rights of
; the whole Union, have at last been over
borne. and the Abolition cohorts haze
siezed the governments over the ruins Of the
Constitution The Democracy, thus dis
astrously defeated, seem 10 be unconscious
Of the enormous power they still possess,
and stand appalled, in the presence Of The
coming catastrophe. The Republican,
half gratifed at the terrible mseries and
butcberies they would be enabled to infiict
on the Southern people, half unconscious
Of the terrible future,they are creating. and
wholly and stphbornly bent on maintaining
their political a. rondency-are every day
widening the gulf that yawns before us
By the most superhuman efforts they bird
the people to coming events. They meek
and gibe about the impotence Of South
Carolina, when they must know that in this
struggle South Carolina will be but one of
fifteen States, who will unite their destinies
for veal or woe forever. They pirate about
the execution Of lars, in the face Of ter
rife REVOLUTION, that is TO rend the conti-
neni asunder lin a word, they fiddle and
dance, and SWIVEL, and make mouths, when
the Republic is in flames.
People Of the Northwest, We again tell
you that these men are more deadly enc
mics Of you. and more deadly enemies of
themselves, than was ever Druse TO Chris
tisn or Samaritan tn Jew. They have re-
solved to see this Union perish, freighted
with all its hopes, rather than yield to the
Southern people ihose rights which have
been their birthright, and which are absu>
Intely necessary to their safety and peace
They have resolved to plunge tho country
into an inhuman and hopeless civil war,
for the sole sake OF REVENGE Every word
that reaches us confirms the belief that the
Republican party are deliberately closing
their ears to every voice raised by Northern
Democrats and Southern conserya tiyes to
save the country
The crisis has already brought the great
men OF the past-such men as Willard
Fillmore, Chief Justice Shaw, of Massa-
chuset1s, and Martin Van Buren-into the
field of council their appeals are met by
speech from that old boary headed sinner.
William Ii. Seward. half humorous and
half serious" and by the pleasant bar
room stories of Old Abe
Democracy of The North You must act!
The voice Of million and half Of freemen
may yer be Potent for god. Let US, by
State Conventions. call the Democracy to-
Rether, ard DEMAND TO BE HEARD. Let us
not be plunged into hopeless and inhu-
man civil war. where we shall be com pelied
to inbrue our hands in our brothers blood,
without at least making an effort to stay
the disaster, or entering uur PROTEST upon
the records of Chicago Times.
MIR. Crlffenden's Compromise.
As is well known, Mr.. Crittenden, the
veteran Senator from Kentucky, is strongly
in favor of an amicable settlement of the
difficulties which threaten disaster to the
country. The following compromise was
presented to the Senate Committee of thir-
teen by him, but was voted down by the
Black Republicans:
Resolved, That by the Senate and House
Of Representatives, the following article be
proposed and submitted as an amendment
~ the constitution, which shall be valid as
part Of the constitution when ratified by
the conventions of three fourths Of The peg
pie Of the States:
First. Ia all the territories row, or here.
after acquired north of latitude SO deg. 80
min, slavery or involuntary servitude, ex.
cept for punishment Of crime is prohibited,
while IN all the territories south of that,
slavery is hereby recognized rs existing,
and shall not be interiered with by Congress
but shall be protected as property by all
departments OF the territorial governments
during its continuance. All the territory
north or south of said line, within such
boundaries as Congress may prescribe,
when 1t contains population necessary for
8 member Of Congress, with a republican
form Of government, shall be admitted into
the Union on an equality with the original
otates, with or without slavery, as the con
stitution of the State shall pre- scribe.
Second. Congress shall have no authority
70 abolish slavery in the States permitting
slavery.
Third. Congress shall have No power to
hinder slavery 10 the District of Columbia,
while it exists in Virginia or MARYLAND. or
either; Dos shall Congress at any time
prohibit the officers of the government or
members Of Congress. whose duties require
them TO live in the District of Columbia.
Hr.a hHIpa ais.u
them "a such.
Fourth. Congress shall have no power to
hinder the transI OrtstiOn Of slaves from one
State to another, whether by land, naviga.
BILE river or sea.
Fifth. Congress shall have power by law
TO pay an owner who shall apply for the full
value of a fugitive slave in all cases where
the marshal is prevented from dIscharei ing
his duty by force or rescue made after ar
rest. In oil such cases the owner shall
have power to sue che county in which the
violence or rescue was made, aud the
county shall have the right to sue the iudi
vidual who committed the wrong ia the
same manner as the owner could sue.
Sixth. No future amendment or amend
nents shall affect the preceding articles,
and Congress shall never have power To
"'O''Oio WIN oid'eiJ hiluih tue states
where 1t is now permitted. The last
resolution declares that the Southern States
have right to the faithful execution Of
she law for tie recovery Of slaves, and that
such laws ought net to be repealed, or at
least be modified SO as to impair their
efficiency; all laws in conflict with the
fugitive slave law it shall be deemed i'm
proper for Congress to ask the repeal of !;
the fugitive slave law ought ~ be 50
altered as to make the fee of the commIs
sioner equal, whether he decides for or
against the claimant; aud the clause
authorizing the person holding the warrant
to summon posse comaatus to be so
amended as to restrict it to case where
violence or rescue is attempted the laws
for the suppression of the African slave
trade ought to be effeetually executed.
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