Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-03-26

oN'F'S O"""S0 ~ III anOtueI vi WHAT tncy
know nothing about.
a German Republicans Expe-
rience.
Messrs Editors Of the Joliet Signal.
SIRs--l am In this country as much as
eighteen years, and ten years citizen OF
the United States, when took ont INV fnll
papers at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. / ney-
er minded eiections much, or had ANYTHING
to do with political business until last
summer, which was not lucky | done so
then. When first come to New York |
worked at the sap and candle business,
because i couldn't speak no English; and
when learned to speak some English and
make little money in New York. came
to Pennsylvania and peddled tinware, and
dine much better for three years.
Times got bad in Pennsylvania and
money scarce, and | sold out my horse.
and wagon and come 20 Illinois and started
to sell cheap clothing and other dry gtods
but net In the same town where now live
and keep store and sell them kind of goods
am here five years, and done well and
made money. done pretty well in Penn
sylyania, too, because worked hard ant
minded my own business, and dore moth
ing but 60 to the polls and vote. Bot las
summer took to politics, which was yer,
foolish, and have much trouble all tn,
time since. Another Dutchman, who wa,
! only three years from the old country. adj
vised me and made me gu into the POLITICS
Twenty times a day he asked me was fo
freedom or was | for siavery-and said
couldn't contradict that all men was borr
free and equal. He said the Democra,
party was all for slavery, and that no on,
but Irish aud Catholics belonged to il. an,
| Douglas was Catholic, and it was the,
thar made the bad times and money scarce
lie told me that every intelligent Dutch
man belonged to the Republican party
for Abe Lincoln would make good times
money plenty, and the States all free. Jus
such stories as this | was told by tn,
Dntehman and other Republicans, and
joined the Wide Awakes on the 9th of Au
gust, 1860 Next day the committee toiC
me as was in the clothing business anC
Joined the club. they were going to give m,
all their custom. and buy all their canes
caps and torches of me. This made m,
feel good and thought I'd make a littl,
something out of it, So sends to Chi
cage for sixty five capes, caps and torches
which cost me S97 so net cash. Prett,
soon when l got them, the Wide-Awake e:
come for their uniforms, for which ask &c
two dollars; but none of them had thu
money to pay, and an influential RepubIi
can said | must let them have them and i
would be all right, and that ha6 a gooC
sight for the nomination for Sheriff, anc
that it was best for me to be clever witt
the boys. That is the way sold then
goods, except one wore myself in the nro
cession when | ought to be minding my
business or in. bed.
But another fellow got the nomination
for Sheriff, and all the Wide Awakes said
ought ta have it. and they promised e
petition Abe Lincoln to make me his post.
master. When the election was over / pnt
up my petition, but no one signed it only
Dutchmen, and hear that the man who
cheated me out of my goods by PROMISING
the nomination for Sheriff, is appointed
postmaster.
Now, Messrs. Editors, sirs, ask YOU
and all other honorable men, was there
ever so mean and dishonest q trick as this
which understand was played last ia II on
hundreds OF Dutchmen, as well as myself
Here we are deceived, cheated and hum
plugged by the rascally Black Republicans
who laugh at us for stupid Dutchmen. rot
without reason, neither.
III l had paid no attention TO their blow.
ing about freedom and slavery and free
soil, and minded my own business, would
be as much as two hundred and fifty dol
lars better off. For, in the first place. I
lost more than ninety dollars Cd the uni
forms, and it cost me more than forty dol
lars for drinks and coal oil and marching
In the Nlde-Awake PROFESSIONS, besides
negiecung the business of my little store.
Three fellows W no owe me have broke
down since the election, because they can
get no price Tor their corn. and lose more
than twenty dollars on the Bank of GRAY
vile and other banks that don't 90 AT par
ANU this Is all because Abe Lincoln was
elected and ID fool enough to join the
Wide-Awakes.
! write this to warn all Dutchmen against
the Wide-Awakes, and to say to them in
future that any party is better than the
Black Republicans, who are thieves and
cheats as know, and have not half enough
of offices for themselves, without thinking
of the Dutch at all.
Instead of Old Abe making the times
better, they are now worse than ever. and
the Union is dissolved, and there is no
more freedom in the country than there
was before do hope that all nv conn.
:rymen who want to get along honest. and
don't want to be cheated and humbugged
like was, will keep clear of the Black
Republicans. Messrs. Editors, send this
to your paper because hope you will print
1t and do good, for it proves the truth of a
prophesy which you made in your paper
before the election, about the bad times and
the broken banks and the dissolution Of the
Union If Abe Lincoln was elected Presi-
Cent. Your ooedient servant.
ISAAC LEWRUM. 3
+. 5. | was talking to three of the lead.
ing Black Republicans to-day, about the
money due me on them Wide Awake mi
lprms' and T they said they knew nothing
about 1t. That's the way the rascals cheat
an honest man out of his goods and money
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New Policy.