Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-22
From the N. Y. Journal Of Commerce,
Freeing the slaves.

thC FAe1Ntbs
The n. Y Tribune very frankly sums up
the entire argument in favor Of making the
war war OF emancipation. We soppose
no advocate of this policy can be expected
TO add one reason in its favor to these
which have been advanced by its most
steadiast and consistent advocates. Here.
then. is the entire story:
Our own view OF tie matter NAV he
snecinctiy ser firth as fonlws:
|. Slavery is the primary and apimating
cause OF this atrOcious rebellion. which has
not single partisan who is not also n de.
vote OF slavery, while very lew thorSssh
devotes OF slavery are not also patt;sans OF
the REBEL on. But for tlavery there would
not now be a seeded state, nor a regiment
in arms against the Union.
III. The white opponents Of the rebellion
in the states which claim to have s.seded
from the Union are practically silencedz-
temporarily dumb. Thousands of them
have BEEN drafted or dragooned into the
rebel armies: tens Of thousands have been
made to contribute largely to their snb-
stance to sustain those armies. The Union
has scarcely one open advocate within the
territory dominated over by the rebels.
Ill Now !: will be found exeeedipolv
ditheult-we do not say impossible. but
'eiy eiHSuA'-to conquer ten millions OF
people, who, to all practical intents, are
unanimous ir UNFOLDING the rebel cause
But, let decree OF emancipation 90 forth
from the national capital, and four Of these
ten millions are at once transformed into
ardent and active allies of the iudiyisible
republic. They will hear Of such decrae
within fortnight after its issue, and will
know how they are affected, and from that
moment the monstrous rebel lies that the
Unionists mean to kill them, sell them to
Cuba, colOnize them as slaves in Central
America. &c, will be as the idle wind
They viii be constantly planning escanes
to points occupied by the Union forces, the
dominant race will be compelled to distr0st
and watch them. and will be paralyzed bv
the fears Of servile insurrections. In short.
from the hour in which the decree of eman.
cipation shall go forth, the four millions OF
slaves will have ceased to be an clement of
strength to the rebellion, and will have be.
come an element II positive and alarming
! weakness"
This reduces the entire subject to one
| question. The Tribune proposes to use the
slaves as ardent abd active allies to the
/ indivisible repui lie" The long and the
short OF the preposition is slave insurres-
ti"n IN the south to put down the rebellion.
This is frank, but it is horrible. When the
/ Fnglish used Indians as allies in the war
with their revclting colonies, the verdict of
| the world pronounced it infamous. When
/ 1t was reported short time since that the
southern armies bad Indians, with scaln-
ing knives and tomahawks, in their ranks
/ the voice OF the nation stigmatized II as
harbarcus beyond credibility, and 90 IL
| proved From the remotest ages, a seryiIe
/ instruction has been regarded as the sum
/ Of all horrors. Yet here we have IL nro-
posed, by a christian Journal, in a civilized
city, in the most enlightened nation of thu
world, aud not only proposed, bnt the
proposition IL made only because it will be-
difficult not impossible, to conquer the re.
belliou otherwise, and to this is added the
remark, if two or three more defeats are
necessary TO educate the loyal mind of the
country up to the decisive point, zoe NAV
regret The necessity, but stall defer to it,
1t is not pretended thot there is any other
object than to secure the slaves as a. ardent
aud GetiUe allies" Ardent, means burn
ing. furious, fierce, relentless, unrestraiped-
Active, means working. sleepless, seeking
opportunities, and using them. Allies
means, on our side in the war, and there
lore enemies to the rebellion. The propo-
sltiJn therefore l. NOT to divert slave uron-
erty, not 20 brighten the rebels by the threat
Of destroying their fortunes, and confscat-
ing or taking away what they own, as the
penalty of rebellion. Ali this the act Of
congress and the old Dunishments of trea-
son already provided for But the pr9po-
sal is to put a knife into tho hands of the
servent, and say Eight your way TO free
DOM" We do not overstate the meaning
of our neighbor's article on this suhiect.e
five do we shall most joyfully correct our
Interpretation, and we beg the editors of
the Tribune to tell us so at once. 1t NAV
be that they have not apprehended the ex-
tent to which their own words 90.
But aside from the barbarism of encour-
aging servile Instructions as a means ~
warfare among Christian people, we pre-
sumo no one can fail 70 see the weakness
OF the proposition. 1t has already been so
thoroughly exposed, that to do so is but a
repetition Of words. The Tribune's reas
sODs may be answered az they are num-
hered, thus;
i, Antl-slavery is the primary cause Of
the rebellion. But for anti slavery there
would not now be seeded state. nor a
regiment in arms against the Union
When the Tribune makes it plain that ala
yery-au existing, passive snbject-is any
more active than anti slavery, as segress-
i've, revolutionary principle, then it might
do to tell men that slavery was more the
cause Il the rebellion than anti-slayery.-
The truth lies between the two. The re-
spops;bility Of the war rests on extreme
men aud extreme principles on both sides.
Who has the greater share we will not now
discuss.
2. True, the Union men Of the South ara
dumb, but proclaim abolition as your war
cry, and their scaled lips will open in
shoots Of defiance; you will thereby make
every man in the south an enemy.
; 3. Instead of your proclamation weake-
ming the southern l0sces. ii would add ten
fold to their strength. The very fact Of
orr adopting Have i6surreetiops AZ part
OF our war material " aid forever unite the
slave states in a war 4 self-preseryatiou.
whose end we might none Of us live to
see.
We do sincerely hope the: the Tribune
will recall this svowal. We search the
pages Of history aud the revealed word Of
+ God, in vain for justification Of the idea,
, o. Palliation Of It's atrocity.
Yankee stratagem.
During the Revolutionary war, two broth.