Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-22
The Obiect OF fhe war.

Ine ODJect Oh fne war.
Senator Sumner, Owen Lovejoy. the New
York Tribune, the radical Republican press
generally, and the political preachers, pro
claim that tine present war is being waged
for the sole purpose of emancipating the
slaves. They regard it as an Abolition
war. and win be satisfied with nothing short
of the turning loose amongst us of four mil
lions Of negroes.
The radical Republicans are extremely
anxious to make this war subserve their
purposes They want the negroes freed
and are willing to sacrifice honor, home,
peace and country for that purpose. They
care nothing about the happiness of the
country or the sovereign rights of the
States. All they desire is the freedom Of
the slaves. They hail the calamities that
have fallen upon us as the millennium for
which they have preached and prayed and
labored for The last twenty years.
Though the Administration has avowed
that this war is being waeed ito preserve
the government that it may by administer
ed for all as it was administered by the
men who made it," yet the fac. that 80
large portion Of the party that elevated
| it to power cIamor for the emancipation os
the slaves. causes distrust in the minds Of
conservative men as to the results Of the
future. 1t therefore becomes the duty Of
the Administration and every man who is
is not revolutionary emancipasionist to
frown down every attempt to weaken the
faith Of the people in the stability Of our
institutions, South as we'll as North.
We have no doubt that a vast majority
of the people Of the United States will be
| heart and soul with the Government so long
as it Confines its action by the provisions o.
the constitution, and that they will aid
by all the means in their power, the
Inaintena nce Of the law and the suppress
sion Of the rebellion. But if at any time
it shall appear that the original purpose is
the destruction of slavery il the States
|
eminent will find few men to fight its bat
ties. Any one acquainted with the public
sentiment of the country il aware that
neither men or money will be forthcoming
for the war, il once the people be impressed
with the belief that the abolition of slavery
and not the defence Of the Union Is its OBJ
ject.
If by any chance the Government should
be induced by these radicals Of the Greeley
and Sumner school to proclaim the doctrine
Of emancipation, all hope of RECONSTRUCT
ton Of the Union will be crushed out. The
loyal element in Kentucky, Maryland,
Western Virginia, Missouri. and of the Sc
ceded States, would be alienated at once,
and the war would Immediately assume a
form of unutterable horror. II would then
be conflict for life or DEATH Nothing
short of the complete suojugation or exter
mination of the people Of one or the other
carnage. Rapine, and fire, and death
would spread darkness, and ruin, and des-
olation over the faiIest portion of our do
main, to be followed by the destruction OF
constitutional liberty ard the reign of an
srchy and bloody despotisms.
The Administration should repudiate and
ignore every proposition that favGrs the
emancipation of the slaves. The result of
emancipation would be as ruiuous to the
| North as the South Ii would add TO our
population millions of Migrants, and rem
der society a perfec: pandemonium. In the
event of the subjugation Of the South and
the success Of the emancipation policy, is it
not obvious that the four millions of freed
negroes would rush to the North TO be
amongst the people who had been the
means of their liberation? And while
their condition would not We improved the
free white laborers of the North would
have TO compete with them on the same
level. 1t is apprehensiOns like these that
cause go many to be SO interested in the
ohjects of the war Whatever the future
may have in store, We pray that the pres
ent terrible struggle between the North and
the South may not be turned into an Abo
litIon raid.