Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-16
war! WAR;, War,,,

war! War!! War!!!
All hope for peaceable settlement of
our national troubles has expired. The
long suspense is at an end. Our worst
fears have been realized. Wharf.-The direst
scourge to humanity-has actually com
menced. By dispatches given in to days
paper, it will be seen that hosti!ities com
menced OF last Friday morning, and that
there has been hot work in Charleston and
her adjacent f1rtifcatiops since that time
and only the Great Ruler of the Universe
knows what the end will be.
Little thought we six months ago that
our glorious Republic was SO near its down
fall. 1t is true, we we're apprehensive of
tie appalling result, in case the Republican
party triumphed, but we hoped that there
was virtue and patriotism enough in the
people to defeat that party and to save the
country from destruction In this reason
able hope we were disappointed. Section
alism triumphed, and in its triumph the
last hope fed. In vain were the subse-
quent appeals of the venerable Crttenden,
the patriotic Douglas, and other tue friends
Of humanity and the country. The VIC
terious party were deaf to all entreaty.-
They had triumphed on the idea that the
States could not remain part free and part
slave-that they must be all one thing or
all the other-and would listen to no pro-
positions to rescue the country from the
imminent perils. By rejecting the Crit
tenden amendment and the Douglas com
promise, they closed the door to reconcil
iation. And hence we have been plunged
into the horrors of civil war.
Little do the people of this country un-
derstand the terrible import OF the words
| civil war. If they would know the mean
ing of civil war, let them read the histories
of France, England, Scotland. Ireland,
Spain. and Mexico, and therein learn its
desolating and brutal atrocities.
1t is painful and humilating to reflect
that through the madness of sectioualism
North and the reckless stuhbornness of a
portion of the Southern States, we have
been sud- My arrested in our brilliant ca
reer of national prosperity-the Union dis
solved-the country forced into a war of
untold horrors. The fact that we had n
part in bringing about the dreadful state
OF affairs, vii! not protect us from the ap-
paling calamities. The evils will fall
alike on Republicans, Secessionists, Abpli.
tionists, aud Democrats. But there NAV
be day of especial retribution for those
who have been the cause of the terrible
disasters that have been brought upon our
nation.
We are aware that some may censure US
Tor depicting the horrors that surround US.
1t is necessary, however, that people should
be apprised that they may prepare for the
worst The civil wars in England, Scot
land, France, Ireland, and other countries.
warn us of coming events in our own. Fire
and sword, confiscation, forced contribu-
tions, robberies, anarchy and military des
potism will be the order of the day. Our
merchants, manufacturers, mechanics.
farmers and other Industrial classes should
make ready at once to meet the overshad.
owing casualties.
Whatever views we may entertain in
regard to tie causes of this unnatural war,
we hope that the government under which
we live may act wisely from this time for
ward, and be sustained Lincoln is sur
rounded by difficulties of extraordinary
character, and we fear, will listen to the
counseIs of the men who have been the
source of the troubles and ruin, instead of
needing the advice Of such true friends Of
the country as Crittenden, Buchanan,
Douglas, Guthrie, and others, whose patri
otism overbalances their love of party.
In this melancholy position of national
affairs, our sympathies are with the stars
and stripes; but we shall exercise the right
of censuring when we think it is needed -
We are doubtless on the eve of calamity
more terrible than any that has yet befallen
a nation, and it behooves us to act with
caution and be prepared for whatever may
come.