Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-23
PLAINFIELp. April l6. 1861.

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PLAINFIELD, April l6, 1861.
GEsTs;-For the sake, of killing rats and
other vermin about my premises, and the
lice on my cattle, have allowed your pa
per to clme to me thus far-for the id
thing is so poisonous it will kill yermin at
forty rods much quicker than dos, of
strychnine-but now | want it Stopped
There is no beast hate as bad as a Tory.
and you are the d-dest lying Tories on
the earth except the editors of the Times.
If was not that most of your readers were
as ignorant as horseblccks, and know moth.
ing only what they get from your paper
and that other issue of He'll, the Times, it
would not do SO much damage in these
times but some may think you sometimes
tell the truth In regard to present state of
| things, and hence the damage. Now the
| idea you wish to convey to YOUR readers
that Abe Lincoln and the Republican party
are to blame for tue political troubles. and
the currency too, when you know, ard ey-
erybody of sense knows, and are liars when
they say 1t is not 81, that the miserable,
rotten, traitorOurs Democratic party have
sold the country to a set of thieves and rob-
bers, the equal of whom do not exist on the
| globe; that they robbed the treasury, tried
to ruin the credit of the country SO it could
! not be replenished stole our means of de
fence ard put them into the hands CT the
robbers, and now you turn around and
charge the Republicans of bringing the
country into civil war, because we won't
move over into the British possessions and
| give up the whole country. Why, ID
you, you ought to be hung on the top of
the Court House by the heels, and if you
don't look out you will get there too. We
all know to much about the Tories of the
Revolution to stand too much at this time.
If tie Almighty would do Justice in the
present case, he would pardon Judas and
Arnold out of Tophet, and put old Buchan.
an there and set both their torments at
him, and build new place seven times
hotter than the old one for his Cabinet and
supporters. Judas was a gentleman and
Arnold an angel by the side Of any OF his
crew, and you know it, and if you had any
manhood about you, you would own it and
not try to lay all the blame on to others
who, you know, are perfectly innocent.
AS to the currency matter, you know
very well that Joel A. Matteson is the faith.
er OF the whole system, supported by a
Democratic Legislatures Just like eve
rythIng he has ever done, robbed everybody
In his reach.
Those that helped kill Gee. Smith & Co.
or rather drove him and six millions of
cash capital from the State have as much
to answer for as any and all others for rob
Oerles that have been committed by bank.
ers and brokers in the last years, and you
was one Of those birds.
The Plainhed Artillery are a GOING
South. Let us see you and your Tory
horde throw them off the bridge. Suppose
nlteen or twenty of you try the Captain
Ii be can't whip as many as that of you,
he won't go South.
A. McALLlSTER.
Now we would suggest to our amiable
correspondent that it would have been more
compatible with those venerable virtues,
honesty and manhood, had he forwarded to
us his Indebtedness for subscription of more
than half score of years, before ordering
the discontinuance of his paper.
Relative to the charge of toryism en-
braced in the above Republican epistle, we
defy any man to show the first line or sem
tence that has ever appeared in this paper
which was not dictated by undevia ting de-
votion to the Union and the constitution
>~"N w OSiAO'O eiiO odulc Can DC Sulu OIL our
respectable cotemporary, the Chicago
Times, and the late Presidentand the larger
portion of his cabinet, so piously alluded to
! by our correspondent But it is needless
for US to multiply words on this point.
In reference to the menacing and cow
ardly threat of this valiant Republican
leader, we are not disturbed in the least
~ barking dog never bites"
But if the gentleman is really as pugua-
cious as his letter indicates, we suggest that
he and his abettors, if he has any, would
be better employed in defending our COM
mon country from the assaults Of its armed
enemies than by hanging Vour humble
selves by the heels from the top of the
Court House-fOr they might find it a less
dangerous undertaking.
And his exhibition OF malignity towards
Gpv. Matteson, will naturally call to the
minds of many of our readers an affair in
which the Merchants and Drovers' bank
in this city was swindled out of six or seven
Thousand dollars.