Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-02
From the Chicago Times.
Opening Their Ewes.

VI luO AfOuOSidtlS patty WHICH uhs 81 Oitcu {
held the bitter cup of defeat TO thoir anx-
ious and expectant lips, these embittered !
partisans seized successfully every weak
point and every passion of the human heart, !
to overthrow their enemies. They neither
paused nor reasoned in their implacable
thirst for triumph and revenge. They APP (
pealed to every passion, without thought
of the disastrous and demoralizing effects
Of their course uDon the Institutions and
people of the country. As one by one the
malignant shafts were torn from their
grasp, they but renewed the fury of their
onset, and with reckless audacity aban-
dOned their untenable positions; and, un
der new names and with exultant shouts
awakened by new prejudices and passions,
rushed to the conflict. Baffied and de-
feated in many forms, they allied themselves
TO the most obstinate, unreas0ning impIa-
cable, impracticable and destructive ism
that ever cursed a free people. Fanatical
abOiitl0nisnI, in defiance of opposition, de-
feat and even persecution, had gained
fOothOld in the Northern States, frGm
whence it could command the balance of
power between the great parties of the
country. Into the bosom of this fanaticism,
with all its blind hatred, its reckless moral
treason and prurient atheism. they rushed
with TIE hope Of shaking, at least once,
their burning thirst for power and their
still more fiery thirst for revenge Here
tofore they had been compelled to meet the
indignant opposition and the power of
those classes against whom they sought TO
arnuse the fury of the multitude, al their
own doors. HencefOrth they could pour
nll their venom and falsehOod upon the
heads Of men, who from their distant homes
could never be heard in their defence be-
fore our masses. By the most reckless
system Of wholesale denunciatjon aud mis-
cradle lying or the ole hand and the most
maddening and demagngueal appeals to
local passions and false appeals to our love
OF liberty and humanity, they bore down
the ranks OF the Democracy, and left the
bulwarks Of tue Union and the Constitution
pros trate at the feet of a reck less army Of
fanatics and political vandals. Truth was
traduced and denounced as treason TO our
section; and every sincere appeal to
the honest and patriotic hearts of the peo-
pie was drowned in the million-yniced roar
of accumulated passion, selGshness and Sec
tional hatred. The triumph of madness
was complete. The Republicans rode vic
toriVus into power upon the breath Of pub
lie passion and over every principle held
sacred in government Of equality and con.
stiutional liberty.
But in proportion to the utter intoxica-
ton OF the public mind has been the PROS
trati0n and ruin which has followed The
party had not reached the seat of power.
before their very approach, like the tabled
Upas, 5reathed pestilence and death. The
Union Of our fathers, so long and Justly
cherished by our now deluded people,
melted away at their hideous approach
Do
grafton have followed the line Of their
march. More things have occurred to un.
nerve the heart of the patriot and bring
shame and reproach upon our country and
liberty, in six months, than had harpened
since the battle Of Concord. As Gitaster
after disaster pressed upon us from within,
the infatuated spoilsmen laughed, and
Knocked, and denounced, while with 2
greedy hand they signed the Morrill, tariff
bill to grind the labor Of the country. I,
oil the already greasy joints of the New
England lords Of the loom, and made a
deadly stab at our influence with foreign
governments at n moment when we needed
1t most. The ReyolutOniSts of the South
were derded and jeered at, and the people
of the North were told that when the
Second jackson" took the helm. the Shin
OF State would instantly right up. treason
would be crushed, the integrity Of the gov
eminent be maintained, and political iu-
bilee be inaugurated--a sort of " fifth mon.
archy would follow this wonderful event.
MIR. Lincoln has been inaugurated near one
month-and how have all these golden de.
lusions fed The revolution has gained
strength and consistency every hour
They admit themselves that, after all their
hooking and depreciation, the Southern
Governments: has exhibited wonderful di-
rectness purpose, statesmaLship, wisdom.
firmness, prudence and courage. Il Is IN
ceniable that the hope that foreign gov
ernments would ignore their nationality
grows beautifully less, aided by the abom-
Unable prohibtory tariff Of the Republicans.
1t is certain that the United States cannot
long hold one foot Of the Territory in the
Confederate States. The whole business Of
the country suffers immensely already. and
has an almost hopeless future. The Pres
ident, yacillating between a sense cf DUTY
and the favor of the men who placed him
In power, knows not what to d., and stands (
oscillating between his party and his coun
try. The only object that seems to meet
with favor is the deeapitaton Of old officers
and the division Of the spoils among the
hungry thousands who crowd the capitoI.
These facts are beginning to open the .
eyes of the people to the terrible delusion .
under which they have rested. The facts
OF the present are beginning to obliterate
the promises and falsehuoas Of the past.- I
The people will no longer be deludei. Mr..
Lincoln must learn very soon that the ut
tempt to maintain the into gritty of the Re-
publican party is hopeless. and that the
carrying out of the principles upnn which
1t forced ITS way into power is utter ruin to
the country at home and abaaG. Dir. Lin
coin should no longer suffer his policy to
be hampered by considerations Of party
The peace policy must be iBaugurated in
its fullest extent. Concessions must be
made, Thankfully and manfulIy to the ne
cessities of the times, and justice be ten
dered the Southern States in full. The
Morrill, tariff must be rubbed out, as with
sponge, from the statute books, and a counter
free trade system established as a protec
ton against Southernimportation These
things should be done, and done speedily,
or else our Union is lost forever, and our
whole commercial and manufac urinc sys
tenn will receive blow which il will re
quire years to recover from.
If Lincoln would now take a bold course
the Northern peoule have their ewes sufi
GENTLY opened to sustain him manfrily.
Repeal the Tariff.