Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-12
DO the once Seekers truly Ex-
press the views of the Repub-
lican NTassas

DO the Office Seekers truly Ex-
press the views of the Repub-
iican Masses
1t is truly deplorable, that, while the
ablest and most conservative and patriotic
men Of the Republican party are unani-
NOUS in the conviction that the preserves |
ton of the Union of the States ard the I
peace Of the country should he preferred to /
every consideration of party, the brood of
Office seekers still persist in placing obsta7
cles in the way Of a peaceable settlement
of our difficulties.
Judge Douglas on the part of the Demo
cratic leaders has declared himself ready
to "speak and act for the Union as though
he had never spoken or acted before
Senators Seward and Cameron, Judge
Kellogg of this State and several other
leading Republicans have heroically accept.
ed the proposal; and upon the spirit of
high toned patriotism and Cancellation
thus manifested by the true men of the
country, do millions of American citizens
base their hopes for the preservation of the
Union.
But there is gang of harpies in the
Republican party, who. ike buzzards how
ering over field of hattie, have their hun
CRY eyes fixed upon spois. and they are
determined TO place every possible obstacle
| in the way ofcnmpromise Having been the
fercest the most INSCRIPTIONS and most
faratical in sowing the seeds Of dseord and
exciting sectional animosity. they imagined
that they had made mark by the violence
of their fanaticism. But now they begin
to fear that if wise and more moderate
course of policy should be adopted, their
fanatical antecedents together with their
claims upon Office would be ignored and
repudiated. And hence they are loud in
their clamor for coercion, and abuse Of
those who by Cancellation and compromise
W ould save the country from the disasters
Of civil war.
These vultures are fairly represented by
such papers as the Chicago Tribune. which
is now almost as violent in its abuse of
Seward and Cameron and Kellogg as it
ever was in deuorucing Douglas. And
here in joliet, our cotemPorary ofthe True
Democrat. seeks to keep up the market
value of sectignalism in a strain, if not as
able, at least as wicked and misehievous
as that of the Tribune Our neighbor in
furtherance Of the views of Norton, Streeter
and the other Gfiec seekers of the city de-
nounces the Crittenden amendment and all
other measures Of compromise with traitors
and rebels; declares that the people of the
North decided on the 9th Of November that
slavery was contrary to the laws of God
and the laws of civilization, and. us mat
ter of course, leaves us to infer that this
sin OF slavery having been condemned by
the picus people of the North is to be OPP
posed at every point by the men elected t.
govern on the 9Th of November. Now we
submit TO every candid reader that if ex
pressinns like this aud others found in the
last 1iTe Democrat truly represents the
sentiments OF the Republican party, no
honest man, who wishes to he done by, as he
would have others do unto him, can bIame
the secessionists of the South for the course
they have taken Here they are told il
the plainest terms that the coming admin
istration will mulct them in matter, which
however sinful or barbarous. it may be, i,
nevertheless Of the most vital importance
to them and have they not acted wisely
and manfully in providing against the
conflict soreshadowed in the True Demo
crdts
But happily our neighbOr only speaks fol
himself and few other office seekers, WHO
surprising that the Abolitionst Loveioy
will have the disposal of the spells in thus
district, think they will be most likely t,
win his favor by the avowal Of such incen.
diary and anti Union sentiments. We are
confident in the hone that the masses O.
the Republican party are more truly rep
resented by Seward, Cameron, Kellogg and
otherRepubican leaders who have so nohl,
made move towards compromise and
peace.