Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-05
The Crusade against the Union

More than forty six years ago, the epe> |
mics of the American Union began the
excitement which has been maintained |
with varying success up to the present hour.
And now, as then, the stronghold of the /
movement is to be found in the New Eng I
land States. There the Hartford conveu-
ton held its igrominious sessions--a con
vention animated by hostility to the I
institutions of the South, and Of devotion /
to the institutions of Great Britain; sepa>
ration from the American Union being, in /
iSl4, the panacea for the alleged evils which .
the prime movers in Abolition proceedings /
50 bitterly complained.
Passing from this period we como to |
the enactment Of the Missouri Compromises. I
which is well known was received by the
Northern States with almost universal op-
position the Abolitionists lending in the |
excitement just as they did in the move
ment which has brought the present
troubles upon us.
After this, the nation had comparative
peace until the administration of the illus
trious jackson, VIXEN the animosites of
Northern fanatics were again aroused
against Southern institutions. The South
hampton insurrection renewed the animos.
tiles of Aboli,ionism, and was followed by
an organization throughout the Northern
States Of the most extravagant character.
lncendiary appeals were subsequently made
to the slaves to rise up and put their mas
ters to death. Thousands of families in the
South slept amid fearful apprehensions that
a servile instruction would break out and
that the innocent women and children
would be offered up to Gppease the insn-
ciate spirit Of distant fanaticism. The
heroic Jackson threw himself in the breach
to meet the offensive interference in the
affairs of the SJuth, but in vain The de-
mon Of sectionalism bad kindied the fame
and it soon became d ffcult to put it out
Patriotic men in the free States raised their
voices in defence Of the people of the South,
but the malevoleuce of Abolitionism in
vented thousand schemes by which to
keep the agitation alive. Petitions were
poured into Congress from the Northern
States demanding Congressional action
against the institutions of slavery in vari-
Gus forms and on various grounds.
From that moment Congress became at
almost every session the heated theatre of
assaults upon the rights and institutions of
the Southern States. The Democratic
party was enabled, during mos. Of this Pc
Rod of time, to defeat the designs of the
Northern eemagogues, but every new con
test developed new resources and new
powers on the part of the enemies of the
rights of the Southern States. The annex
alton Of Texas added fuel to the flame. and
although that act, so necessary and so just,
was sustained by an immense majority of
the people, yet it was seized upon bv the
Aboiltionists and their allies as a pretext
tor new Outrages. The Mexican war, the
acquisition Of California, the passage of she
Compromise measures, all these, each an
epoch in itself, and each regarded as essen
tial in the preservation and honor, and TO
the extension of the benefits of our blessed
Union, were, in succession, made pretexts
for new assaults upon the Southern States
Thus gradually and persistently have the
slavery agitators Of the North worked
their way, gaining new advantages in eve
ry contest. When the Kansas, Nebraska
bill became Law, all the efforts of the fa-
natles seemed to be concentrated in one
grand simultaneous effort TO overthrow the
government. And at this moment, if we
LOOK over the track Of the past history and
daily events, we shall see how rapidly this
fell spirit of AboIitionism has advanced
until, in the election of Abraham Lincoln,
its work and purposes have been cousum-
mated and the Union destroyed.
Some Of our readers may doubt this when
We say that this Abolition crusade began
SO many years ago, but it is nevertheless
true, as the history of the country will
prove. And when calmly recalling the
record of the past, we cannot fail to be
deeply impressed by the perseverance with
which the series Of operations against the
interests and rights of the South have been
pressed forward, and by the patience Of
the Southern people who have borne against
il.
Now, however, the Southern people have
determined to submit to wrongs and in
Sui's no longer. They are determined
that the agitation shall cease, and that thew
shall have their rights in the common ter
ritorles, or the Union shall oe broken up
10 such terrible crisis has the Abolition
Black Republican crusade against the
rights CT the Southern States brought US.
The Republicans Indignant.