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

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 unaui-
NOUS in the. conviction that the preserves
ton of the Union of the States AID the
peace Of the country should he preferred to
every consideration of party. the brood of
Office seekers still persist in placing obsta-.
cies in the way ola 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 Uninn as though
he had never spoken or acted befare."-
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 battle, have their hun.
CRY eyes fixed uron spoils, aud they are
determined TO place every possible obstacle
in the way of compromise Having been the
| tiercest, the most INSCRIPTIONS and most
! faEatical in sowing the seeds Of diseord and
exciting sectional animosity. they imagined
that they had made mark by the violence
of their fauaticism. 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 snve 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 it's abuse of
Seward and Cameron and Kellogg as it
ever was in deuouncing Douglas. And
here in joliet, our cotemporary ofthe True
/ Democrat, seeks to keep up the market
value of secti9nalism in strain, if not as
! able, at least as wicked and mischievous
as that of the Tribune Our neighbor in
iurtherance Of the views of Norton, Streeter
and the other Gffiec 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 a mat
ter of course, leaves US to infer that this
sin OF slavery having been condemned by
the pious people of the North is to be on
posed at every point by the men elected to
govern on the 9Th Of November. Now we
submit to every candid reader that if ex-
preSsinns like this and others found in the
last True Democrat truly represents the
sentiments oI the Republican party, no
! honest man ,whl wishes to he done by AS he
! TDIl1 have others do unto him, can blame
the secessionists Of the South for the course
:hey have taken. Here they are told in
the plalnest terms that the coming admin
/ istration will muct them in q matter. which
however sinful or barbarous. it may be, is
nevertheless Of the most vital importance
to them and have they not acted wisely
and manfully in providing against the
conflict ioreshadowed in the True Demo
! cratf
Buthappily our neighbor only speaks for
himself and few other office seekers. who
surprising that the Abolitionist Loveioy
Will have the disposal of the spoils in this
district, think they will be most likely to
win his favor by the avowal Of such incen.
diary and anti Union sentiments. We are
conident in the hone that the masses of
the Republican party are more truly rep
resented by Seward. Cameron, Kellogg and
otherRepubican leaders who have so noblv
made move towards compromise and
peace.