Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-07-30
The Ladies ON the war.

Duly impressed with sense of the great
evils which must result to themselves and
their families and friends, from an adop-
ton Of the dangerous policy recommend
and advocated by some Of the unscrupu>
lous Lincoln papers, the ladies of New
York have put forth an appeal to the pat
riOtic omen Of the free States. copy of
which We here publish, believing that it
will have a salutary influence:
10 The Rdtriotic Women cfhe Free States:
The fact can no longer be disputed that
the policy Of the Republican party, as
vowed by its organs Of the press in this
city. is nothing less than war Of exter-
mination. Those editors, in their sanguin>
airy zeal, far outrun our acknowledged mil
itary leaders. They now insist upon IN
conditional emancipation of the sllvts
throughout the Union by the Federal Gov
srnmsnt. suggesting confscatioD, and the
promoting Of slave resurrection, az the
means by which they hope to carry out
II cir schemes. President Lincoln has de-
clared TO individuals in this city his con-
viction that confscation is illegal, and that
the position taken by General Butler in no.
gard to fugitive slaves cannot be constitu-
tionnlly sustained. The pen and ink war
ton; one of them now goes SO far as to say
that 'all the peculiar institution seems TO
want is a leader, when second San Do
mingo massacre will be the inevitable con
sequence They hope also to enlist the
aid of England in the enterprise, aid ex
ult in the prospect of deluging the country,
not only with the blood of her sons, but
that Of her fair daughters and their chill
n nj "a ip
innocent Of having caused the present
national calamities, are yet the greatest
sufferers from them. The burdens of
pecuniary embarrassment-the distractions
Of business-the dem9ralizations Of militia
~ life-the loss of kindred and friends
the sufferings that i,l How in the train Of
civil war-and the disgrace incurred in the
eyes Of civilized nations-fall heavily upon
them. And the terrorism inaugurated by
those who have plunged the nation into an
internicine strife, smothers attempts at re-
nonstrance against it, on the part of the
men not engaged, for these Sepoy editors
define treason to be- the expressing of
preference Of any rule but their own. But
the denial Of citizenship to women-whIch
prevents them from avsrting these calami.
ties-also renders it impossible for women
TO commit treason and leaves them free
20 act according to their judgment. Now,
that the humane instincts Of American
men are beginning TO assert themselves, is
it not the duty Of the whole country Their
home influences give them power that
shoulj be welded for peace. Let no ad
verse action of the Congress about to as
temble, deter them from this merciful en-
terprize. As soon as the general senti.
ment can be so crystalized as to present
effective force. Mr.. Lincoln and his ultra
advisers will be obliged to accept such
compromises as may put an end to the war.
One Of the most unprincipIed of these il
already driven to the declaration that the
people possess the power to clts the gates
Of Janus Woman may do much for peace,
not euly with those who stand in near re-
lation n them, but with the ignorant of
their household and neighborhood, whose
cradulity has been practiced on to subserve
the sanguinaTy purposes of those anxious
70 prolong the war. To the young, espec
tally, they owe ito mark and condemn
the reasonable teachings alluded to, and
to show as in glass what the future histo-
rian will record. Many Of them use the
pen to transcribe the events of the day,
and take their place among the best histO>
risns and instructors Of the people. Let
none fail in their duty to those who must
m future rule the country and its destinies.
II 10 our misfortune to be the cotempora
ries Of traitor to humanity who is chiefly
responsible for the present lamentable state
Of public affairs; whose boast it is that he
has trained generation to hatred of the
South whose unceasing libels and irritat
ing assaults have goaded SOutherners into
disaffection and weakened the fraternal
bonds that ought to have been sacred for
ever who now gloats over the fearful
spectacle of nation-h:s nation in its
death agouies, and safe at a distance from
the conHict-in which be would, on no
account, venture his own rerson--scatters
abroad his ferocious dia-tribes, and coolly
recommends barbarities banished thous
ands Of years ago from the war fare of
civilized nations While other tyrants
have INDUCED their vindictive passions
against alien foes, it has been reserved fer
Horace Greely--for whom history has no
parallel m the meanness Of wick edness-to
iEstigRte atrocities against his own country
woman, simply on account Of their help
lessness. Let every woman. however fee
bic may be her voice, use it 70, the en-
couragemont Of brave men to withstand
savage crusade-till chorus, in manly
tones swell over all the free States, Down
with the Traitor Greeley Down with the
Sspoy Republicans =