Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-01-29
The folly and Madness o f Black
Republicanisul,

The folly and Madness o f Black
Republicanism.
The Black Republican newspapers and |
leaders, who have been instrumental in
bringing our country to the verge of civil
war, anarchy and ruin, by system of
falsehood and misrepresentation unparal-
elled in the history of civilized countries,
still continue to persist in the same means
of fraud and deceit in order to consummate
the iendsh work in which they have been
thus far only too successful. This is more
particularly the case in Illinois and other
Western States. 10 the East the evil eff
fccts of fanaticism have been already keen.
ly felt and the false doctrines aud large
misrepresentation Of Black Repr jlicans
no longer pass current among the people.
Hence we notice by the newspaper reports
that most hopeful and healthy reactionary
feeling has begun to exist amongst the
people of Boston and other Eastern cities
heretofore only notorious for Black Repub.
lican fanaticism. The action of the people
of Boston in breaking up Wendell Phillips
convention, although bordering little on
mobocraey, shows that the public sentiment
Of that place is at length beginning to run
IN the right direction, and must prove most
consoling and encouraging to every patri-
otto heart.
But here in the West. the stencil from
the old leaven of Black Republicanism has
not yet become so offensive as in New Eag
Hard. All classes in our community have,
no doubt, suffered severely in consequence
Of the triumph of sectionalism our farmers
have lost from fifteen to fifty cents on every
bushel OF corn and grain they have sold,
and every other class has suffered in pro.
portion. But with an enormous crop as
was raised last season, the Unexpectedly
| low prices are not so disastrous.
Owing to this, Black Republieanism is
in better odor here than it is with its dupes
in the East, or than it will be even here
after the fourth of March, when most of
our banks will have gone by the board, and
the panic will bear upon US with ten times
more force.
1t is therefore that we so frequently see
in some Of the Republican papers of this
State innammatory articles which aim to
cover up the mischief already done to the
country in the horrors Of civil war, and
stupid limbs of the devil in the shane of
one-horse lawyers and quack doctors mur-
dering common decency. common sense
and the commonest rules Of English gram.
mar, in speeches, which, if delivered in
Boston, would, beyond doubt, bring down
! public Indignation upon the orators head.
Our Western demagogues suppose that they
can prepare their dupes for the deeds of
| blood and the scenes Of woe which Lincoln's
intended policy of coercion will inevitably
bring upon the country, by continuing
their system Of misrepr esentation and de.
ceit, and by infammatory appeals to the
passions.
Hence the Black Republican papers are
filled with lying stories about outrages com
mitted upon Northern men at the South
about Democrats being ordered to leave
merely because they were from the North,
and Northern Republicans being hanged
purely on account of their principles
| Such caRGrds are to be met with in every
Republican paper one takes up, and are
continually in the mouths Of the dema
gogues who hope to get their share of the
plumber in the general anarchy which must
accompany civil war.
But another point upon which the Black
Republican demagogues are endeavoring
to deceive the people, and one which will
prove more fatally delusiye, is, that the
people of the South are not united uron
secession; that South Carolina is the only
State which will oppose the measures of
coercion at the point of the bayonet, and
that even in that State there is a numerous
party averse to secession. This is what
our Black Republican office seeking dema-
gogues represent. But none know better
than they chat it is far from the truth. They
say that Old Abe will subdue the seces-
slonists in few days as General Jackson
did the nullifers.
Let us undeceire any who have given
credence 70 such assertions by assuring
them Of what no honest man, who has taken
the trouble to investigate the passing events
OF the future, will dare to deny: that the
first shot fred against South Corolina will
be the signal gun for an united and imme-
date muster OF the whole South in battle
array.
Republicans may as well make up their
minds to this first as last: that if they will
persist in whipping in S, nth Carolina, they
will bave to whip not her alone, but every
one of the Southern States.
LOVejOy and Compromise.
BY the Geographic synopsis of the speech
of Lovcjoy, given in to days paper, it will
be seen that he is opposed to compromise
by which the country can be preserved
from war-the must horrible Of caamities.
In other words, he is in favor of a disrupted
Union and thirty three military desnotisms