Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-16
To You who Read.
when the time comes.

men the time comes.
Should this country pass softly through
the present crisis?
Should fanaticism and delirium be re-
membered as things that were?
Should we ever, when primus inter mar
ms first among the great nation, search
ingly review the real origin of the danger
Should 1t be asked, erquocungue captte,-
from what cause did all this spring. then
viii il be answered clearly and truly by the
scholar of the coming age, that the great
beginning and the continued aggravation
OF the curse was in tolerating the existence
OF that vast number Of vile leeches, con-
temptible cormorauts, remorr, TITE BAR
NAoLES. PARASITES, what you will that is
base and bloodsucking--in short, of politi-
clans. There's where the curse lies.
For years past congress has been a great
cock pit, where men of small talent aud
great bombast. quarrel over the negro
They spit aud snarled. swore, and some
times fought, and the whole country thought
- such q beautiful thing. Such an I'm
t,ensel le1p9ytanee So exeitings. business
s<as sneiysd---tacked out q - way among
committees-the lobby sprung up into rank,
riotous luxuriance-no matter-the Negro
the Negro, the everlasting Negro was all
in all-and Buncombe and squabbling and
gas went shares with him.
But the politicians hourished. Oh, it
WAS grand for them. The more they
sqabbled 50 much the more they swindled
Like pickpockets at fair, they got up
fights to cover rascality.
Hard words. hey? AS the Lord liveth
there is not one word here spoken which
will not appear as solemn truth in future
history.
The North has been drunk and the South
mad with ,his stuff of politics. Every
youth south Of Mason and Dixon's, who had
an average coon's sense devoted himself to
Pol tics, PATRICK HENRY, and the Reso-
buttons, and speeding and debating. So
that 1t at last became very true, as some
body boosted year or two ago, that every
boy oftwelve there, knew more about the
history OF Southern politics than the college
bred men OF the North did Of their own.
1t was true enough, too; much Joy we
wish them OF the knowledge. But they are
not so well posted as Mexicans and Chilans
are in the important history of their own
pronuncidmentOs. To be sure Chilenos
can't generally read. No inlporte!
Now we have sowed the wind and are
reaping the whirlwind. A devil of one
IL IT, tOO nope you ike IL.
Now just let it be remembered-and the
sooner you begin to digest the fact the bet
ter-we shall get out of this mess to little
purpose if we are going straight back to the
rule of the Old Hacks, or of any politicians.
! What we want is business men to do bust
ness-nOt speech makers and gladiators.-
Diplomacy is changing rapidly abroad
the old Camerilia corruption is giving way
to political economy and educated business
management.
But before this can be done, the men of
the United States-very probably. you who
read this among The numLer-must learn
to disuse much of your national gasconade,
self conceit, strut, vain gloriousness, bragg
| CART, ghfalutenism, and impertinet yaunt
ing-and, in short, spread eagleism of all
kinds. We have had great deal too much
of it, and you have made It, and not merit
the test Of qualification for Office 1t must
all be stopped. You have Disguised sense
with your atrociOus vanity, and reflected il
in your precious politicians. And now, in
the time of need, you see what the wind.
bags are made of Let there be a general
sweep, general clear out, and in future
an age of new principles and of new ard
solid men. Give us reelection, new rep
resentatives, and fresh start Tanity
Far.