Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-12-24
The Cause Of the Dispute and
the Remedy.


The Cause Of the Dispute and
the Remedy.
1t cannot be denied with truth that the
cause Of the present terrible state Of affairs
IN this nation is the confict of opinion in
regard to slavery. One section Of the coun-
try believes that slavery is right and that
the citizens of all the States are entitled to
equal privileges in the common territories.
while large majority of the other section
believe that it is wrong and that citizens OF
the slaveholding States have no right to
remove into any territory belonging to the
United States with their slaves and claim
the protection guaranteed by the national
constitution to that species of property.
Our views nn this question have been so
! often expressed that it is not necessary for
us To repeat them However, as Rppub-
lican newspapers have so much to Say
about the cause of our troubles and the
remedy for them, we shall occupy brief
space to-day in discussing the subject.
Long before hostilities commenced, we
predicted the result Of the crusade against
the institutions Of the Sruth. Our predc-
tions are being fearfullv fulfilled. Abo
itioniSm has driven the people of the South
TO desperation. Peace no longer reigus in
our llnd. The agitation, the widespread
commercial disaster, and the bloody battle
fields of our distracted country. tell tale
of woe such as has been survived by few
nations.
At the proper period we did all we could
70 prevent the triumph of the baneful
cause Of Abclitionism. We talked against
it, wrote against it, and voted against it,
but haIiucination seemed to possess the
minds Of Northern men and the crusade
against slavery was kept up until the South
rcsorted to the dread alternative of war, to
preserve its rights. 1t is not necessary to
enter into discussion as to whether the
people of the SIuth had just cause for their
rash course. Indeed, we believe, they had
not. But at the same time we Garnet ex-
culpa.e those who forced the disasters uron
us-and must hold them up before our read
ers occasionally that they may understand
who are mainly chargeable with our mis-
fortunes.
The Abolitionists. not satisfied with
bringing civil war upon the cou ntry by the
advocacy of thor pernicious doctrines, are
now lahorlng to increase the horrors of the
fratracldal strife Ivy inducing the Govern
ment to proclaim the emancipation of the
slaves. And little Abolition Generals and
Colonels have dared to enunciate the mon
strous doctrine on various occasions. nnt>
withstanding in doing 81 they were aware
that they incurred the displeasure of the
Administration. The grand scheme of
Abelitionism is to wipe out slavery. They
care nothing fog the Union or the constitu-
tiOn-nor for the guaranteed rights Of the
devoted friends of the Union in the so-
called border Ststes On the contrary.
while they are advocating their emancipa-
ii policy as the remedy for the evils that
are devastating Oag country they must know
that their coarse and the success of such
policy, could result in nothing short of the
destruction Of the Union beyond any hope
Of reconstruction. Therefore, we con-
tend that the advocates of negro emaucipa
ton as remedy for the war, are as much
traitors as are JEFF Davis and his followers
in the South
And again, we believe, that while this
emancipation policy is being urged by men
who do not care whether the Union be re-
stored and preserved or not, it is not alto
gether of American origin. 1t is of British
birth, aud was imported from Exeter Hall
To Boston The first Abolition society in
this country was established by English
men aud Great Britain from that day until
the Southern people were goaded to
phrenzy and rebellion, continued TO en-
courage the war upon the rights and tram
guilty of the South. Hence, we may say
that England as well as the secessiunists
and AbohtlOnAts, Is laboIlng TOR the same
Ohjsct-tbe destruction of the American
Union.
But We would ask are the people of the
North. saying nothing OF the loyal men Of
the South, prepared to submit to their por-
ton of the bitter cup rendered to them by
the Aboliuonists? Emancipate the slaves,
and every interest in the land would with
CT under the influence Of the bliehting
curse. 10 addition to war. We should have
pest,lence and famine Let the slaves be
tarued looss--let all restraint and care be
removed from them, and experience tells us
they would lead life of sIoth, of misery
and of crime. and becume pest to society.
We need but point to che emancipation q.