Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-09-24
Prom the Louisville Democrat
How TO Restore the Union.

5 ome of the Republican editors. don's
relish our suggestion that the Republican
party should disband, 20 into liquidation.
and quit. We didn't expect il would be
palatable. 1t would be unnatural if IL
we're. Still we give them the opinion ,ot
their own oracle. VIM. ii. Seward, He
said, parties, men and platforms must be
sacrificed to the Union" The Republican
organization is the one thst stands in the
way although it must be great sacrifice
Of party pride, perhaps more than can be
expected Immediately, it is a necessity in
our judgment. 1t was a dangerous expert.
ment upon the peace and integrity OF the
country to form it. This is Union of free
and slave States and whatever may be q
mans private opinion, ii is moral treason
In one class oil States TO wage a political
wat on the Institutions of the other. IL Ia
bad enough to Keep up an eternal babble
against slavery and shareholders in Con-
gress; to threaten to hem up the Souther1
States, and surround them with oonula-
tion hostile to them and their insritutions
but to get up party organization of more
than half the States in political action. and
aspire to quash the whole political power.
and control the action Of common Gov.
eminent, against the sentiments, wishes
and interests Of the other section. is a dan.
gerous experiment. All men are not nbil.
osophers, and will not look cooly az the
temporary success Of such an experiment
We believe the Black Republican, barty
harmless concern, if the Southern peopie
would take it as its real importance but
they Judge 1t by its professions, by its OBJ
Jects as stated by its accredited organs
They judge 1t by the hopes and purposes
that party puts forward, and they are off,
eusive and insulting. In quiet times thew
awaken resentment and hostility: now
they add fuel to the fame already findled.
The Administration may protest honestlv
that the rights Of the Southern States shall
be respected they may be innocent Of auy
intention TO Cypress this section of the
Union but what they protest is Offset bv
violent anti slavery men, who stand we'll
with the Administration, Notwithstanding
their violence. Beside, it is no mattel
how well they intend to act, il is not suff-:
cradle that ohe section of the Union should
Judge at its discretion what is we'll for the
other, or for both. No free people will
submit to this long. As we sale, we hold
this party powerless to do harm. Ii gained
Presidential election by one of the vicis-
STUDIES Of parties, and would have got the
spoils for one term. and died of Its own in
heritent views, if the Cotton States had
done their duty. This success however.
was dangerous. We have warned the
country a Thousand times of the danger,
but it was even worse than we Expected
Ii is not q reply to say it was no cause for
rebellion. We know that every states
man not infamed by Misrepresentation,
knows 1t was no cause for rebellion but it
is fact that the success of a sectional
party has been made the occasion of A
rebellion and the feeling and conviction
as to the necessity Of resistance in the
South is so deepened in intensity that some
direct action is needed. The disbandine OF
Republican party is the most important
step To this end. 1t ought never to have
existed. All patriotic men must be con-.
WINGED of this. 1t was in its inception 4
disregard of the solemn advice OF Che Faith:
er of his County, and every statesman
this country, has produced has, in some
Shape, repeated the advice and warning
Ii Republicans really love the Union as our
fathers made 1t, let them sacrifice their
party organization to its preservation. Il
IS necessary. If they do not mean what
the extreme South charge, is nothing inn
portant enough to preserve an organization
tor, in view Of the Consequences now upon
the country. The irrepressible conflict
must be abandoned to the peace and integ.
rity of the UnIoa.