Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-09-10
who are The Northern Disun-
iOniSts!


We would put this question to every IT,
telligent and candid citizen, and ask him
to weigh the subject thoroughly and an
swer as his conscience and judgment die
tates.
We hear much said about disunionists,
secessionists and traitors now a days, and
if any dependence can be placed in the
statements of the Republican journals, the
country is full of them. Indeed, according
to the ''irrepressible conflict" organs and
the Republican leaders generally, every
man who criticizes any Of the acts of the
Administration. objects to the appointment
Of corrupt and utterly incompetent men to
places Of responsibility, doubts the entire
infalibiity Of the men in power, or desires
the return of peace and prosperity to the
country through restored Union and re-
established constitution, is not only dis
unionists, but "a rebel" "a secessionists,"
"a traitor"
These slanderous epithets are unspar
ingly applied to Democrats Of all grades
who do not ignore their political sentiments
/ The captains Of the Wide Awakes, who are.
too cowardly to go forth to defend the ecu
/ try and to aid the Government in putting
down the rebellion, stay at home to threaten
their neighbors and to call them all mans
nor of hand names. In their eyes to be a
true Democrat aud to believe as Senator
| Douglas did, that protracted war is. dis
union-fnaP iErevocable separation" is
treason of the darkest form.
1t matters not if man may have fought
for the stars and stripes on the battle fields
of our country, or voted and used his in
fuence through long and useful life, in
favor Of the Union and the constitution as
our fathers made it, if he docs not support
the policy of suhjugation or determination
advocated by large class of the Repuhli
can party, forsooth, he is an enemy to his
country.
We presume there is no man who will
pretend that Senator Douglas was a dis
unoDists, yet he was opposed to the com
mencement Of the war, regarding it not only
irreT arabic disupion, but is continuance
'the surest means of renderinga reunion
or reconstruction impossible" No Demo
erat goes farther than this. Consequently
the Democracy of the North who refuse tc
merge their political identity with the Re,
pub'icans, and protest against war Of sub
jugation are just as much disunionists a:
was Senator Dougas-and no more
That there may be dlsunionists amongst
US may be true, but they DO not belong tc
the Democratic party. Democrats are true
to the constitution and Union and ever
have been. They have proved the fact al
all times, in war as we'll as peace, and are
army will demonstrate There have never
been any Union sliders" in the Demo,
cratic party. And if these men in the
Republican party who haze, time and
again, petitioued Congress for dissolution
of the Uaion and tailed the stars and
stripes in the dust, have repented Of THEN
past acts as their present professions would
indicate, there are no disunionisrs at the
North now. If Lovejoy, and Sumner, and
Hale, and Wade, and Chase, and poiti-
clans Of their stripe. have become honest
supporters Of the constitution, there is no
ground for the slanderUus charge made by
the Republican press.
And we would suggest to those persons
who are repeating the cry of disunionis:s
and traitors, that they are doing much to
aid the rebellion in the SJuth, as the ten
dency is to make the South believe that
| the North IS full Of men who sympathise
with them and would fight for them if they
had an opportunity. 1t is thus that the
Republicans encourage the South to fight
more desperately.