Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-01-01

" 1t is an accepted axiom that he who
encourages, aids, and abets crime is equally
guilty with the actual perpetrator. In this
view, the editors of such journals as the
New York Herald, Chicago Times, and
Joliet Signal, must stand before the coun-
try as moral traitors to the Confederacy-
Upon such really rests the responsibility
Tor the results which threaten the over
throw Of the nation and the inauguration
of civil war."-True Democrat.
The Republican newspapers, alarmed at
the terrible results of their teaching and
doctrines, are endeavoring to charge the
responsibility to the Democracy. Such a
charge is not only eowardly and mean, but
dastardly false, as every man possessed of
three grains of brains must know.
We deny, utterly deny, that any portion
Of the Northerl Democratic press has miss
represented the Black Republican party to
the South. The New York Herald, the
Chicago Times, the Joliet Signal, and every
other Democratic paper north of Mason
and DixOn's line, have had no occasion to
misrepresept the Republican party to the
South. in order to excite the people Of that
portion of the Union, for its doctrines and
purposes as announced by ITS leaders, have
been SO ultra that no Misrepresentation
could magnify their radicalism. The PEG.
pie of the South understood the position of
the Black Republican party, without the
aid of Northern Democratic newspapers
They have learned the principles of the
party from the speeches OF IT'S leaders, Sow
ard. Sumner, Wade, Hale, Giddings, Love.
joy, Wilson and others. They have learned
from the acts Of the party, its platform and
the speeches of these men, that it is an az
gressivc, anti slavery party. And as CO
temporary truthfully says, for twenty years
the pulpit, the school, the politician, and
the press have taught the people of the
North to hate lhe people of the SOUTH
And since the formation of the Republican
party they have constantly traduced the
people of the South they have spurnsd
them from their churches and communion
tables they have stolen their property.
and prevented its recovery by State lesis.
lation and armed force they have scat
tered polson amongst the slaves and taught
them TO mingle it in the cup of their mas.
ter; they have melted Instruction they
have elected President by force of a
sectional vote, and now boast that they have
the Scu'h under their feet. The people of
the South could not stand all this. And
they have resolved to seek redress in the
precise way predicted by the Democrats in
the event of the final triumph of Black Re
| publicanism.
The present excitement and reyolutiona.
~ movements in the South are conseouen.
ces of the aggressions of the Black Repub
licans of the North. and for which the
Democratic press is in no way responsible
and of which it has given the country time.
lv warnings.
The True Democrat and its Republican
contemporaries cannot hide the facts bv
charging the responsibility of the present
distracted state of the country to the Dem.
oerats. The calamity which has come uno,
Us is the fruits of Black RenubIican;sm
ne Republican party alone is responsible
Tor all the mischief. The effort of the
Republican press TO saddle the diffieulrie,
upon tue Democrats is not only ridiculous
but outrageous.