Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-07-29
The Democracy of the Loyal
States.

hC OeUlUCTaCy U tnc LOya&
States.
Notwithstanding the insulting menaces !
of the Abolitionists.whc appear to WELD the |
power of the Administration in a great
measure, the Democracy Of the loyal States
are perfeeting their party organization pre-
paratory for the fall elections. Conven-
items are being held and tickets nominated
and we have no doubt that the Democracy |
of every State will join the movement. In
to-day's paper, we give the resolutions
adopted by the Democratic State convention
of Pennsylvania, and. recommend them to
the consideration of every true friend Of his
country. Resting or the firm basis Of the
ancient Democratic faith, those resolutions
of the Keystone State Democracy, apply
the 2rinci les thus established to the mo-
meutusus issues which are paramount to
any other question that ever came before
the American people.
We would invite those persons who pro.
fess that they cannot see how the Domoc-
racy can support the Government and not
agree with the party politics and policy of
the Administration to peruse the resolutions
Of the Penney lVania Demc cracy. Are there
disloyal sentiments avowed in those resolu-
| tions? Do they favor accession and give
aid and comfort to the enemy? No intelli-
| gent man who reeds them can say that.
Still it seems that the ultra Republicans
are not at all satisfied with this loyalty of
the Democracy as expressed through cons
ventions. They want them to abandon
their party organization entirely, and to
join the Republican party in order to show
their loyalty to the Government. In other
words they cannot see how Democrats can
sustain the Government of which Mr.. Lin
coin is the head, and not sustain the party
which placed him in ofice.
In times past. when Democrats were at
the head Of the Government, even in war,
they never thought Of asking their political
opponents to join their party, in order to
show their loyalty to the Government Nor
did Democrats, in those days, propose the
infiction ef mob vengeance and hanging
against those who reserved to themselves
the right of enjoying and expressing their
own political views and criticiziug the acts
of the Administration.
But change has come over the times -
The Republicans are in power now; and
they are not willing to allow Democrats tbe
privileges never denied to them. They
command the Democracy to forgotten if
they car not Obliterate it from the tablets of
their memory-at least never to whisper it
to themselves or others, that they bad
warned the American people, during long
years Of past political conflict. that dissolu
II, n of the Union and civil war would inev
itably follow the triumph Of a sectional
party, imbued with rancorous hatred ofthe
people and the institutions Of another sec
ton. The truth is. they d. not seem to
comprehend the difference between patriot
ism and partyism
Democrats coLtend that there is wide
distinction between the Government and
the Republican party. They can see per
feet consistency in giving Mr.. Lincoln's
Government their test aid, and at the same
time extending opposition TO his party
The Republican party may be corrupt
ianatical and ruinous to the country,
and we firmly believe it is; and that it
ought, therefore, to be opposed by svery
honest friend of the country. and, il posi-
dedicated in all its merely party schemes.
Democrats believe that the Union is a great
and notle Government, unsurpassed in ex-
eellence, and that it ought to be devo,edly
cherished, bravely defended end zealously
INDICATED, both against the PARTICLES who
have appraised the hand of rebe lion and
the party zealots who carry ruin IN their
! :rair.
The Democracy of the loyal States will
not permit themselves to be placed in false
| Positit by the Republicans. As much as
they desire to see an end put to this horri-
Die and unnatural war, they ould not have
our Government humble itself before an
armed rebellion or merely for the sake Of
securing peace, we would not have it &C.
cede to terms in conlravention to the con-
stitutiOn and dishouorable to our NATIONAL
ity.
Hence, the wh' lie Democracy of the North
| have put their shoulders to tie load, and
will sustain the Government in every leriti
mate and ris hteOus effort to suppress the
REBELLION. To save the Union they are
ready to make any sacrifice, bear any bur-
den of taxation and do any amount of hard
| lighting, but decidedly protest against be.
| ing slaughtered to save the platform of a
sectional party. They have heartily sup
ported the Administration, as the represen
tatIve head Of the Government in its effJrts
to re establish the supremacy of the laws
over the entire country. and they will con-
! t'nus 20 do go uutil the Uniun shall be re-
stored as II was. But IN carrying the
nag aud keeping step 20 the music of the
Union" they d. not think it necessary to
abandon their political sen,imtnts or po-
iitical organization, nor will they, come
what NAY.