Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-07-15
Moral Forces.

Federal forces from the PafnuDkey 70 the
james River, add one mere to the invaria>
BILE list Of battles in which the rebels out
number US on the battle FIELD. Once more.it
IL avowed, the game Of war is in their hands
by their hurling their masses on our lrac-
tione. No matter how msny soldiers Ere,
mont, and Banks, ard Mcdowell. ard Hun
ter. and Butler, may have, drawing pay !
and rations, and wearing Government |
cloths, and carrying Government muskets, |
where the fighting is not going on. On
the battle fields, the ofhcial reports of our
generals show that the rebels bring more
men than we do.
FIVE are to win, therefore, we have need
to call in to ouy aid moral forces. Does
this need illustration? Gen. Hunters
proclamation freeiog the negroes in South
Carolina, etc., has probably reinforced the
rebel army by seventy five thousand fight
ing men. Gen. Buffers proclamation that
women in New Orleans who, "by word,
gesture CT movement knowing out of their
reach, for instance) should insult" or be
deemed % insult, Federal soldiers, were to
be treated as soldiers treat "women OF the
town, rlying their avocation," has formed
a favorite battle cry since. and has IN
doubtedIy stimulated q world of revengeful
wrath at the South.
On the other hand. were half a dozen
.abolitiouists Of the press and pulpit 70 be
hanged in New York for their rascalities,
and three or four in Pennsylvania and Ohio,
and were tue elections next fall in all the
Who will doubt that half dozen of the
border slave States would be ready to come
back under @ reunited CONSTITUTE IN This
is merely an illustrate Of what we mean
4, F.r.s hot D h., e
this war.
The application wo propose making is
this: There is persistent and determin-
ed action ON the part of some infamous
sbolitiopists, in and out of Congress, to
sgitate the question of the abolition of sla.
very within the States Of the South. They
talk, too, of confscsting. by act of Con-
gress, and against the provisions Of the
Constitution, the property of the rebels
That bad old man, Thaddeus Stevens, Of
Pennsylvania, now in Congress, utters the
sentiments Of this pestiferOus party, in his
speech Of few days ago:
''He would seize every foot of land and
apply them 20 the uses Of war as our arm
les go along. He would plant in the South
military colonies, and sell the land TO
soldiers Of freedom, holding the heritage of
traitors, aud building up institutions willis
out the recognition of slavery"
The Abolition clique holds verv nearly
controlling power in Congress. In the
Cabinet il has Chase and Wells, and what
is left Of Stanton. 1t brsgs that it will
bring Old Abe" over to it vet.
Now, what is the effect Of such vile rad
ical policyH 1t drives every man at the
South to desperation. The Abolitionists
propose to seize every foot of land and
every dollar OF property. They have not
got it yet! Do they not see that they rem
der pacifcation an impossibility When,
with such q programme before them, the
Southern States-for Mr.. Abraham Lin
coin has just told US that they are States
that are in rebelion-we say that when
the controlling interests in the Southern
States see coufiscation and determination
before them, as the terms held out hy the
Northern States, then they will rather be-
come colonies of European powers-Vir-
ginia, the Csrolinas, &c., colonies of Eng
land Louisiana, Missippi, Texas, &c of
France-Or rather, under a special arrange
ment, by joint dictionary treaty, the
revolutionary States will put themselves
under joint protectorate of England and
France, as a means ofsecuring themselves
against this wholesale barbarous confisca-
tion.
Is not this the very ching the Ab,lition
traitors are aiming att We believe it is.
Already the marks of a speedy interven-
ton on the part of European powers are
pnlpable. They are awaiting the issue of
the asserted siege Of Richmond. They will
hear, by last Saturdays steamer, that the
campaign Of the summer is OF an end, with
severe reverse of the Federal forces. MIR.
William II. Seward has already taken care
to inform all European powers thar the re.
cognition of the Southern Confederacy by
any Of them will be a caSus 5elh. By re-
ferring to the diplomatic authorities, we
find that, when a cause of war il about TO
be given, the minister Of the power about
to offer such cause Of war ought previously
10 retire from the capital of the other party.
leaving no secretary or any other person to
discharge the duties of charge d'affaires."
Ii will be a matter of deep interest to see
what ministers Of European powers will be
absent from Washington.
We have come into deep waters. We
need the utmost energies of the LOYAL peo-
of the United States to emerge without
more than disgrace, in the eyes Of the
world. We are bound to speak the truth
now, cost what it may. Mr.. Alb aham
Lincoln ought, at once, 10 dismiss every
member of his Cabinet. The reople of the
United States assuredly never elected any
one Of them to any Office. They ought to
resign. If they won't resign they ought to
be summarily dismissed.
The Democrats party alone has ever
been able to handle the power of the
American people. Now that Mr.. Lincoln's
advisers have brought the country to this
terrible pass-de6ed at home, and Instantly
threatened from abroad, we proclaim il
anew that ne is bound TO change those
advisers. Let Cabinet as nearly as pos
sibe such as Dou 6las would now form were
he alive, be selected. 1t is no grateful task
for any statesman to enter Mr.. Lincoln's
Cabinet. But the exigencies Of the time
demand. 10 politics, the heroic selEsacrifce
that Mcclellan has shown in the field.
We must change our political base of opera
tioRs, OF We will be overpowered. An
instant change of the Cabinet, the substi-
tuition of tried and uudinching Democrats
for the people now inland the adjournment
OF Congress, would give pause to the Euro
pean Powers, and might lead to a conven-
tiOn of all the States, for the amicable
settlement OF these difficulties. Wbv not
try III What else have you to try2 Is it
TO be the game of the arrest Of Mason and
Slidell over againi
European interventio We are bound to
oppose every by, means. What other way is
there ooen to thwartit?-N. ]. Freeman's
Journal.