Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-08-05
VOL. 90 NO. 8

tiOus are found upon their ,ussdI;, :,
clothes The next day, or soon after this
same Wendell Phillips did dine with n,
was Otherwise entertained bv his ExceIlen.
cy the President of the United States. who
related 70 him enc Of his choicest anec-
dotes. Yet Democratic editors, Democratic
Senators and Representatives, and those
holding other official positions by the grace
oil the States or Of the people, are "trait-
ors iorsooth, because they would adhere
TO the principles and Organization of their
noble and patriotic old party Such are
some OF the exhibitions which Washington
has witnessed during the past winter
congress, too. has been 10 session. Sir. I
saw IT announced in one of the disloyal pa
pers ct this city yesterday that JEFF Davis.
ana Toembs, ard Iancey, and Rhett, and
other SecessioDists Of the Saufh wonld
derive much comfort from this DAYS meet
ing.
Well, sir. have Just come from a body
OF men which l would not for a moment
pretend to compare FOR statesmansbin re-
spectability or patriotism, with this Con
yention. That body mas devoted lie time
ana attention 10 toi1t nsrs ~ ~ r,,a.,,.s'
for the cause CT Secessionisnl. than Beau
regard, and Lee. and johnson, and all the
Southern Generals combined have been NJ le
to accomplish in one gear. Said Senator
from the South, the other day, a Union
mao, JEFF. Davis is running two Con-
crosses now. and is making id eight
more out OF the Washington Congress than
the one at Richmond" Laughter, aud
many remarks Of approval
The Legislation of that body has been al
most wholly for the almighty African 4"
From the prayer in the morning flor. zen
uemen, we are pious body, we are
making long faces, and sometimes vrv
faces, too, daughter, } we open with prayer.
but there Is not much of toe aluighty
Maker OF heaven and earth ia itl 10 the
motion to adjourn, it is negro in every
shape and form in which he cen by auy
possibility be served W. But il is not only
the negro inside Of the House aad Senate
but outside also. The city Of Washington
has beer. within the rat three weeks
converted into one universal hospital. every
church, except cne for each Denomination
has been seized fGr hospital purposes: and
while the Sanctuaries of the ever,ltying
GOd-the Gld of Abraham, Isaac and Ja-
cob-nOt the God OF the Burlingamos and
Summers and other Abolitianists. not that
Coo whose gospel is written in the new Bj
bic OF AbolitiOn-but the everything Jebn,
Yah God, have been coBff-cated for haTspi-
tsls, every theatre. every CONCERT saloon,
every other place Of amusement from the
highest ~ the luwes,-frum the sraci,us
theatre 10 which Forest exhibits TO an
enraptured audience his grauhic render
lngs OF the immortal creations If Shake
spear, down to the basest den Of reveIry
and drunkenness, are open still as in the
Inferno Of the great Italian poet
'The gates of hell stand open night and day"
Sir, if these places CT amusement-inno
cent some OF them, but not b ly, certainly
bad first been seized as hospitals, for the
comfort and cure Of the thousands Of brave
and hOnest men, who went rnrth believing
in their hearts that they were to battle for
the Constitution ami the Uaion, but who
now lie wasting away upon their l,nalv
pallets, with no wife, no sister, or mother
there to soothe, groaning in agony with
every description of wound which the dew
iiish ingenuity 0. man can inhct by weap-
one. whose invention was inspired by the
very spirit of the author of all human woe
and sutfering-wOunds, too, ranking and
fostering for the want of Surgical aid-if
those places, | say, had first been seized
and then it had become necessary for the
comfort of life of the thousands IF ether
sick and wosuded who are borne into the
city every day, to occupy the churches of
Washington, know Of no better or boiler
purpose to which they could have been de-
voted And now, sir, not fer from that
stately capitol, within whose marble walls
abolition treason now runs riot, is build-
ing. Green's Row" by name, in which
100 fugitive slaves-"c0ntrebapd n The
precious slang Of the rotorious Butler
daily receive the rations of the soldier.
which are paid cut OF the taxes levied uno,,
the people. One hundred thousand dol
lars a day are taken from the public treas
ury for the support Of these fugitive slaves.
while the army of Shields, and ether Union
armies in tn; field even 81 ,steiy as six
weeks ago, marched bare footed. bare
headed, and in their drawers for many
weary miles without so much as a cracker
or crust of bread with which to a!lay
their hunger. Aye, sir. while many pal
liant young soldier Of Ohio, Just Liiomipc
into mani pod, who heard the cry that wen,
up fifteen months ago, rally to defend the
flag and for the rescue of the capital" and
went forth to battle, with honesty in heart
his life in his hand. with courage in every
fiber, and patriotism in every vain les wal,
and sad on bis pallet in the hospital. your
surgeons are forced TO divide their time
and care between the wounded soldiers
and these vRgaboDd fugitive slavos. who
have been seduced or forced from tie ser,
vice OF their masters. These things ard
much more-I have told you rot a 1.-THE of
nli-are done IN Washington We know
II there, though Ii is withheld from the
people and while every falsehood that the
ingenuity OF man eau invent TO dolude and
deceive, is transmitted or alE;wed bv the
Geographic censors Of the Administration
themselves usurpers unknown to the
@ institution and laws-;hese facts are moi
permitted tn reach the people of TIE United
States Your new spapers the natural
watch dogs of liberty. are threats ned with
suppression if but the half or thu hurd
redth part of the truth be told. And now.
too, when but one other means remained
for the redress Of this and the hundred
other p litical grievances. under which the
land groaDs-party organization and pub
lie assemblages Of the people-even these.
too, are threatened with suppression by
armed force. Aye, sir, that very party,
which not many years age, bore upon every
banner, the motto, Free Speech aud o
Press" now day by day forbids the .rans>
mission through your mails Of the papers
from which You derive your knowledge a
public events, and which advocates the
principles you cherish. And Democratic
editors. too, are seized. kidnapped" in the
midnight honr-t0rn from their families
gagged-their wives with officers O. e. them
menacing violence If they bat ask one fare
well grasp Of the hand. one parting kiss
thrust into the feline carriage in the fel
ons hour of midnight. and with violence
dragged to this Capital and here forced
uron az express train ana hurried of to a
military fortress Of the United S,alos.-
Yes, men of Ohio, to TO- tTess that bears
the hOnorId name of that first martyr 10
American liberfy-the Warren Of Bunker
Hill; or il may be to that other bastile
desecrating that other name saeree in
American history, and hOnored through