Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-12-16
Tyranny or Republicanisn,.


w. clip the following from the Congress
sionai proceedings on the frst day of the
session, and invite our readers to give it
their candid attention for moment:
: Mr.. RICHARDSON tIiil. offered the fol.
lowing resolution
Resoired. That the President be request
ed TO inform the House Of Representative
what citizens of illinois are now confined
in Fort Warren, Ia Fort Lafayette. in the
Forts Of Delaware. 10 the Old Capitol Prison.
aud in any forts or places of confinement
upon what eharges such citizens we've ar,
rested and that the President also ioform
the House of Representatives the names of
the persons arrested 10 the state of Illinois
aud confined in prisons outside Of the lin
Its OF said State what the charges are
against them by HON the charges are
made /; and by whose orde. all such arrests
were made.
MIR. Owen Lovejoy my. moved to lay
the resolution on the table.
The motion WAS adopted by yeas, IA;
nays, 40:
Here it is declared by a strict party vote,
the Democrats voting against laying the
resolution on the table and the Republi>
cans in favor. that citizens of Illinois NAV
be arrested an incarcerased in loathsome
dungeons at the will of The President or
any Government officer.
Hundreds of citizens of Illinois have
within the last year, been arrested with.
ont cause, and detained in prisons without
authority, yet cur Congressman, the Hon.
Owen LoSej y, is opposed to Investigating
the matter. and hence moves that the reso-
luton of Inquiry be laid on tho tail. and
is backed up by the Republican majority.
We cannot see what harm ciuIi result,
from the adoption of Mr.. sRichardson's
resolution. 1t does not propose to screen
the guilty. IT. perchauce. there have been
spies or traitors arrested, the resolution
does not propose to letthsm go. but it SIM
ply wishes to relieve the innocent, if there
be any. from an imprisonment humiliatine
and barbarous. This is all that 10 desired
1 by Mr.. Richardson and the. Democracy o.
Illinois. They want the guilty to be pun.
ished and the innocent to go free. They
are not only in favor Of hanging oil th,
spies and conspirators that may be caugb
amongst Us, but think that If some of th.
Republican officials who have robbed the
! Government out Of millions of dollars were
treated to hempen cords about their neck,
likewise, the rebellion would be put dowr
! the sooner.
Such is the tyranny Of Republication
under the lead Of Owen Lovejoy. Cousti
sutIonal rights are nothing. Loyalty, pat
riotism and past services to the couutr,
sre of no avail. Position and sacrifices 70,
the cause OF she Union afford DO protection
In these Republicans times no one is safe
The iron hand of despotiam stops not 1,
inquire into the trutbfuluess of any chsrg,
that may be preferred against citizen
but SEXES and drags him from his HON,
and friends, without giving him an oppor
tuDity to prove his innoeense. And wber
that noble champion of the people anc
constitutional liberty, Hon. W. A. Rich
ardson, wishes the President to give .h,
facts in regard to the arbitrary arrests o
citiEens, be is choksd down by the Love
joys and other leaders of the Republican
PARTY.
Well. let the Republicans carry out thei
tyrannical policy. The day rs comm,
when they will have to render fearful ac
count to the people for trsmpling upon til,
constitution. The peeple.ef this countr,
are hardly yet prepared to quietly submit
to depotism that would shame the darker