Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-02-25
sustain the Administrattou.

Civil war is now raging in our once
peaceful. happy aud united country, LAYING
waste our land and demoralizing our peo-
pie, prostratiug all business, and carrying
death and destruction to thousands of once
happy homes yet we cannot zee, that, un-
der the existing facts, it can be brought to
close for the present As much as we de
sire to see an end put to this horrible and
unnatural war, we would not have the ma
ton humble itself before the rebels, or ae-
cede to terms that might be considered
dishonorable or in controvention to the con
s;itution upon which our institutions are
founded.
Feeling thus. we are willing to yield to
the Administration, as the representative
head of the Government, all the aid in our
power in putting down the rebellion, 80
long as it prociaims that its sole object in
waging the war is for the purpose Of
establishing the supremacy Of the laws and
the constitution and Of re constructing the
Union upon the eternal principles of JUS
tice, and regard for the constitutional
rights Ct the South as well as the North.
And while we believe with Edward Ey-
erett, that the Union cannot be maintained
by the numerical predominance and mill.
tary prowess of one section exerted to CO.
cree the other into obedience, at the same
time, 10 our judgment, the true men ofthe
North are called upon to stand by the Adj
ministration in conducting the war SO long
as the Abolition policy of slavery emanci.
patton is discarded. Already this couser.
vatize policy is disarming the ultra men o
the Scutb of much of their strength, anC
the secession cause in becoming weak e.
every day.
1t this constitutional policy be adhered
/ to by President Lincoln, while it will max,
the Summers, and Loveioys, and Wilson's
and Wades, his enemies, it will make thu
true Union men his friends. The charac-
ter of the orders issued by Generals Nc,
Cleilan, Halleck, Sherman, Buell. anC
| Grant. are of such nature as to give con,
fdence they point to one great end, ant
when that shall have been consummated
/ the war will terminate The Administration
appears to have little faith in the policy o
the Abolit;onists, and consequently tn
loyal people should sustain it to their Mt
most in its earnest endeavors to protect tn
Union from destruction.
We would not have our Democrati
| friends endorse ell the sentiments avowet
by President Lincnln, or sustain and an
| prove all that has been done by the mer
now at tie head of Government, but as ia
as carrying on the war in accordance Will
/ the requirements of the constitution, w,
all should be united Laws for its prose
cution must be acquiesed in. Taxes t,
/ provide for the enormous debt, now in
creasing at the rate of nearly three million!
daily. must be paid. No good citizen
whatever may have been his views in re
gard TO the policy of commencing the war
can justly refuse to pay his portion of th,
taxes required to defray the expenses o
the war.
So far the Administration must be sus
tanned. We do not ask Democrats to &C.
quiese in the cxtra.constitutiona acts of tn,
President, bat in his disobedience to thu
! demands of the Abolitionists. IL is our duty
| to be Administration men.