Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-08-12
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victories. Well, after a campaign of eight
months what has be accompiishedf Tie
reader knows, but we viii state one thing
he has cost the governments more money
than all the rest Of the army combined, and
tbieving politicians have stolen since Lin
coin was inaugurated.
Now that Gen. Hallcck is appointed
General-in- Chief. the Democratic press
make another hurrah because he beings
t. their party. and have laid down this
platform for him: Garry en- this war &C.
earding to the Constitution end restore the
Union as it was II he is to do no better
than Mcclellan. we pity our country
We do not want politician for Geper-
al. Fremont was a Republican AID Nc
Clellen was a Democrat. We do not imag.
inc that il their political sentiments we're
changed it would improve their generals
ship. What the country wants at this time
il, man who can ''thrash the rebels"
using any means be may see fit to do it
We know that the Republicans are anxious
to see the South beaten and brought back
under the COnstitution--this is their first
wish-tbe thought uppermost in their
minds. The Democratic press insist that
the Union shall be restored as it was. If
Gen. Halleek succeeds no better than his
democratic predecessor we fear the country
is doomed to ppointmeut.-Joiiet Re
publican.
We clip the above article from the Re-
publican of this place in order that our
readers who do not take that sheet may
know something Of the caliber an senti
ment Of the organ of the Republican party
in this county. 1t is the paper which in
sists that there shall be no Democratic
party in the country. One gifts editors is
Mr.. Lincoln's Postmaster and must be sup
posed to be orthodox.
Twoor three things stand out plainly in
the article, to which we wish to call par
ticuIar attention. The first paragraph, it
will be seen, a!ludes to the time when
Gen. Mcclellan was first called to Wash
iugton, when that paper says "the Demo-
ratio press of the north raised shout of
! triumph"
Let US look back to that memorable peri
! cd. Gen. Scott was Commander in Chief
He had been months in organizing an
army Day by day the proportions CT that
organization had been swelling. and each
day the radicals of the county, among
which must in justice be included the edi-
tors of the Republican par erce7lance bad
demanded a march coward to Richmond. -
but Gen. Scott, who knew som ething more
of war, shook his head because he saw that
the rebels were organizing forces as fast as
he was, and he had sen Sc enough to foresee
the importance of moving upon them when
he did move with an overwhelming pow.
err.
mittees of Congress induced to old General
to lay aside his own Judgment and gratify
them with q circus. The disasterous scenes
of Bull Run were the fruits of their mad
policy. And when that grand army re-
turned to Washington in disgrace and de-
moralizatioD, when every heart of the ma.
ton was trembling for the fate of the ma
tional capital when Gen. Scott overwhelm.
ed with disaster, cursed himself with the
charge of cowardice for having failed to
Withstand the OPPORTUNITIES of the radical,
ard IN chagrin resigned his position a.
Commander in Chief, then it was that tine
President summoned General Mcclellan
from his campaign in Western Virginia to
Washington, to sieze upon that confused
mass of disoIganized soldiery and produce
from such materials an army worthy OF
our Republic. Then it was thet Gen. Nc
Clellan FASTENED to obey the Presidents
call, and in a speech to the crowd, at bis
first arrival, proclaimed to them eve shall
have no more Bull Run retreats" Then,
day by day, grew up strong army, and il
was because of these facts that the Demo
cratic press of the North raised shout d
triumph" while old green eyed calculating
Republicanism began to growl because one
suspected of Democracy was likely to gain
popularity by saving the Republic.
The second paragraph shows how bitter
is Republican partizansbip. What money
Mr., Republican, has Mr., Mcclellan cost the
country? Did he brig on this iniquitous
war? Where was he when the war begun
Was he with Lloated Chandler, declaring
there must be some blood-letting to make
the Union worth a rush? Was he with
Norton declaring that he could take ten
thousand men and march from Washington
to New Orleans? Was he with the Re,
publican declaring that he would see the
country convulsed with war from its centre
to its extremities before he would yield an
inch? Far from it, lie was quietly pur-
suing his avocation of an engineer aiding
to build our railroads-endeavorin to
I develupe cur commerce and promote the
public prosperity. So little part had he
taken in politics that the Chicago Journal
but few months ago, declared it did not
know what his politics had been.
When the glorious Wide Awakes pre-
! pared to take the South, McClelan's voice
was not heard. We then ask that paper
once more what money has Mcclellan cost
the country? Was il as Commander-in-
/ Chief? That Office was never sought by
him, and in it he always acted in subordi-
nation to the President. If the President
does not approve of his course, why does
he continue him? Dare cur Pcstme ster
say the President is derelict in duty? 1t
is true that before Richmond, when be was
ready to strike the fatal blow, the govern
ment failed to reinfOrce him, and he was
compelled to change his position or the
annibilation of his entire army would have
brought curses from the people both upon
the Administration and the Republican
party that would have made them less ju-
bilant to day. and would have brought the