Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-06-10
who Is that Knocking at the
Door!

Door!
The national tax bill, as it stands, will
require the appointment of about twenty
six thousand collectors.
No wonder then, that we see prominent
Republicans trimming their lamps. and
wide awake to the interests Of the party.
The spoils of Office are once more held up
before their eyes as an inducemeut for
renewed effort, to sustain the sinking for
tunes of hepublicanism.
Twenty SIX millions of dollars devoted
to these now unnecessary evils, which will
darken our doors and come between us and
the sunlight of our prosperity CONTINUALLY
will make many adherents and perhaps
some converts to that class of men, who
bend the pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift may follow fawnIng.'
One thousand dollars each as the salaries
OF those collectors, their fee and the ex-
penses for printing, selling property under
process OF law, DC, &c, is a moderate
estimate for the running Of so ponderous
and intricate . machine as the federal tax
bill
As Democrats it is not our intention 10
complain. or to repudiate. We pay our
cur hcoest debts. and viii insist that the
debt OF the nation also shall be paid !;
Democracy has held up the honor and ad-
yabeed the prosperity Of the nation too
long to be careless Of either now Demo-
Gratis were never In favor of bankrupt laws
and Reputation Of indebtedness. therefore.
they were always averse TO going into
debt or mourning lavish expenditures
knowing that the day OF reckoning and
payment must come sooner or later.
One thousand millions of dollars rest.
upon our shoulders tO-day the penalty
we have to pay for Incorporating stub
borness and faDaticism. a house divided
against itself cannot stand will prove
prophetic OF this c)untry's ruin, if AboIi-
tlonists stick to their text, and continue TO
convulse the nation with their insane
Weddings with slavery, their emancipation
policies and negro phobia generally.
Conservative Republicans, are you pre-
pared to follow your ultra leaders who
would sacrifice the hopes Of the world in
the stability OF the government, upon the
alter OF sckly and sickening sentimental.
ism about the equality and other status Of
negro Are you prepared with the light
now shed upon the question, to applaud
when heudell Phillips curses the con-
stitution and the Union, and thanks God
that 1t 1.-THE UnIon) is broken or say Amen
in response to Sumner, Lovely, Wilson,
Hale, and in fact three fourths Of your
representatives in Congress, when they
pursue their daily course Of fsnHIng the
flames OF dscOrd by introducing aud advo-
eating incendIary resolutions and meddlinC
bills about negroes and slavery; continually
agitatng the vexed question which has
irrltated to rebellion large portion of cur
country and made tbs hcGrthstoues of both
North and South desolate and sad! Are
you prepared to still endorse course
which will prOlong this war, beaping
million upon million, and bereavement upon
bereavement, aud suffering upon suffering,
and death upon death? Or are you not
rather now willing TO swear new alegi-
aUce to the Democratic party, which you
should never have deserted, TO be true to
yourselves, TO be true to the country, TO be
practical men, to end the war, TO rebCke
treason North and South, to vine out trail
tors and reoels wherever they are to be
found in fact to respect the constitution,
to honor the flag, to maintain the Union
lnyoisble.
Honestly, how do you like the results of
your victory in November, 1860? Are you
a. Jublant DOW as then? Have all the
promises which have been made to you
been fulfilled? Have you had peace Have
you had prosi Gritty Have you bad honesty
IN the administration Of your affairs Have
! our expenses materially fallen of? What
| about taxes? What about the lG0 acres of
| land? What about the American flag
abroad, it's prestige compared with year
/ ago! Did the eagle ever drop its wings
at the roar OF the British lion before p
/ Have we us nation had to suffer humilia
/ ton? A hundred more equally as rerti
nent questions will suggest themselves
Having answered these, ask yourselves the
/ following:
Would you not have preferred Demo-
cratic administration without the war t.
Republican one with it?
If you had voted for Stephen a. Douglas
there would have been no war; treason
would not have dared to raise its hydra
head; the country would have remained
united, prosperous and happy the twenty
six Thousand tax gatberers would not bt
on the eve OF meeting us upon every cor
ner, and we would have been at all time
in condition to bid defiance to all wh,
dared to encroach upon our dignity O
prerogltive.
Conservative Republicans, reflect upol
these facts; turn the subject over in you
minds; act like patriots aud wise men il
future, fO:swear isms; vote the Democrat,
ticket, aud with your assistance all may b.
well.