Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-09-02
The President and the Onion.

Last week We published the reply Of
President Lincoln to the iusolent letter Of
Horace Greeley. and mupt cay that Il affOr.
ded us sincere pleasure. TIE Presidents
position on the Union question as expressed
in bis letter, should be satisfactory to every
real friend oe the Union. He enpkatical-
~ discards the doctrines Of the radicals ara
lays down the platform upon which every
loyal man can stand.
The President has laced it upon record,
| more than once, that be means to stand by
the constitution and the Union, come what
may and the radicals are given to under
stand that lie does not sympathise with
them in their insane emancipation policy.
He has made up his mind that our Govern
ment is good one. aud that it is our SOL
emn duty to do all in on. power to perpet-
uate it and transmit it to coming genera
tons. To acco immediate Horace Greeley
and fhe class Of politicians who take the
extreme abolition ground, Mr.. L,ncOln will
never sgres to give mp the broad platform
Of the constitution. II there ever was
time when the country needed an avowal
CT the character contained in the Presi.
dents admirable letter, that time is the
present. The pernicious designs of the
northern abolition secessiopists are obvious
Time and again has Greeley through the
New York Tribune advocated the destruc-
ton Of the Unicn. Heretofore we have
given samples Of his abolition secessionism,
and hence it is not necessary to re.publish
them Dow. His class Of politicians favored
secession and urged the South out of the
Uniob, and brought about the civil war
Under the sacred pretext Of preserving the
Union they. in fact, have been plotting it's
overthrow. BY advocating policy in oppc.
sition to the constitution.
From the commencement OF our troubles
two polices have been urged upon the Pres.
ident for the suppression of the rebellion
One is that Of extreme severity-Of confs.
cation, FIRE, sword and the halter. The
other is that of vigor in military operations
till the m ilitary strength of the country
succeeds in putting down the rebellion and
restoring the supremacy of the constitution
and re-establishing the Union as it was -
The President believes in the latter policy
as well as docs every man who desires t
see the rebellion ended and the substantial
restoration of the Union and constitution a,
handed down to US by the patriots Of tn,
past. We shall stand by the President
and every Democrat will stand by him il
bis patriotic and ncble Wind ication Of tn,
true UIion policy. Let Greeley and hi
abolition followers denounce him and biz
noble General. as tardy in their movements
vacillstiRg and simid in their policy, the
day will come when his policy will tri-
umph and his course be vindicated.
While Greeley and the abolition seces.
sionists are willing to trample upon the
constitution and to make shipwreck of tn.
Union by declaring tie immediate abolition
of slavery, the President and the men who
are in our armies with muskets in their
hands, believethat thetrus policy is simply t
quell the rebellion against the Government
and to compel the insurreetionists to return
to their allegiance to the Union and the
constitution. and that the moment this is
accomplished that the war ought to end
and the whole machinery of the Govern
ment go on as before the insurrection. l,
Is only by the Presidents policy, AZ
against the policy of the radicals, that we
can ever hope to perpetuate the Union.