Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-09-30

been practiced so long and 80 successfully
that when the war burst upon Us they fear
ed to let the people know its full propor
tons, and they persisted in assuring their
friends 1t was but passing excitement
They still asserted that the South was un-
able to maintain and carry on war. They
denounce as traitor every man who tried
to tell the truth anc TO warn our people of
the magnitude of the contest.
Now. my republican friends, your know
that the mlsapprehensi0ns of the North
with regard to the South has drenched the
land with blood. Was this ignorance acct
dentialf appeal to you republicans, if
Tor years past, though the press and in
publications which have been urged upon
your attention by the leaders of your party,
you have not been taught to despise the
power and resources of the South? ap-
peal to you to say if this teaching has not
been part of the machinery BY which
power has been gained? / appeal to you
to answer If those who tried to teach truths
now admitted have not been denounced /?
l appeal to you if book, beyond all others,
false, bloody, and REASONABLE, was not sent
out with the endorsement Of all your man
ayers; anc is it not true that now, when
men blush to own they believed its state
ments, that its author is honored by an
official station? 1t is now freely confessed
by you ali that you have been deceived
with respect to the South. Who deceived
you? Who, by false teachings. instilled
contempt and hate into the minds of our
pseple Who stained our land with blood?
Who caused ruin and distress? All these
thi0ss are within your OWE knowledge.
Are their authors the leaders to rescue us
from our calamities? They shrink back
appalled, from the mischief they have
wrought, and tell you it is an irrepressible
contest. The reason is as good for Jeffsr
son Davis as for them. They attempt to
drown reflections by new excitements and
new appeals to our passions. Having al
ready, in legislation, gone far beyond the
limits at which, by their resolutions, they
were pledged to stop, they now ask to adopt
measures which they have heretofore de-
nounceG as unjust and unconstitutional
For this reason they cannot save our coun
try.
As our national calamities thicken upon
us an attempt is made by their authors to
avoid their responsibilities by insisting that
our failures are due to the fact that their
measures are not carried out, although
government has already gone far beyond its
pledges. The demands of these men will
never cease. simply because they hope to
save themselves from condemnation hy
having unsatisfied demands. At the last
session Congress not only abolished slavery
in the District of Columbia, but, to quiet
clamOrous men, an act of cOnfscation and
emancipation was passed, which, in the
opinion of leading republicans, was unccn-
stltutional and unjust. By this act the
rebels have no property-not even .heir
own lives-snd they own no slaves. But
to the astonishment and disgust of those
who believe in the policy of statutes and
proclamations. these rebels still live and
fight and hold their slaves These meas
ures seem to have terminated them. They
have careless and reckless way of appro.
propriating their lives and property, which
by act of Congress belong to US, in support
of their cause.
But these fanatical men have learned
that II Is necessary to win victory before
they divide the spoil-aud what do they
now propose? As they cannot take the
property OF rebels beyond their reach, thew
will take the property Of the loyal men Of
the border States. The violent men Of this
party, as you know from experience, nv
conservative republican friend. in the end
have their way. They now demand that
the President shall issue p: exclamation of
immediate and universal emancipation -
Against whom is this to be directed? Not
agi inst those in rebellion, for tnev come
within the scope of the act of Congress. 1t
can only be applied to those who have
been true to our Union and our flag, They
are to be punished for their loyalty. When
we consider their sufferings and their cruel
wrongs at the hands of the secessionists
their reliance upon our faith, is not this
proi sal black with ingratitude.
The scheme for an immediate emancina-
ton and general arming of the slaves
throughout the Snuth is proposal for the
butchery of women and children; for
scenes OF lust AMI rapine of reason muir
der unparalleled 10 the history of the
world. The horrors of the Frence Revolu>
ton would become tame in comparison -
Its effect would not be confined to the walls
of cities, but there would be wide spread
scene of horror over the vast expanse of
OF great States, involving alike the Ioyal
and seditions. Such malignity and cow
ardIce would invoke the interference OF
civilized Europe. History tells of the
tires klndied In the name of religion, Of
atrocities committed under lretexts or or
der of liberty =; but it is now urged that
scenes blOodIer than the world has vet
seen shall be enacted an the pane of phi
lanthropy.
A proclamation of general and armed
emancipation at this time would be a cruel
wrong to the African. 1t is now officially
declared 10 Presidential addresses. which
are fortified by Congressional actin. that
tie negro cannot live in the endowment of
the full privilege of life among the white
race. 1t is now admitted, after our loss
of infinite blood and treasure, that the
great problem we have to settle is not the
the slavery, but the negro question. A
terrible question, not springing from stat.
utes or usages, but growing out of the un-
ehangeable distinction or race. 1t is dis
covered at this late day, in republican Hi
nois, that 1t is right to drive him from its
soil. 1t is discovered by a republican Con-
gress, after convulsing our country with
declarations in favor Of his equal rights,
and asserting that be was merely the vic.
tim of unjust laws, that be should he sent
away from our land The issue is now
changed. The South bOlds that the Afri-
can is fit to live here as slave. Our re-
publican government denies that he is ft
to live here at sll
The republican party cannot save the
country, because through its powerful press
it teaches contempt for the laws, cOnstitu
ton and constituted authorities. They
are not only destroying the Union. bat they
are shaking and weakening the While
structures Of Stale as well as of the nation
al government, by denunciation of every
law and Of all authority that stand in the
way Of their passions or their PURPOSE
They have not only carried discord into
our armies. Every General who agrees
with them upon the subject of slavery is
upheld in every act of characterization and
sustained against the clearest pro is Of it,
competence if not of corruption. On the
other hand, every Commander, who differs
FROM their views upon the single point of
slavery. denounced. not only for incompe,
tency, but constantly deprecated 10 every
act, No man is allowed to be Christian;