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

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fearless Judgment pom the conduct of our
rulers. Ours shall not be the language of
discord aud violence. We deplore the pas.
sionate and vindIcate assaults of leading
repuplican journals upon those holding
civil or military stations. Above all, we
protest, IN behalf of our country's honor
and dignity, against their insubordinate
END disrespecful language towards the
President Of the United States, Such Ian
guage wrecks the authority of government
ana tends to anarchy and public disorder
or another reason. we cannot disband
our Organization. No other party can
save this country. 1t alone has clearly de-
nned purposes and well settled principles
IL nas been well said in our Congressional
Address, that under its guidance.
From five millions, the population in
| creased 20 thirty millions. The Revolu
tionary debt was extin ,uished. Two for
eign wars were successfully prosecuted,
with moderate outlay and small army
and uasy, and without the suspension Of
! the habeas corpus; without one infraction
/ q the cerstitution without one usurpation
OF power; without suppressing q single
newspaper; without imprisoning a single
editor without limit to the freedom of the
press or of speech in or out of Congress.
but in the midst of the grossest abuse of
both; and without the arrest of a single
traitor though the Hartford Convention
sat during one of the wars, and in the 9th
er Senators invited the enemy to Greet our
volunteers with bloody hands, and welcome
them to bospitabie graves !"
During all this time wealth increased
business Of all kinds multiplied. prosperity
smiled on every side, taxes were low, wa
yes were high. The North and the South
furnished market for each others pro-
ducts at good prices, public liberty was Sc
cure, private rights undisturbed every
mans house was his castle; the courts
| were open to all; no passports Cor travel !;
no secret police, no spies, no informers, n
bastlles; the right to assemble peaceably,
the right to petition freedom of religion
freedom OF speech, q free ballot and free
press and all this time the constitution
maintained and the Union Of the States
preserved"
WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CANNOT SAVE
THE COUNTRY.
On the other hand, the very character of
the republican organization make it inca
pable of conducting the affairs of the gov
ernmeDt. For q series of years, it has
practiced system of coalitions, with men
differing In principle, until it cat have no
distinctive policy. In such chaotic mass
es, the violent have most control. They
have been educating their followers for
! years, through the press, not to obey laws
which did not accord with their views
How can they demand submission from
| whole communities while they contend that
individuals may oppose laws opposed to
their conscieuces? They are higher law
men. They insist that the contest in
which we arc engaged is an irrepressible
one, and that, therefore, the South could not
avoid 1t, unless they were willing at the
outset to surrender all that abolitInnists de-
maDds To declare that this contest is ire
| pressi5le declares that our fathers formed
government which could not stand Are
such men the proper guardians of this gov
ernent? Have not their speeches and acts
| given strength to the rebellion, and have
they not also enabled it's leaders to prove to
their dsluded followers that the contest was
an irrepressible one?
| But their leaders have not only asserted
that this contest was irrepressible, unless
the South would give up what extreme re-
| publicans demand (their local nstitutions) J.,
but those in power have done much to JUS
tity this rebellion in the eyes OF tie world
The guilt of rebellion is determin-
ed by the character OF .he government
! against which it is arrayed The right of
revolution, in the language of President
| Lincoln, ie q sacred right when exerted
against bad government.
We charge that this rebellion is most
wicke because it is against the best gov
eminent that ever existed. 1t is the excel
| lenee of our government that makes resis-
lance a crime. Rebellion is not necessary
wrong. 1t may be an act of the highest
virtue-it may be one of the deepest de-
| pravity. The rebellion of our Fathers is
our proudest boast-the rebellion of our
brothers is the humiliation of our nation, is
our national disgrace. To resist a bad
| government is patriOtism-to resist a good
one lie the greatest guilt. The first is pat
riotism, the last is treason. Legal tribu
mails can only regard resistance of laws as
crime, but in the forum of public senti-
ment the character of the government will
| decide ii the act is treason or patriotism
Our government and it's administration
are different things but in the eyes of the
civized world, abuses, weakness or follv in
the conduct of affairs go far to justify resis-
lance. l have read to you the testimony of
Messrs. Greeley, Weed Bryant, Raymond
and Marble, charging fraud, corruption,
outrage and incompetency upon those in
power. Those who stand up to testify to
the incomreteney of these Representatives
OF discordant party to conduct the affa irs
OF our government are politically opposed
to us. Bear in mind that the embarrass-
ments of President Lincoln grows out of
the conflicting views of his political friends,
and their habits aud principles of iusubor-
diDation. His hands would be strenp then
ed by democratic victory, and if his pri-
vate prayers are answered we will relieve
him from the pressure Of philanthrophists
who thirst for blood and who call for the
exterminati of the men. women and chill
dren oi the South. The brutal and bloody
language of partisan editors and political
preachers have lost US the sympathy of the
civiiized world IN contest where all man.
Kind should be on one side.
Turning to the legislative departments
OF our government, what do we see? 10
the history OF the decline aud fall of nations,
these are no more striking displays of mad
ness and folly. The nation it's contiru-
an;e IN session is more disastrous than de
feat upon the battlefield. 1t excites alike
alarm and disgust.
Inc pubilo are disappointed in the re-
suits of the war. This is owing to the diff.
erinng objects of the peoi lie on the one hand,
and tanatcal agitators in and out of Con-
gress on the other. In the army, the
Union men of the North aDd South battle
side by side, under one flag, to put down
rebellion and uphold the Union and Con-
stitutIcn. In Congress fanatical MAORI
ty make war on the Union men of the South
and strengthen the hands of secessionists
by words and acts which enable them to
keep alive the flames of civil war. What
is done on the battlefield by the blood, and
treasure of the people, is undone by Soma.
tors Half of the time is spent in factious
measures designed to destroy all confidence
IN the government ct the South, and the
rest IN annoying car army, 10 meddling
with Its operations, embarrassing our Cen
erals aad In publishing undigested and un-