Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-05-20
Address Of fhe Democratic
Members nfCnngrPSs

paper, the address recently issued to the
people by the Democratic members Of Con
gress.
We would advise every patriot to peruse
the document, and to calmly consider its
merits and suggestions. 1t is certainly
worthy of the attention of the people, COM
ing as it does from the represen tatives of a
party that embraces at least million and
half Of voters.
The address is filed With wholesome adj
monitions, and truths of O character to
command the serious attention of every
we'll wisher Of the Republic. The great
principles therein repeated, have constitu-
ted the bases from which our national
prosperity has emanated, and upon which
the Union has been preserved through ali
vicissitudes, until the present troubles drew
the cloud Of civil war around us.
In this hour Of adversely, doubt and
danger, it was proper that the genuine
friends Of the country should syeak in its
behalf. The Republicans, of course, take
grounds against the address. 1t is too
Democratic and just to suit their princi-
pies. And besides its wholesome truths
appeal to the patriotism and Judgment of
every honest, candid mind.
Most beautifully does the address of our
Congressman meet the present OCCASION
The party in power have ran rampant and
the solemn provisions Of the constitution
are regarded as of no binding force. In
deed SO notorious and frequent have these
usurpations become, that the administers
ton is beginning to be justly regarded with
distrust.
Right glad are we that our noble repre-
sentatives il Congress have defined the po-
sition Of our party. In this hour Of peril,
when abolition fanaticism is trying to un-
dermine and destroy cur glorious institu>
tions, it is peculiarly appropriate that tho
Democracy should come to the rescue
The address Of the Democratic members of
Congress is an admonition from which our
Republican rulers should learn lesson
1t shows that the people claim the rights
guaranteed to them by the constitution :;
and that the cry Of treason and no-party-
ism has been played out. The people are
now beginning to deal with facts and p1inei
pies, and no threat Or menace will drive
them from examining into the acts of our
rulers and protesting against whatthey
ueenu IMPROPER, FnexpecIent and unconsti-
tutiOnal.
Asfor ourselves, we most heartily en-
dorse the address. We believe it speaks
the truth ; and we know that it enunciates
the true doctrine Ct the Democracy. 1t is
30 Tartjzau appeal, but calm declaration
Of principle, and just rebuke to the fanat.
ic'sm that rules the hour. For the last
twelve months the Democrats in Congress
have labored to turn aside tho Black Re,
publican maelstrom that has been gradual
ly drawing our nation into the jaws Of
destruction. Appeal after appeal and
protest after protest have been offered to
stay the mad career of the men who seem
to be bent upon the ruin of tho Confedera>
cy, or the triumph of their own cherish
ed isms. To stay this tide of Republican
ism, that is gradually undermining our
glorious institutions and rendering re-
construction Of the Union impossible, is the
mission of the Democratic party.
The recent ultra abolition measures
adopted by Congress are enough to open
the eyes CT the people as to their real de
signs. They are willing to cacrifi ce the
Union aud the peace and prosperity of the
country thatthei own dogmas may pre-
vail
To stay this tide of disIoyalty and trea-
son, will be the aim of every Democrat in
the future, and the Democ address,
which appears in our columns to day, is
text to 60 by.