Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-11-11
The Elections.

Inc contest tnat has been gong on
throughout the land, string and heaving the
public mind for the last three months, is
now at an end, so far as the ballot is con-
cerned. aud the virdict of the people has
been rendered adversely to the policy and
measures of the "powers that be-"
All nations, as well as mep, have crisises
Or turning points in their histories. And
We regard the result Of the elections re.
Gently held in several of the loyal States
as an Indication that the Republican, party
lie near its end. Ithas managed the affairs
Of this nation about eighteen months, and
the people have availed themselves of the
earliest opportunity to declare the disappro-
baton in d legitimate manner. The truth
is, Republicanism has been weighed in q
in balance, and found wanting.
At the commencement of this terrible
war, and indeed until the President avowed
his determination to depart from the policy
laid down in his inaugural and endorsed
BY Congress. the Democracy exhibited
little disposition to take antagonis.ic and
separate grounds. They were in favor of
sustaining the Administration in vigor.
ously carrying ou the war, SO long as it was
prosecuted for the defence Of the laws and
the constitution and the res.ora alton of the
Union as it was, but when this patriotic
policy was abandoned, Democrats and
lovers Of the constitution and Union were
compelled to take grounds for recognizing
their party for the rescue Of the country
from impending perils.
The fruits of the movement in favor of
Democratic principles are glorious, and
should open the eyes of the President and
bis advisers to the fact that this is q con-
stitutioual war, waged only for the consti-
tuion and the suppression of the rebellion
and not for the freedom and enfranct ise-
ment Of four millions of negroes.
The people of the great States Of Ohio,
Pennsylvania. Indiana, New York, ILL
nois, New Jersey and Wisconsin, have
passed their solemn condemnation upon the
conduct and policy of the party controlling
the Government. They have spoken in
trumpbet tones and il would be we'll for
the country, if the President and Congress
would listen to the emphatic, if not indig-
nant protest that has gone up from the
freemen of the North aud the West.
The result of these elections will be graf.
flying to white men and the friends of con-
stitutional freedom everywhere. Ii is a
voice against the pulling down Of the altar
of liberty founded upon our glorious con-
stitutioD, and the erection of one in it's
placo dedicated to the freedom Of the black
race. The people of the Great Northwest,
and Pennsylvania, New York, and other
Eastern States, are not ready yet to make
the industry Of white men and white We
mon subservient to the labor of the slaves
of the South. They do not wish to see the
war, commenced for the aYowed purpose of
enforcing the constitution and laws and to
preserve the Union Of the States, converted
into war for the PRONUNCIATION of Alb, Ii
tionism and emancipation. Hence they
have given our rulers to understand that
henceforth, different policy shall be adop
ted.
We are rejoiced that matters have at
last reached turning point and shat here.
after the people will insist upon the ad-
ministration of the Government in the
manner prescribed be the constitution
OF course, for the next year at least, the
Republicans will have control of both the
Executive and Legislative branches Of the
Government but the results of the elections
just held should warn them of the fate thai
awaits their party, if they persist in tram
ping upon the provisions of the constitu>
| ton.
The success of the Democracy will lift
q load Of oppression and dread from the
hearts of patriots aud true loysl men all
over this wide land. And the feeling of
exultation and thankfulness will be taken
up by and spread through oppressed peo-
pie Of the Old World, and renewed hope
will take possession of their hearts.
Democrats will bring the President to
realize tina. be must no longer listen to the
Abolitionists, if he would save the country