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

hne FFesI0ent ana lUe UNION.
Last week We published the reply Of
President Lincoln to the iusolent letter of
Horace Greeley. and must cay that II af5r.
ded US sincere pleasure. TIE Presidents
position on the Union question as expressed
in bis letter. should be satisfactory to every
real friend o. the Union. He empkaticsI-
ly discards the doctrines Of the radicals, ard
lays down the platform upon which every
loyal man can stand.
The President has Tlaced it upon record,
more than once, that he means to stand by
the constitution and the Union, come what
may and the radicals are given to under
stand that lie does not sympathiss With
them in their insane emancipation policy.
He has made mp his mind that our Govern
ment is good one, and that it is our SOL
emn duty to do all in ous power to perpet-
uate it and transmit it to coming genera
tons. To acco immediate Horace Greeley
and The class Of politicians who take the
extreme abolition ground, Mr.. Lincoln ill
never agree to give up the broad platform
Of the constitution. II there ever was a
time when the country needed an avowal
ct the character contained in the Presi.
dents admirable letter, that time is the
present. The pernieious designs of the
northern abolition secessionists are obvious.
Time and again has Greeley through the
New York Tribune advocated the destruc-
ton Of the Union. Heretofore we have
given samples Of his abolition secessioui.m
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,
overthrow. BY advocating policy in oppc
sition to the constitution.
From the commencement Of troubles
two polices have been urged upon the Pres
'dent for the suppression of the rebellion
One is that Of extreme severity-of confis.
cation, fire, sword and the halter. The
other is that of vigor in military operation.
till the military strength of the countr,
succeeds in putting down the rebellion snt
restoring the supremacy of the constitution
and re-establishing the Union as it was =
The President believes in the latter policy
as we'll as docs every man who desires 4
see the rebellion ended and the substantial
restoration ofthe 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 noble Wind ication of tn,
true Uhion policy. Let Greeley and BIZ
abolition followers denounce him and BIZ
noble General. as tardy in their movements
vacillatipg and timid in their policy, the
day will come when his policy will tri-
umph and bis course be vindicated.
While Greeley and the abolition seces.
sionists are willing to trample upon the
constitution and to make shipwreck of ths
Union by declaring tie immediate abolition
of slavery, the President and the men who
are in our armies with muskets in their
hands, oelievethat thetrue 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 gu on as before the instruction. 1t
Is only by the Presidents policy. as
against the policy of the radicals, that We
can ever hope to perpetuate the Union.