Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-09-29
Fruits rRepubLLcanIs1n.

Fruits OF RepubIICND1Sm' 4
Previous to the last Presidential election
the people were cautioned by the DEMO-
cratic press against the dangers and perils |
of electing Chief Magistrate on a sectional
platform--a platform anlagonistic to the
constitutional rights and interests of the |
people Of a portion of the States. And |
Democratic speakers and Democratic citi
zsns everywhere warned the electors ofthe
impending Consequences.
But ell these timely sdmonitions and
warnings were of no avail, Ths people,
excited and cfazed by wild and wicked
fanaticism, rushed into the vortex, and
Abraham Lincoln was elected President of
the United States, and the people Of the
South given to understand that heuceforlh
their wrights would be in the keeping of
the men who had sworn eternal enmIty
against their institutions. This result
caused secession and as secession caused
the war, we cannot see why the triumph of
the Republican party on the Chicago plat
form, was not the immediate cause of the
terrible calamities that have fallen upon
our nation and people. an
Without discussing this subject further
atthis time. we shall refer to some of the
fruits of the triumph of the Republican
party in 1860
The triumph of the Republican party
was scarcely announced before the South
ern States, as had been predicted by Demo
Gratis, commenced to sever the bonds that
had rendered the Union great, and prosper
Gus, and powerful, for more than three
quarters Of century. And as the designs
of the d0miuan. party became manifest
in the refusal to accept of the Crttenden
Compromise or other measures of ADJUST
ment and pesci6cstioD,. the work of dis
membermept increased until nearly half
the States Of the Union had solemnly avow-
ed their intentions to secede.
The Republican party, after having driv-
en- the South to these acts of desperation,
would not listen to consultation but inaug-
uratsd measures for coercion and subiu.
| cation. And the result is before the
world. .. -'.-.- 80
We have had but TWO years and half of
| Republican reign, but their history affords
much for reflection. In that brief period
of time our glorious cOnfederacy of thirty
four sovereign and prosperous States has
been broken and war. dire and bloody, has
spread abroad its appalling scenes. More
than two millions of soldiers nave been en-
gagged in the work of devastation, ruin and
death, and our land has grosned from the
weight of vast ordnance and implements of
destruction. .-. ,.-s .-s
Virginia, whilom the mother Of patri-
OTIS and Statesmen; Kentuckey. renowned
for the chivalry of her sons, Tennessee. the
home of Jackson and Polk Missouri, that
gave Benton 20 the nation; besides the
States of Arkansas, louisiana, Mississippi,
and Kansas, have been the scenes Of pill
lage, devastation and ruin. Indeed, in
some of these States the work Of destruc-
tion has been complete. Dissolution by
sword and FIRE, of wealthy cities, towns, vii
lagos, and residences; the clash of arms
and the walls of the dying, mark the pro-
gress of this wicked war.
In the North this two and half years
reign of Republicanism, has beena sad
Une. Let the widows and orphans, in sad
tones, and the countless grief everywhere
tell the mournful tale. There is scarcely
family that does not mourn the loss of 6
dear one, or household that has not beer
broken by the surrender of some of it'
members to Join in the work of blood. Il
is estimated that over four hundred. thou,
sand lives have been sacrificed in the war
and the MAIN ed and broken human being
:. that fill the country, bear constant evidences
Of the deadly conflict. .r .-s
! =. Our excellent contemporary of Chicago
the Times, furnishes us with list of othel
. favOrs which this Republican reign ha
e supplied us with: 1t has erecheE for oul
= accommodation numberless military prize
e sons ; furnished us lavishly with nilitar,
f authority, spies and informers. after tn,
t manCer Of Austria; has blesse6 US with al
army Of tax-gatherers and hungry oficial
who consume the substance of the people
has initiated US into the experience Of The
stamp act, and en- led upon us a natiot a
debt of immense magnitude; and has de
monstrated that Americans can excel tht
] world in thieyipg and corruption,
f Such are some of the monuments Ct THU
e Republican reign-of the violation of the
3 policy and principles as laid down by
: Washington and adhered to by all of hil
wise successors, in the ministration o
the government. Let the people take heeC
that it be not continued longer than TIT
period when it can be legally oVerthrowD
d A Republican Convention.
We notice by the last number of TIT
| Joliet RepudlicdR that the shoddy patriot