Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-07-21

thirteen to thirty-fOur; that We say much
when we say in the language Of New
Hampshire's greatest son, if we can with
assurance say no mOreg The past at least
Is secure" 90.
Dut, we cannot he joyous, my friends,
as we have been on this apuiyersarv let ms
show that It is our privilege. with the HES.
sing OF God, to be considerate. hrava- and
wise. II there be anything of, the great
Inheritance, under existing circumstsnces
to save, may we not, 10 an earnest. hmm,
bic way, contribute to that saivatiooP If
We cannot do sll for which our hearts yearn
may we not at least approach its consum-
nation in that spirit Of devoted loyaly to
the constitution and the Union which we
feelt -esBsG's . -
George Washington and Samuel Adams.
Matthew Thornton and Charles Carroll.
George Reed and Roger Sherman, Philip
Livingston and William Hooper, Beniauip
Franklin and Edward Rutledge, George
Walton and Richard Stockton, with their
associates Of all the thirteen then indepen
dent sosereigp States. stood eiehts-sessb
years ago TO day 10 that simple but most
memorable room. where the Declaration
was signed, like tba people Of the, States
whom the represented, with the solemn
grandeur of high resolve, if apparently
weak. yet with their aruor on and their
hes:ts strung for the great contest of civil
hbery. II we cannot be joyous and sxuIt,
ant on this anniversary Of that day, it NAV
do us good to remember that joy and exui-
tation were lar irom the hearts Of the brave
men who sanctioned the Declaration of In
dependence, and then fought seven years
!" MAINTAIN IT, No they were not Joyous,
but determined They felt the Inspiration
OF great object, and they sought its &C
compl'shmenL with stern devoted self Sac
rIhcing spirit They were animated by
that determination which, in righteous
cause OF self-defence and Standardization. lie
ioVincIois. They knew the condition of
toe province IN clear perception of the
colossal power which they were to confront
But neither one nor the Jther consideration.
nor both combined, shook either their faith
or their courage. They compensated for
tue want OF numbers, arms, and all which
under Ordinary circumstances goes to con-
stitnte the s1news OF war, by the glow of
their patriotism and the strength Of their
rights, but their enduraucs and energg
we're quickeoed by an incalculable mower:
they fought for their homes, their hearth
stones, their wives and children behind
them. 81 assd sad ..s7fn g. = -
Let the disregard of others for what the
revolutionary fathers achieved, aud for the
compact which they made, subdued as
they were in all things but a sense Of right
and honlr BY the sufferiugs of seven
ysars' war, now stand out before US. Let
the people realize what this constant RING
ing in their ears of The charge that "fbe
constitution Is convenant with death and
league with hell" has brought about
Aad then let them see and feel what we
had in eighty years Of uuexampIed pros
perity and happiness under that constitu-
ton. T-- ID. r.r-
Let them look back upon the eighty Years
OF civil libefty-of the reign of constitu-
tional lsw-eighty years Of security to our
homes, Of living in our castle, humble
though they may have been, with no pow
er to invade them by night or by day, eS-
cept under the well defined and exhibited
authority OF Lava written, published law,
enacted by themselves for the punishment
Of crime and for their own protection.
eighty years of the great experiment which
astonished the world.
Ii the people will do this, I will not /
cannot belive that we are so smitten nv in.
dicial blindness that the great mass of our
population, North and South, will not some
day resolve that we come together again
under the old constitution, With the Cd
flag. Cheers will not believe that
this experiment Of mans capacity for self
government, which was SO successfully il
Illustrated until all the Revolutionary men
passed to their fnal reward, is 10 proye
a humIliating failure. Whatever others
may do, we will never abandon the hone
that the Union is to be restored. I"Ney-
err" Whatever others may do, we will
cling to IL las the mariner clings to the
last plank when night and the tempest
close around him." No matter what NAV
have been done North or South to produce
it, this terrible ordeal Of blood which has
been visited upon US ought to be sufficient
TO bring Ne all back TO consciousness of re-
sponsibilities aud duties:
The emotions of all good men are those
OF sorrow and shame aud sadness now over
the condition of their country, when thew
retire at nIght, and when they open their
eyes upon the dsWhing day, struggle a.
gainst them though they may. WHY
should they attempt to disguise it2 Solic-
itude which hinges upon apprehension of
personal danger or personal loss, end that
alone is contemplate. Trihing men NAV
indulge in triflng word or thought. while
the foundations laid by the fathers are
crumbling bepsath their feet; but the ar
tlfcers who laid those foundations found
no time for trifiDg while engaged in their
grand aud serious work, nor can yuu.-
They could Lift up their souls 10 pray
er, but they had no heart for leEiIS add
mirth.
My friends, you have bad-most o: you
have had-great SORROWS, overwhelming
personal sOrrOWs, it may be; but aone like
these which come swelling w, day by day,
from great fountains of national disaster,
red with the best and brssest blood Of the
country, North and SJuth red with the
blood of those Of both sections of the In
ion whose fathers fought the common bat.
tie Of Independence. Nor have these sor-
rows brought with them any compensation
whether OF national pride or Of victorious
arms. For it is not vain 20 appeal to you
to raise shout ofjoy because the men
from the land Of Washington, Marion and
Sumpter, are bearing their breasts to steel
Of the men from tie land Of Warren Stark
and Stockton; or because, If this war is to
continue to be waged, one or the other
must go to the wall, must be consigned to
humiliating subjugatiop. This fearful,
fruitless, fatal civil war has exhibited our
amszing resources and vast military pow
er II has shown that, united, even in
carrying 1ut in its widest Interpretation,
the. Monroe doctrine on this continent, we
could, with such protection as the broad
ocean which flows between ourselves and
European powers affords, have stood a.
gsinst the world in arms. | speak of .be
war as fruitless; for il is clear that, prose
cuted upon the basis of the proclamation or
September % and September "a. 1862
prosecuted. as ] must understand those
prcclsmatiens, TO say nothing OF the kim
dred brood which has followed. upon the
theory Of emancipation, devastation subiu.
cation, it cannot fail to be fruiless in ey.
cry thing except the harvest Of woe which
it rs Ilpenlng for what was once the peer