Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-12-08

There is q great desl said about Union
and disunIon parties at she North, the Re-
publicaus claiming that theirs is the only
true Union Tarty.
Now, we propose to examine this matter
briefly, that our readers may see wba.
grounds the Republicans have for assum-
ing that oil who Dc Dot belong TO the Abo-
lition party and vote IS the officers Of the
Loyal League societies may dictate, are
disunIoniEts at heart. f.--...
So far from this claim Of the Abolition
leaders being founded n truth. it must be
apparent to every one who has watched
the course of the Republican party, that a
dissolution Ct the Tn on is the Object aud
result for which that party has / 'ng labor
ed aud is still laboring For years prev
iuus to the outbreak of this rebellion it
made no concealment Of it's hostility to the
constitution and Onion.
| The rlllyipg cry Of the Republican par.
! ~. ever since it's organisation, has been to
''let the Union slide" unless AbolitiODism
can have fill sway over the land. These
fanatic. leaders will listen to no terms for
n restl ration of IbS Union, unless the abo-
lition of slavery be accomplished. 10 9th
or words, they are in favor CT separation
of the free from the lave states, or the
/ al lishment Of our present constitution
and form of government and the eubstitu.
tion Of an empire in it's stead having AbO-
lition and negro equality as the founda
ton. a.s.s se.
The fact lie, the Abolition seoesSionists,
under the sacred cry of preserving the In.
ion ere hitting its overthrow, and deter.
| mined to drive the two sections 60 far
apart that reconstruction will be impossi-
bic. Their very party organic .tion, upon
. sectional basis, was, as Washington fore-
told it wuuli be in HE Farewell Address, a
PrOpcsiti for dIss' lutiOn Of the Union.
And Grstley, and Seward, snj Lrvtjay,
AID Wade, and Sumner, and the other
leaders Of the Republican party, favored
and upheld measures which urged the
South cut # the Union aud brought on
civil war.
But when the Republican party, or more
properly speaking the disunion party,
found at the North party powerful
enough to resist it's feDdish work, it trim
med its sails so as to catch the popUl ar
breeze. set up q hypOeriticsl howl for the
Union, and is now the most loud mouthed
in yelping traitor" to cover up, and draw
attention from, their own misdeeds.
HOWeVer it is not necessary to waste
more time to Prove tie hOstility of the Re-
publican party to the Union as it was
The mode of conducting the war, the
aVOwed purposes Of the Admir- istrat ton,
raise barriers against 6ual recuusrrue.
ton, and look to eternal separation or com.
plete suiiugstiOn to the views of Adolf
tionism as the results Of the war. 80
The Democratic party. notwithstanding
all the malignant abuse that has been
heaocd upon it, is the only true Union par.
| ty. Upon its triumph and patriotic action
han1 the M In hnnn nr -~-;-,., 1L.- II-sa.. -
II will stand BY the constitution and the
UOicn, end crush out treason both at the
North ind South. 1t has been the life
guard of the Uni1n while the Republicans
were trying to destroy it; and now that it
is attacked by enemies both North and
South, it will try to rescue it from the i'm
pending peril.