Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-10-13
Bill OF Indictment against the
REPUBLICAN, PGrly.

$780, Republican PGrIy.
The following is the bill of Indictment
against the Republican party. embracing
charges of no ordinary character:
1t has preferred civil war. involving
necessarily the sacrifice Of hundreds Of
thousands of lives, and public debt Of
thousands Of millions of dollars. to peace.
ful adjustment of our difficulties.
It has signsl;zsd the first year of its
Accession to power by the overthrow If
those guarantees Of personal freedom which
the constitution had thrown around the
citizen.
l. arrests Law abiding citizens at the
dead honr Of breaking cren doors
and Vi"latirg the sarcitv Of home-srd
Transporting them ont Of the State without
warrant of law.
1t imprisnna citizrns in hastiles without
charges. and releases them after montbs Of
detention without trial. and without knowI.
edge rs to who we're their accusers.
When citizens were arbitrarily arrested
and imprisoned, and who employed cour-
sci for their own protection AID relief,
it has warned the unfortunate victims that
to employ counsel world only aggregate
their condition and postpcns their release.
1t has issued a war policy. and then TO-.
lowed it with a military order threatening
any citizen, who shall talk Of such wur
policy disapproVinsly. with trial and pun.
ishment by military commission.
1t tramples upon The writ ofhabeas COR
pus. ard threatens the judges who may
Issue it with military punishment.
1t claims for the President. during a
rebellion. unlimited power to do as he
pleases, regardless of constitutional re-.
shaints.
Its prime minister, tn chow that the
President had more power than the snv.
ereign of England. declared to a represen-
tatlVe of the latter. that he. the prime min.
| lister, could touch bell on his right hand
and have arrested citizen Of OHIO and
| touch another IN his left and have arrest.
| ed CITIZEN of New York.
1t tramples under foot the freedom Of
speech, OF the press, and of public discus
sion ; and declares that these great rights
must, during rebellion. yield to military
uecessity-the military being the judges of
that necessity.
1t has Inundated the manhood of the
| American people, by the point Of the BAY.
onet, to submitto what would have moved
European public to revolution.
1t has stationed armed soldiers at the
! polls to intimidste The voters and overawe
| the judges of election.
1t believes that the blacks are equal to
whites, and strives to place them on the
same level, though at the expense of ruin
cd country and an Impoverished posterity.
1t aims to change our government from
free ana glorious republic to consoli-
dated central despotism-frnm a strong
people and week government to weak
people and a strong government
1t has sent this glorious country on the
d'wn-hiIl to ruin. and then turned in and
robbed and pIur dered it while they were
destroying it.
These Charges are but a small portion of
those contained in the indictment, and urnn
which the Republican party wiR be ar.
raigned.
Aud if we mistake not the intelligence
patriotism and honesty Of the people. the
jury TO which the case is referred, thcy
will bring a virdict of guilty against the
Republican party, and it will he 0auished
from the position which tyranny and de-
cepti"n placed it, for the country in tears
and SORROW. in affection and humiliation,
has tasted the butter fruits Of its reign.