Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-09-08
CREATORS Among U.s."

Il becomes serluus question whether
the conservative majority OF the people Of
this country are authorized in accepting
the belief that the principles of the radical
party are truely represented by the news
papers aud public speakers who profess to
ennnciate their doctrines. For, if these
public opponents of political doctrine and
practice &c indeed correct exemplars Of the
party they speak for, then is that party
not only the most corrupt but the most
dangerous party ever organized in this or
any other country.
The expression is strong, but truth re
auires it, Nv form of hostility to cOnstitu-
ton, law, or liberty can be named which
these men and these newspapers do not
counsel and urge on their followers. Aud
this they do in language designed to in
flame to violence, and sometimes in phrases
that should disgrace the purleus of voice
and shame.
The underlying principle upon which
they are now acting is this: That it is
treason to oppose tfem, their plans of whole
sale rnbbery and fraud, their debssement
of the country TO the yilest purposes Of
pluuder. They declare that any one who
finds fault with the manner in which pub
lie AFFAIRS are conducted is a traitor. They
propose in moments Of passion to inGugurate
mob law, and proceed at once to hang men
who dare to Ihink that supporting the
government" is not Synonymous with
plunging the hands deep into the treasury,
and filling the pockets OF contractors and
venal editors with gold coined from the
peoples sweat and blood. The leading
New England and New York journals in
the interest of the radical party are nOtOri-
Uusly involved in government gun contracts
navy agencies, and other means Of sup
porting the government, and the streets
ring with histories Of transactions in which
leading radical politicians are implicated,
wherein they have grossly defraUded the
government, and yet these unwhipt scOun-
,drels have the satanic impression to pre-
tend 20 be loyal men. patriots. the especial
guardians Of their cOuntry's honor aud
welfare
Will honest men approve ty .heir votes
the misrule Of faction not only concerned
in these vast yillainIes, these infamous
robberies, but faction whose principles
declare that they will punish as a traitor
any man who finds fault with their man
Agement?
How long must the patience Of the
patriot permit these curses of our land
tbese radical pluuderers of the treasury,
to bold up their hands among US Has
the new doctrine which they inculcate
gained hold on :hs people? Do we in
deed believe that it is treason 10 America
sOr men to think and talk. but no treason
for men to rob the government and prey
spon it's vitality Our ears bave been
deafened by their loud cutlery Of treason
against men, no one of whom has done
single act Of treason. They vociferate
"traitor" till breath fails. but it is. always
against men who have spoken, or thought
Of, doctrines distasteful to them. Yet they
are "mute as mice" against their allies,
their companions, MISUNDERSTANDING
treason, acting treason from day to day,
and the worst Of treason, forasmuch as il il
insidious, willy AID deadly-Loaisrilte
Journal.