Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-03-24
Letter from Judge sRaEdasa 10
the DOlEet Republican

to the editor of the Joliet Republican forf
publication, who declined to publish it.
sufficiently explains itself.
To the Editor Of tie Joliet Republican:
DEAR SIR-In your paper of the l4tb
inst, find two publications so extraordj.
nary that regret to be compelled to claim |
in justice place in your celamns for a re-.
ply. aliude to the labofed article of Mr. 4
Snapp and yoHt editorial endorsement Of !
claim the right through your column.
because it is but Just that my reply should
reach the same class of readers to which
those publications have already been pre-
seated. This l think you as correct
journalist will admit is bat sheer Justice.
In the'frst Place, / wish in the briefest
possible manner 10 make single al!us;ou
10 Mr.. Snaps communicative. In the
nth paragraph he uses these words;
Now, sir, this is lie number first" and
IN the sixth he uses this otbe. "but /
know one thing that the man that penned
that language kn:lo that he was lWng."
The italics are his.
lODly wish to say in allusiou to such
language that Mr.. Snapp cannot afford 10
compromise bis character as gentlemen
By Its use in public discussion. do not
permit it to disturb me because 1 attribute
1t 10 his IDpulsiVe character. Mr.. Snapp
Wei knows that when a young man With
cut friends who could help him, took him
into my office first as a stndent-tben as a
partner, and finally after sumo wears Of
partnership, gave into bis hands the entire
patronage OF my Office, aud laid for him
the Foundation for that prosperity which
bis energy has enabled him to achieve.
VI al others, then, be would be the last 10
api y to me such language 10 malice. On
another day he will confess to you and to
me both that be ought not to have used
such language towards me at all. -IFmy
reputation Tor truth was on tIiil, I woull
Gil Mr.. Snapp to the stand as q witness
and would agree that his testimony should
decide the issue.
But, sur, word now as to the letter.
On the 1lth Of February last i was in the
oourt House when u letter was brought
me IRON Livingston county, requesting Ine
10 ADDRESS the democracy at a meeting to
De helo IN that county on the 18th. In the
turmoil OF the Business Of the Court sat
Gown az the conuse! table and answered IL,
when heard some three weeks after that
my letter bad been published and had been
the occasion oil the calling of Lublic meet
ing IN this city by SIR. Breckenridge, and
TIE publication Of a pamphlet by Mr..
onapp' looked up paper, containing it
70 see whether IN the hurry of business
hac written any thing ought not TO have
written. % examining it, ! I'd DO word
IN u TO regret though ! nigh: have added
many more. That letter was in these
words:
tHsre 'ca4elpied tie letter Of Judge Ran
dali TO tie Livingston Denaocracy. 1,hich
aeas published an the Signal rectently.)
Now, sir, am frank to say that if the
above letter had appeared with your pub
lIcatl0D, should have silently permitted
your readers TO give it their Cwn eonstruc.
ton. You have undoubtedly seen that "the
18th of March, 1861" which is twice suoken
OF by Mr.. Snapp does not appear IN the
above letter. Mr.. Snapp says that the letter
declares that the present Administration
ionno me country at peace and in a state
OF prosperity unprecedented" aud then
aoos "how a man with any reputation to
lose dare to haunt such a inisrepresenta>
fion before the country is perhaps a little
singular. If you WilI glau ce at the letter
again, Jun will see no such thing Is sajd in
1t. Such misrepresentatiIn demand from
you the publication Of the letter il ynp
WISH to 90 justice either to ne or your
The national engagements" spoken of
i5 tue letter were not the national engage
ments OF President Lincolu, but Of the
Republican party" They were not enter.
% upon IN my Judgment con the 4th of
MARCH, 1867" but when that party frst
took upon itstf the character Of a national
party. l understood them to date hack he
yond the time when Gen. Fremont was a
candidate TOR the Presidency, but how far
oscs' or at what particular time the fusion
OF oisanected factions became 80 perfect as
TO form the republican party, / did not AT
tempt TO define, nor was it material. IaL
iuo l &c 1t as the present party in power il
true, carrying ut what it commcaeed IN
carry nut years before. am frank TO ad.
NIT that our peace and prosperity had been
mucn disturbed before The list os March.
1901" and could date back far beyond
MIR. Snaps rebel quotations.
nave only to cal! TO mind the additi, N.
al Facts that in 1856 the people Of Chicagn
were SO misguided as to subscribe laree
sums OF money and actually to send Guitar
army OF some eighty men to resist tue con
stltoteo authorities in Kansas. or down 10
10Y when John Brown entered Virginia
as an actual Invader, aud when convicted
LOT MS crime and sentenced to be hume the
IonoTlng handful was posted through the
streets Of this very city
"MEETING!"
The friends and sympathisers with
"Capt. John Brown ..He
ARE requested to meet at I'll. Snann's oFses
IN Hawley,s New Block. this Frid Az
evening at O'Clock, Cor cop(ereDes e.,
dec. 2, 1859. Many CIrIzENs
That meeting, ] understand was held a.
tne Time ana place appointed with all dur
9 Sy' on tne evening when John
lows. ~ 'Ne gar
1t was l,ng before this that the repub-
llcans moo6ed Senator Douglas and Toold
not sllo" HIM 10 explain his principles In
the free air Of Chicago. Ee9'r'N''S.
these facts had disturbed the peace and
prosperity OF the county before the s.4th
VI marcn' looZ'" and INTENDED TO charge
them upon the republican party as occur-
iog AFTER t entered npon its national en-
easements" as the legitimate fruits of
party organization upon such sectional
principles. This disposes Of the question |
o! xeracity raised vth Mr. Snapp.
have but single other subject ma tier |
10 refer to. Mr.. S1spp attempts, inferen.
hai'y, to argue that aeuste1aBee resist |
ance TO the conscPiptisa law. I have M, /
read IT, and do not kFoe precisely what il |
Contains, but haze GO hesitaucy to saw
here. as always have said. that no rarty
ought foreibly to resist any Law. Obedi.
ence to the laws lies ct the foundation az