Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-08-11
Policy Of the Administration.

Policy Of the Administration.
The last twelve months have developed
mare fully the policy of the Administra-
ton, and the object in conducting the war
as.demaneed by the radical element OF the
country.
President Lincoln is ambitious OF q re-
election and hence yields to the counsels Of
the AbOIitiOnistS. In order TO gain the |
applause and support Of the fansticsl, he |
lends bis immense power to the fur~
therence of their pernicious doctrines.
A correspondent Of the st. Louis Re
publican, writing from Washington, lays
down the programme Of the party to which
Mr.. Lincoln has yielded acquiesceDse.-
This radical party, who now have the
Administration to do their bidding, and
have only sustained the war because it
promised opportunities OF overriding all
constitutional barriers to the success Of
their fauatical opposition to slavery and
shareholders, loyal and disloysl, now bold
ly and de6antly Insist that the war shall
not stop until every slave is free, sndsvery
rebels property is COn6soated.
| According to their programme It must 60
on, no matter how willing the South may
be to make peace and return to their ale
glance, until all the rebelliOus States are
overrun and occupied by standing armiea,
the State governments abolished and SUI
perseded by the radical satrapS of their
own choosing; the people deprived of ev-
cry right and made pay the heaviest pen.
Alties for their treason. and the country
given up t. the occupation Of negro bond
holders and Northern AbOlitionistS.
This, then, appears to be the policy Of
the Administration. And to carry out this
policy, freeman are to be seized and drag
ged from their quiet homes and made to
peril their lives.
IF the radical Abolition measures, the
con6scstiOn of property, the emancipation
Of slavery wherever our armies gain foot
ing, and the arm;ng of the emarcipared
slaves, are to be persisted ir, then may We
give up all hope of restoration of tn
Union as it was. Our Republic will b
reduced to despotism, wherein uegr
,, equality and negro citizenship will b
the fundamental principle, and our prou
ma tional name will be bl,tted from tn
t. galaxy of nations.
Under this radical policy, the wa
b hence(Orth is not to be prosecuted to re
= store the Union as it was and to secure tn
blessing of liberty and peace to she peopl
=, but as it is now unblushiugly avOwed b
the Loyal Leaguers," is to be prosecute
in spirit of conquest, Of rapine, or lust
% dominion of savage barbarity. Our soldier
/. are no longer invited to march to the mus
Of the Union, but are tU 60 forth to destro
one portion Of it, and 10 lay waste the liant
and the. misguided and exasperated poop
of the South are given to understand tn
IS they Cannot return to the Union witho,
submitting to q vassalsge more AFFECT thu
that of the serfs Of RUSSIA.
If the Administration has fully deterr
s. ined. in defiance Of all the warnings th
have come up from every quarter, to col
y; duct the war il accordance With the Alb
It, lition policy. it would be moro appropria
ID hereafter to have the essrs and strip
erased from our glorious national emble
r. : and to send cur armies forth TO do bait
r. under banners on which "ISu6jugGtion al
se determination" are inscribed.
i, But let US hope that We are not get Civ
- up to destruction. Let US hope that &
I'd bad men, South and North, will soon
nd thrust aside, aOd that men who will
~ governed by reason humanity and law, il
a stead of fanatical jealousiss, and inordina
thirst for power, will take their places. L
OF us trust to the ballot-box to wrest the F
ne public from the dangers which encompa
i Us, and siaud firm By the constitution
n the fathers made it, and the storm may }
ed pass away and free government be re-est'
~ ~ lished.