Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-08-11
Reduced TO Points.

II it is supposed the public judgment !
may be deceived by falsehood and city |
Jogging into belief that negro soldiers
are employed by the administration from
regard to the public interest, We give no.
tice to those INDUCING such hailucination,
that they must confront and overcome
these faults:
l. That their employment was contrary
to the construction of international law
and enforced by US against Great Britain
in compelling from her the payment for
negroes whom she had employed as SOL
diers;
9. Their employment was opposed by
all parties, save the ultra sbOlitionists, and
has been q prime element in the division
| of public sentiment in the loyal States,
aud has exaspersted and united the people
of the South;
3. If. when the policy was introduced,
| it was believed any considerable number
of negro soldiers could Se obtaiued, it 10
now demonstrated that the attempt 10 o
failure;
4. There lie not 90 instance where negro
soldiers have been introduced in the army
that collision been them and white soldiers
has not followed.
5. Their employment has led to sys.
tenn Of retaliation Gu both sides, resulting
in the butchery of defenceless prisoners.
6. If the JOlicy shall be continued, the
Confederates will arm their slaves. aud We
shall have these additional forces to over
cone.
7. The plea BY which their employ
ment in the first instance was justified
that the South had just commenced the
system-is shown to be false by the letter
OF the Richmond correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, whish has renewed the dis
, cussiOn upon this question.
! 8 That We csbnot hope that our people
will willingly engage III war when, il
taken prisoners, their doom will be impris-
, onment or execution;
9. That every negro we can obtain can
lie more probably employed in our armies
10 other capacities aud our soldiers prefer
they should be otherwise employed
~. II We engage to discontinue their
use as soldiers, the Confederates will moi
n imploy them as such
Y IL. That if the fearful system Of retail
Q iation already begun, and thereatened to b
!. continued, by both parties. is enforced, ",
e cannot expect civilized nations to refrain
e from interference.
d And lastly, We are condemned by GU
70 own construction of international law o
IL VIGIL as 0J Iue koutEhl an
,r connot justify ourselves before the world II
such policy.
% Here are dozen irrefutable facts, eac
3 Of which is conclusive against the policy -
re The democracy have said they were willn
n. this experiment should be tried, as only b.
it's trial could abolition clam or respecting
N be silspced. Now that is a demonstrate
10 failure, and is perilng the lives Of our 50
g, Ciers who are 10 the hands OF the enemy
a. and inevitably leading to the arminG
their slaves by the C,nfederates. it wOuI
N be criminal longer to remain silent. "
hare not today sir thousand efcctire negT
troops an the field. Let US have no NOR
y OF deception IN this matter. Let US hes
no more OF regiments where there are tW
e white officers to one negro soldier. Th
II nation has been too long deceived by th
wlIful promulgat Of falsehood by Ii
highest ofhcers OF the government and ii
% deliberate misrepresentation of the IT.,
Dunes Of the press. Their "infernap ha
- red and fanatIcism is now urging upon th
~ country system Of warfare cqualing
-, atrOcity to the Syrian mssst ores or the T,
u volt Of the Sepoys. The adminstratic
of can. without loss of horror, treat with Il
% CODfederates for the discoD tinuance of Il
al policy. If it refuses or negIects to do s
bs on its head. aud on the heads of the arch
'IU agitstors whose "pressure" led to its ado
"a. tiOu, will he the blood Of our murders
To- prisoners and the soldiers uselessly sla
NJ 10 q contest with the armed slaves Of a
-. SJutb.-ChicdgO Times.