Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-06-23
The True Friends OF the Union
and IFS real enemies,

The True Friends OF the Union
and It's real enemies...-..
The Abolition press, including the Jol-
let Republican, of course, are continually
harping upon the USion and claimingt 70
be its trne friends, and charging Demo
Gratis and those who do not scquiesce in
the policy offhe Adminissratioh as symPa.
thizers with rebels and traitors.
Now, let US. look at this matter fos
moment, and see who are the Traitors aid
who are the Union men.
The true friends of the Union are those
who believe that the constitution Of the
United States is the supreme law Of the |
land, and that in the observance of its sa
cred provisions our safety as nation de-
ponds; and that while it is the duty Of the |
government to deal vigorously with armed |
rebellion, it is equally it's duty to pursue
such policy towards the people Of the
States in which rebel! exists. as will in.
duce them to return to their alIegIauce and
convince them that their rights under the
constitution rictly maintained.
O, the other, hand the real enemies of
the Union, apart frVm the eecessionists of
the South, are the Aboliti nists of the
North who would tramTle the constitution
in the dlst aud would see the Union brok>
en- intn thousand fragments, rather than
see a restoration the Union as cur faith
ers mlde IT, The Kind Of Union they
want is an Abolition Uaion with four mil
lion Of lazy, thrIftless negroes turned loose
upon the country, to enter into competition
with poor white laborers To this class
belong the great majority of the Republi-
can party, together with the President
and majority of bic constitutional advis-
ers.
To prove this We need bat refer to the
course Of the Republican majority in Con-
gress ard the Administration. They pre-
tend to be for the Union and yet are pur>
suing policy which must lead to the to
tai destruction Of Unicn sentiment in the
/ Southern and B rider States, consequently
/ make the restoration Of the Union an i'm
possibility. They have persisted in fore.
| ing their unconstitutional and obnoxious
emancipation measures upon the country,
against the unanimous protests Of constitu-
tional Union men everywhere. ...
Among the radical measures which have
been forced upon the country by the Ado
ltionsts and the Administrator, we will
name the act sbOli>hIng slavery in the dis
trict Of Columbia, the eonfscation bill, the
/ general emancipation edict Of January last
and the armins Of negroes. While the en-
rights Of the citizens, and tend to over
/ throw the UDIon, they are powerful srgu
ments in the hands Of southern leaders to
bolster up the bogus coufedaraGy.
We further hold that the radical and
unconstitutional pulley of the party in pow
/ er have done more to strengthen the rebel
cause and impel the SJu,hern people to a
| continual resistance TO the authority Of the
government than all other causes put to-
/ gsther. II has enabled the Southern l3ad>
: ers to verify their oft-repeated predictions
that the Republican party intend to invade
their constitutional rights and abolish sla-
very. And it has resulted in consolidating
/ the people OF the South almost as one man
against the government, instead Of winning
them back TO the Uuicn
Hence we think il must appear clear to
every intelligent mind, that the Repubh-
can party, in It's present attitude, is d.
rectly opposed to a restoration of the Un-
! ion as it existed before. Their radical
measures, Unless speedily abandoned, and
a more rational, conservative and constitu-
tional policy inaugurated, will precipitate
she country into anarchy and irretrievahle
ruin
The Union now, as in ell times past,
finds Its true friends in tho masses of the
Democratic PARTY. They are for the I'm
ion as it was, and the constitution as it is.
Upon this platform they stand, and will
cling to it the closer when the storm Of
radicalism RACES the hardest around them.