Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-09-15
A Piece orHIsfnrr.

ing that this terrible war might have been
eyaded if their party had been so dispos-
ed.
To sustain US in our statements in this
regard, we make the following extract from \
a speech made in the lower House Of Cor
gress Jolly 10th, 1861. It shows, conclu-
sively, that the asaders of the Republican
party were not willing to agree to any
compromise or concession
and that, onShe other hand, every sub
stantive proposition for adjustment and
compromise, except that Uttered by Mr..
Kellogg, of this State, which received no
favor from the Republican members, came
from the South:
And now, sir, how comes it that the
President has forgotten to remind Us, also,
that when the party thus committed to the
principle OF deadly bate and hostility to
the slave institutions Of the South, and the
men who had proclaimed the doctrine of
the irrepressible conflict, and who, in the
dilemma or slterpatISe Of this conflict, were
resolved that 1.-THE cotton and rice fields Of
South Carolina, and the sugar plantations
OF Louisiana, should be, titled by free la
bor," had obtained power aud place in
the com mon Government Of the States, the
South, except one State, choose first to de-
maod solemn constitutional guarantees for
protection against the Tremendous power
ard patronage and influence of the FEEDER
al Government for the purpose oe securing
the great end of the sectional conflict,
without resortiDg to secession or revolution
at all? .-.-.- ,.'.-..--' =
Did he not know-bow could he be iyuo.
rant-that, at the last session Of Congress,
every substantive proposition for adjust
ment and compromise, except that offered
by the gentleHsu from Illinois, (Mr. Kel.
loggi-and We all know how that was re-
ceiyed-came from the South? Stop a
moment. and let us see. ,-t
The committee Of Thirty-three was NOV
ed for in this House by gentleman from
Virginia, the second day of the session.and
received the votes of every Southern Rep
resentative present, excepting only the
members from South Carolina, who declin
ed TO vote. .... r......,,-.,...s
In the Senate, the committee of thirteen
was proposed by Senator from Kentucky
(Mr. Powell, and received the silent ac-
quiescenee OF every Southern Senator pres
eut.
The Crittenden propositions, too, were
submitted also by another Senator from
Kentucky, (Mr. Criltenden,) row a mem.
Der OF this House; u man, venerable for
his years, loved for he virtues, distinguish
ed for bis services, hoDored for his patriot
ism for four and forty years Senator, or
IN other public Office; devoted from the
hrst hour OF bis manhood to the Union of
these States and who, though he himself
proved bis courage fifty years agO.up0n the
battlefield against the foreign eremie les OF
his country, is now, thank God, still for
compromise at home, to day. Fortunate
IN long and well-spent life Of public SER
vice and private worth, be is unfortunate
only tbat'he has survived Union, aud,
fear, constitution, younger than him
self. = F..
The Border State propositions, also,vere
projected by gentleman from MARYLAND.
not DOW member Of this House, and pre-
sented by Q gentleman from Tennessee. (Mr.
Etheredge,) now the Clerk of this House,
And yet all these propositions coming thus
from the South, were severally and repeat
edly rejected by the almost united vote of
the Repnbhcan party in the Senate and
in the House.
The Crittenden propositions, with which
Mr.. Davis, now President of the Coufeder-
ate States, and Mr.. TUornbs, his Secretary
OF State, both declared. in the Senate, that
they would be satisfied. and for which eV-
cry Southern Senator and Representative
voted-never, on any occasion, received
one solitary vote from the Republican par
ty in either House.
The Adams or Corwin amendment. So
called, reported from the COMMITTEES of
Thirty-tbree, aud the only substantive
amendment received from the Republican
slde,wa but bare promise that Congress
should never be authorized to do what no
sane man ever believed Congress would at.
tempt to do-abolish slavery 10 the States
where it exists and yet, even this propo-
sluon, moderate as il was, and for which
every Southern member present-except
one-was carried through this House BY
but one majority, after long and tedious
delay, and with the utmost dif6culty-65
Republican members, with the resolute and
determined gentleman from Pennsylsania,
tMr. HIckmaD) at their head, having
voted against it and fought against it to
the very last"
The more the stubborn persisteucy off
Republican members in Congress, in re-
fusing to agree to measures Of Cancellation
to prevent the war and perpetuate the
Union, is considered, the more black doee
appear their crime. And yet this class Of
politicians are the men who DOW seek to ar.
rogats to themselves and their political
associates ell the virtue and patriotism in
the land. while Democrats, who Iabored
increasingly to avert the war aud to pre-
vent dismembermeDt of the Union, are
Denounced as traitors, unfit for any place
but tie Internal regions.
Win the patriotic people, those who de-
sire the restoration of the Union, vote
hereafter to keep the party and men in
power through whose fanaticism and par.
tizanism The nation was permitted to drift |
into this unnatural and terribly cslamitous
war? e osd ass s-ise
Let the Democracy keep these facts
prominent during the approaching political