Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-02-10
n IFrom The Columbus OHIO Statesmanl.
Judge tSaTfIey's Indictment
Against the Republican Party

Eighth of January Festival at the Ameri-
can. is this city:
THE FRUITS OF ENTRUsTING THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY WITH TIE ADMINISTRATION OF THE
GOVERNMENT.
States.
2. a bloody, desolating, ruinOus civil
war.
3. More than three hundred thousand
men already sacrificed, and sent prematu.
rely to their fual account.
4. Suffering, mourning, death and desc
lation carried into families in every neigh.
borhood throughout the broad expanse of
the country.
5. More than three millions of men
taken from the industrial pursuits of life
North and South for the deadly conflict.
6. A national bt,including circulating
bills OF credit. Of over two thousand mil
lions Of dollars, already created, and moth.
ing beneficial to show for it.
7. More than five thousand millions of
dollars worth of property already Destroy
ed by means of the war, and vet the pros
poet for a restoration of the Union far dar.
ker than when the war commenced.
s. The annual expenses of Government
increased already from about $S0, 900 900
to about 81, GOO, 600 OO0, and the burden
still more rapidly Increasing
9. A grinding. oppressive, endless bur
den of direct taxation to support the Fed
eraI Government.
10. Millions of dollars expended TO feed.
clOthe, support and educate the negro
slaves, and to purchase their freedom, and
proposition pending for an expenditure
for the purchase of negro slaves, sufficient
to bankrupt the Federal government for
fifty or hundred years to come.
III. Frauds upon the treasury and swim
ding the government contracts to an ex-
tent uDheard Of in any other age or coun.
try; aud to cut loose from all moral and
legal restraints, the most prominent often
der, Simon Cameron, after his dismissal
from Office, not only sheltered, but highly
honOred; and the operation of the law for
the punishment of frauds upon TIE treas
ury, actually suspended by an act of Con
gress.
II. The constitutional currency Of the
country virtually suppressed, and rags,
shinplasters, pasteboard and postage
stamps substituted; and an uncertain,
varible standard Of value created. which
must inevitably eventuate in widespread
disaster and ruin to the great industrial
interests o. the people.
ID. The abolition of negro slavery in the
District of Columbia, wholly Unnecessary.
and, to say the least of it, q palpable
breach Of good faith, simply to appease the
rspacity of Northern fauticism, at the ex-
pense IF driving eff huni reds of thousands
of Uuion men in the slave States into the
Southern army.
Il. The unceasing negro slavery agita-
ton; the coufscati N and emancipation
measures at the late session of Congress.
and Ehe prOclamations o. Emancipa alton by
the Generals in the field, and by The Presi-
dent of the United States, confirming the
predictions Of the southern disuninnists as
to the supremacy and rapacity of Northern
Gbclitlon'sm and by these means crushing !
the Union men of the slave States, and |
thereby producing unauimity in the South
in the cause Of the rebelliou.
10. The prosecute, of the war-not in |
that redeeming spirit and concilatory dis !
position required by the nature of the Fed |
eral c0mpact-but with menaCes of subiu- |
cation and determination besides, and IA !
ciliating the escape of fugitive slaves. and
encouraging servIle insurr ectiou.
16. The attempted emancipation of from
loyal Union men, as well as those of the |
rebels-by the simple edict of the Presi
dent.
II. An attempt to turn loose hordes of
negro slaves upon the free States, 20 COM
pete with the white laborer, and to wrancle
for social and political equality with the |
white race.
18. Thousands of good and loyal citizens
"a rod
from their htmes, taken beyond the limits !
OF their States, and confined in political
Bastiles. without the opportunity of a trial. |
and even without being permitted to know
the names Ui the accuSer, or what charge.
if any, has been perferred against them
~. Loyal and patriotic citizens, who are
ready and willing to sacrifice all thew hold
most d9ar, to maintain "the Constitution
as it is, and restore the Union as it was"
denounced as traitors and disIoysl PERSONS.
by political party whose motto is, "a
Union without slavery, or no Union at
all"
20. The freedom and sovereignty of the
States grossly encroached upon. and their
total subversion boldly threatened.
q. The freedom of speech and freedom
of the press, two of the essential bulworks
of civil liberty, "inestimable to froemeu
and ioTf,'a@iiie = tyrauts only" traDpled |
down and crushed to the earth,
-. 1ue writ Of haJeas corpus and the
right of trial by jury, two great essential
safeguards of freedom, and which have
cost mankind so many centuries of toll,
bloodshed and treasure, suspended or
abolished by the mere edict Of the Presis
dent
"a. The edicts and DEGREES of arbitrary
power substituted for the Constitution and
laws Of the land and the creation of a
new criminal code by aud Executive proc>
lama ton.
81. Martial law declared throughout the
United States; not limited to the sphere of
the operation Of the armies in the E1,,,,66
but eAten@t.og all over the loyal States
""nere the civil tribunals have their pow
ers,
%. A new and extensive department of
the Government, consisting of a Provost
Marshal General, and special or subordi-
nate Provost MGrshals and Military COM
mittees in all the cities and counties
throughout the several States with duties,
powers aud salaries of offce-all created,
instituted and prescribed, not by law. but
by the mere edicts of the President and
Repub licau State Governors.
26 Leading and influential organs Of
the Republican Party proposing the sus-
pension of the elective franchise, the post
ponement of elections, and prohibition of
political meetings among the people.
q. The military made supreme over the
civil power. even 10 the loyal States, en-
tirely removed from the operations Of the
armies in the field.
%. The President interposing the Fed
oral nower to aid in reVolutionizing State