Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-06-21
We Cannot Escape History

IN Mr.. LinGoln's letter to Nj. Hodges
of Kentucky. he says 1--WE cannot escape
history" aud to this aEbiter sRys the Ball
eton Alas, we intend to submit the follow
ing passage found in that letter:
Nov, at the end Of three ears strug
gle, the nations condition is not what
either party or any man devised or expect.
ed"
Now let us summon to our aid the rec
ord Of the past, that we may be enabled to
see if il confirms the correctness oflhe
above extract. a record of that psrty Of
which Mr. Lincoln Is the Chief
Helpers Impending Crisis, which was
indorsed-by sixty-twO republican memb ers
of Congress. and for gratRitUus dissemina.
ton of which, S3,5lS were given by the
leaders of that partyl says:
alt is our solemn duty to abolish slavery
or die in the attempt."-Page ~.
''rhat against shareholders as a BODY.
We wage On interminatipg war."-Puge
I20.
I'VE are welded to one purpose, from
whnh no earthly power can divorce US -
We are determined to abUlish slavery at all
bszards. - Page l49.
Here. then, is the record of device
adopted by the republican party bS which
to destroy slavery.
That that party bad determined on the
final arbiLrament of the sword and civil
var is evidenced by the admission of the
New York Times, in it's issue Of March 6,
1854, as follows:
''gbe con federaoy wanted peace, and sent
commissioners to Washington to secure it.
We wOsli not receive them aud proclaimed
war !"
That tb t party not only expected, but
actually predicted, and even welcomed
the present conditioned things, is album
dainty proved by the following:
II have only 20 add, under a rnll sense
of my responsibility to my country and my
GId, deliberately say-beiter disuu;on,
better servile war, better anything that
GJd in his Providence shall send, than
an extension Of the bonds Of slavery."-
Horace Mann, in the house Of representa-
tises.
"Already the muster hos begun. The
strife 10 no longer local but NATIONAL
Even now, while speak, portents hang on
all the arches Of the horizon, Threatening
80 G&rken the broad land, which already
yawns with the mutteriDgs of civil war.
narshsling hostile diyis.
aIOub duG aOEeouuuuWluB Skfilb Wulc0 WEI
become RRr-fTaticidaI, parac;dal war
with an accumulated wick eduess beyond
the wicksdses9 of any war in human IN.
nals."-Chafies Sumner, in q. s. Senate,
May %, 1856.
Better that confusion should ensue-
better thst Siscord should reign in the ma
honal couneiIs--better that congress should
break M 10 wild disorder--Day, better
that the capitol itssN should bIaze by the
torch OF tbs incendiary, or fall and bury
its inmstes beneath It's crrmiIiue ruins -
horace Greeley On the Kansas Nebraska
bill.
Who bslieSee. then, 10 the face Of thase
facts. that thsrepuhhcaR party did not ex-
meet GiFil war;
War 10 its mildest fprm is fcnd who
holds nigh revel upon fields Of carnage and
Ssath-drinking deep libstion OF human
blood, warm drawn from human hearts--a
"hOrrid king besmeared with blood of hu-
man sacrifices and parents tears" But
upon the Iabarum Of civil war Is Inscribed
in characters Of ere and blood, Ruin of
country, and home, and hope, which is
eShosd back from every hamlet and hill
top by the shrek of despair
SIT turns TO madness reasonls hour, {
-And man into demon changes