Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-05-10
Traitors at the North.

"A &bNUFS tt tnO NOftns
If people were to believe half what ap-
pears in the Abolition papers of the North,
they would believe that there are hundreds
of thousands of traitors aud disloyal men
in the North-in fact that nearly one-balf.
1t not more, were disloyalists. Indeed
every man who does not sustain the Ad-
ministratiOn, not by deeds only. but by
words, according to Abolition authority.
is "Copperbead" and "traiso-."
There may be some difference in stating
this plank Of the platform, as some time
appears 10 the two Abolition papers of
Chicago, the Journal and the Tribune, but
they all accord in the sentiment that Who
ever does not endorse, sustain and approve
all that is done by the men now at the
head Of this Government, is an enemy Of
the Government itself"
When this sentiment was first promnl-
gated two years ago, we thought it a mere
political jUgglo, meant only to bear upon
silly and weakminded people. but 1t has
moved ON and been repeated so often that
it has finally been incorporated into the
creed @! the rigorous prosecution of the
war men" The man who does not sustain
the Administration, its usurnations, its
crazy negro policy, its violations and per-
versions Of the constitution, and its assaults
| upon the State Governments, is put down
as an enemy to the Union, as dsIoyal and
sympathizing with the Southern rebel
lion.
That there are men in the North who
would be glad 30 see division of the Tn.
ion, We have no doubt; they are not found
in the ranks Of the Democratic party, or
among thoseaRho believe that the war, ps
now prosecuted, will never bring us peace
on reunion. The old AbolitlonIsts, with.
| out On exception and many of the modern
/ Republicans. are the disunionisis we have
IN the North. They are the men who have
brought all the mischief upon the country,
and who are laboring TO render the resto-
ration OF the Union an imuOssibility. A
few days since we heard one of these radi.
| Gals deuouncing Democrats as traitors and
| disunionists. We heard him through, and
| then asked him for his sentiments on the
subject of the rebellion. "Whi2 them and
let them CO. SAID he, "as for the restora>
sion of the Union as it was before, we d.
not want it and will NOS have it" And this
Is the creed Of the party and men who de-
nouuce as "Cupperhea aud traitors those
who, in good faith and with every energy
of their lives, are lsboring to arrest the
progress of dissolution.
Democrats are the only true loyal men u
the country. Never have they wavered ii
their supper! of the constitution and tn,
! laws created il accordance Herewith. We
defy any disunion AbJlitionist to point t
an instance where Democrats, as a party
measure, have resisted or counselled re-
distance to any of the arbitrary and extra
constitutional acts done By order of this
Administration. Yet it is becoming
more and more evident every day that
millions who have looked upon this land
as their home, ARE resolving that the ground
shall not much longer drink blood shed by
men who have no cause for any quarrelwith
each other. People are beginning to see
that this cruel war cannot and will not
bring back the States that have withdrawn,
but is only calculated to drive them further
away. They are preparing to sweep from
power, through the agency of the ballot
box, the party and men who are RESPONSE
bic for the continuance Of this murderous
and inhuman war. And then the real
traitors to the Union will receive their
doom,