Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-05-31
ReorganIziDg the states I'm re.
3 1s beflion.

Our readers are already swars that a
bill has been pending IN tho Houee OF
Representatives Ct the United States Con-
grtss introduced b. Thad Stevens. for
Tor the relrganizsti5n Of the States 10 re-
belIion. The-ehafacief Of the biz nsV be
ascerta;nsd from reading the following
synopsis Of it:
list No person vbp has bell or exercise
ed any Dffce either civil or military. State
er Confederate, except the Office be merely
municipal, OF military belaw the grade of
cUiooel, under the uenrpine power, shall
have a right vote for member Of the leg
islature Or Governor.
%. Iasbluntafy sersituds Is forever pro-
bibiteds and tbs frsedom Of all persons l.
guaranteed ia4he said State.
81. No debt, Stats or Confederate, created
BY or under sanction Of the nsuruit.t
power. shall be recognised or paid b. The
Ibp IN farsheE 1rgvidss fhss .sssrv|
person s1o spalI befsaffoE Bold = Sxertise
any once, cisil or military. d tie rebel
ssgxlce, State o. c5nfedsf z &. 3 Tespt tif6
ofEpe b merely mhnicipsl o. niiifsrV
below the krade d c5iapel, i deoIareaI pcr
70 BE- eltize1 Of she Uditsd Siatss. 8.
We would desire % know if Il could s.
possible for the ,Amifican Congress &c bs
guilty Of more eunsummate folfyand wick.
ness than is embraced in the project 81
passing law at this time Of The Character
OF the one which has just passed the lower
vote.
II is a notable fact IN connection with
the passage Of this bill through the House
that every Democrat and every representa-.
tive from the border slsve States. includine
even the radicals from the States MARYLAND
and Missouri, voted tOgether against lie
passage.
The author of this bill, the notorious
Thad. Stevens. who bias publicly declared
Ia the House that the Union was aIreadv
dissOtred. and that we should never again
be cursed with the old Union, under the
constitution, if he could help ii, seems to be
determined to make his insane threats
good, 1t 1t be possible, aud the other Re-
publican members Of Congress who voted
with him are equally guilty with hirself
OF nisaccursed treason against their coun-
try.
We feel a moral conviction amounting
to certainty that the Republican oarty are
at heart sc determined to destrov the
Union as JEFF. Davis himself is if they eon-
slider il necessary TO DO 90 in order 20 keen
themselves in power.
Indeed, Grinnell, the John Brown Abo.
litiOn member of Iowa, said few davs
ago in q speech which be delivered Ia
Congress, that sooner than see the Demo.
Gratis again in power (which simply meant
that sooner than be should 20 out of power
himself,) be preferred to see the Union
permanently divided.
Can any man who is not either q traitor
himself, ct heart. or who is NOT carried
away by the freLzy of political partissn
madness, believe that the Union can ever
be restored, while such men as now hold
power in the Councils Of the nation remain
in Office -
Now, when the heart OF the patriot In
cad and heavy over the dreadful susnense
which hangs over tie awful contest Of
arms, which at this moment lie raging be-
tween the conteDding armies Of the Union.
and of the rebels between Washineton and
Richmond, these Internal fanatics. Who
have been sent to Congress, instead of
being engaged in giving all their energies
OF mind and BODY to aid our troops.t to Whip
the rebels, are actually passing laws for
the government of that people alter thew
are conquered, and calculated to make
them fight till the very last man of them
lie killed.-Keoknk Constitution.