Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-04-26
Facts for Consideration.

FAcIS IOr confederation
Three years have passed since President
Lincoln issued his proclamation calling out
twenty-five thousand volunteers. comman-
ding the rebels to dispense within twenty
days, and ordering an extra session of Con-
gross.
The Government debt at that time amour
ted to less than sixty millions Of dollars !
and taxation was scarcely known or felt by |
the TeOple. Our Government was the |
mightiest on the glade. Vast in extent,
reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from the frozen North to the sunny South,
embracing within its limits almost every
grade Of soil and every cline, and rich in
its mineral, agricultural, manufacturing aud
commercial EssOarees. The North and the
South had lived sSgether as a baud of
brothers for more than seventy years, and
our love Of liberty, Of law, of equity and Of
right, had justly won for ourselves and
our country the proud appellation of "the
land of the. free and the home of the
brave"
But Mr.. Lincoln was elected on the prin.
eli les laid down in the platform of bis
party which denied the legal existence of
slavery in the territories; declared the de-
cison Of the Supreme Court of the United
States null ard void, and that there was no
constitution but the Chicago platform.
South Carolina declared that if Mr.. Lin
coin. should be elected on the sectional plat
form she would secede, and she did do so.
| The AbolItiOnists then told US "she was
out in the cold, and could not stand it
three weeks. She had no money and
could not carry her mails-that she was
the only State that would secede," and
even the great man Seward told us that 10
| less than six weeks she would be down on
her knees begging to come back into the
UDion." Six weeks passed, aud she did
rot come back or beg to come back. Thus
Mr. Seward and his party were false prOph
cts.
Time passed on, and by the time Mr.
Lincoln issued his proclamation calling for
the seventy.fve thousand men. State
after State had seeded until large por-
ton of our country was practically out of
the Union and running a separate govern
ment.
The lying Abolition journals, corrupt
politicians and dishonest statesmen of the
North deluded the people into the belief
that there was nobody of any account in
the South, that the Southern people could
not fight, and that sevanty-6ve thousand
men would whip them into the Gulf of
Mexico in less than sixty days. Indeed we
heard our Congressman in a speech il this
city utter such a declaration.
But how greatly have the peoEls been
deluded by the party in power. The
seveuty-fve thousand men were not sufi
cient to put down the rebellion 10 sixty
days, but the number Of men have been en-
! larged to two millions, and the time extern
ded indefinitely. Hundreds of thousand
of lives have bosn sacrificed, millions 0
homes have been darkened by the shadov
f Of great griefs, and huEdreis Of thousand
}. of brave men have been manned for If
and will have to drag out miserable exis
tepce. And billions Of money have beer
expended and the fairest portion of on
land ruined and desolated to save the sink
-. ing fortunes of the Empire, but the rebel
$ lion is as strong to day as it has been q
any time since the conflict commenced.
Hence, Mr.. Lincoln has run the Cove
nent three years ard our country has beer
delugcd IN blood and hundreds of thous
9 guds Of our best citizens have been elaugh
tered, and our national debt has run u
, from sixty millions to over three thousan,
millions. Corrupt and dishonest govern
e ment officials have stolen our money, rob
bed and defrauded our solIiery. Our Con
? gress have long since ceased to legislai
: for the white man, but waste time in wrau
r 81 ng over the almighty niger" and pas
, sing laws subversive Of the constitution
Greed, speculation, corruption, venalit
' have crept into sill the departments @
the Government, and the only rule nov
observed by these calling themselves 18th
Government" is to steal, llunIer and de-
, fraud the people, to build up scrip arts
tocracy and to change the form cur Gov
ernment from a republic to military des
potisu.
God grant that our corrupt rulers ma,
not utterly destroy the Government beGor
-. the next election when the people viii
rescue it from their grasp and save it, i
possible, from the worst of calamities.