Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-07-12
The Democratic National Coz
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All eyes are now turned towards the
| Democratic National Convention, which
meets at Chicago on the Goth of August
! Upou its decision hangs the fate of the
Union and constitutional freedom, and ups
on its action the hopes Of patriots through.
out the world repose.
In this hour of great national peril, it
bshooves Democrats to stand firm. The
ultraism which rules the Administration
and violates and tramples under foot the
constitution, will make immense exertions.
to retain power. Every influence, civil,
ecclesiastical and military, will be brought
into requisition to defeat the Democratic
party. Already the work of coercion has
commenced, as the. recent proclamation Of
the President suspending the habeas corpus
in Kentucky testifies. And it will be
prosecuted with vigor, until election. The
elections last year showed what the Demo
Gratis will have to contend against in the
ensuing canvass bribery, military power
and corruption.
As much, and indeed everything de-
Ponds on the action &c the Democratic M.
tioual Convention, it is of the utmost i'm
pcrtance that its deliberations be marked
with calmness and wisdom. 1t should riso
above side issues and personal ends and
aim solely at the public good and the pub,
lie safety
All honest AID intelligent men must adj
NIT that this Abolition Administration has
proved failure, nise:ubls failure, I'M
less, as writer remarks, plentiful crop
of human SOULS, fath6mless gulf Of hu-
man blood, and towering mountain Of
pubhc debt, are evidences of its success.-
The people have lost all faith in its plan
for lestoring the Union, and, we mistake
not, the public sentiment will not trust it
wish.the administration of public affairs
anothe. four years. The laboring classes,
especially will not submit longer to the
rule of the party that has brought such in
pumerable cslamities upon them and the
country. Since the war has ceased to be
q wa-. for the Union there is a growing
sentiment among the masses against fur
! nishing more men and more money for its
prosecution, until change Of policy be
adopted.
1t does not matter so much who tine
convention selects as cur standard bearer
so he be sn honest man and a true friend
of the onion, as it does, the kind of plat
form that may be adopted.
Therefore, it is hoped=that the Represents
tatives of the Democracy, when they meet
in convention in Chicago, will enuuciate
mono other than the old principles of the
party. That 10 their Interpretations of the
| cons titution they will lie guided by the dee.
laratiOns of its authors, by the federal con.
vension that framed it, by the resolutions
of 1893 and 1899. prepared and ezpOunded
by Jefferson and Madison, and by the de
cisiOns of the courts.
The convention must also pronounce
against the ultra policy that is rapidly
sinking this country into rretrievable ru.
in. 1t must declare against the unjusti6a
BILE and unlawful acts of the Administra.
ton. if it would save the country from 6
military despotism au3 national debt the
interest upon which can never be met. Il
must demand the revocation of all uncoB-
stitational edcts and pretended laws.
And the. convention must take the true
ground on the slavery question. 1t mus
leave the question to be dealt with BY the
several States, as was tie original intent
The negro policy of the present Admins
ration has.tendsd to unite. the South and
divide the North, and if not repudiated by
the people, VIII Overwheim the ration in
utter rniuS
FinallyINRe'Demoor party would
succeed anfrtscue the nation from anIim.
tied calamity and ruin, it must enunciat,
a policy calculated to restore peace to oul
distracted country and to establish the su,
premacy of tue constitution once more owe,
all the states.
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