Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-11-01
Truths for Voters.

have lately Deen eoln TO foreign capitalists |
for gold. Agents of the government have
been sent to Europe, where bonds have
been negotiated in almost fspuluus amount
at the rate of two dollars aud q half 10
United States bonds for one dollar 10
gold.
The throwing of this specie in the money
market has essed up the price and brought
greenb ackS up to nearly fifty cents on the
dollar and sent wheat down to one dollar
and ten cents busbel, or sixty-fve cents |
a busheI in geld The price Of dry goods,
groceries, and, 10 fact, Of all articles con- !
sumed by a man Of family or a man with. |
out a family, is from three to nine times as
high a. before the war, while by this cruel |
deception and unparalleled swindle of the |
people by the government the price Of
produce IS less IN reality than before the !
war. Cotton lie ninety cents yard-ten |
cents for the cotton. eighty cents for I
Lincoln and bigger. Coffee is fifty cents 9
puund-thirty eight cents for Lincoln and |
the negro, twelve cents for the c,.ffse.
Tea at two dollars q pOund-six shil-
lings for the tea, one dollar aud q quarter
| for Lincoln and abOlitionism.
Sugar is thirty cents a pound-eight
cents for the sugar twenty-five cents q
| pound for Lincoln and the supporters of
! bis lazy, thIsVing ofhce-hOIders, who 10 two
| or three years have risen from cutters
| card tables, ignorance and loaferish bsnks
! ruptcv into the FIRST CIRCLE Of aristocrscy,
where on the mnney they make in Office
| they live and hnunt their style in the face
| OF LiEcoIn's victims
A common euit Of clothes for q farmers
boy now costs sixty five dollars forty five
! dollars for the Continuance of this bigger
and cotton stealing numbering machine
| twenty dIllars for the clothes.
A common calico dress for q woman now
coets eight d"llars-seven dollars for the
war ;oue dollar for the dress.
A little spool If cotton thread now costs
twenty cen,s-it eer cents spool for the
niger and Abe LincolO !; FIVE cents a epoGl
for the cotton.
The manly boy you nursed In infancy
and loved so we'll in manhood is now a
corpse-the manly boy sacrificed. murder
ed ~ Abe Lincoln for the Digger-his
memory left 70: you to mourn over.
The bottle Of medicine your poor widow
woman now purchases for the sick child
costs one dollar and halG-ten shillings
for the cruel tyrant who has turned this
war for the constitution into o war for the
niger /; two shilings for the medicine.
The brother whom you sent to Norway
for few years since-wbom you invited
to come to America to make himself
home 10 this land Of the free. is now torn
from you by an sccursed and unneoes-
cary draft, and bis family left to die or
starve.
The rod of which you make your horse
shoe nails now coets fourteen cents spound
ten cents pourd for the tyrsnt and
four cents q pound for the nail rod.
The SON you sent to Germany Cor q few
years since, and the friend you urged 20
leave til at land Of secsrity for homo in
the west, where he could live and acquire
wealth by honest toll. is now dying is some
sinking bOspitsl-knocked srUuud bv
some petty tyrAnt of an abolition ofbcer. or
toiliug his lite out to get money enough to
get back to his old home again.
The pane of glass which keeps the wind
from your Preside now costs sixteen cents
twelve ceuts for AmerIcsn's curse. the
abolition parts and four cents for the pane
of glass.
The brother and cousin you toiled 90
hard to raise money to send to Ireland for
who lett ell be held dear there-whu
came to this country partly in hopes to
make a home and psrtly IN hopes to see
that cruel old England which 50 long has
abused the Green lille, one day published
for her tyranny and injustice, is now q
causcript, torn from his hoDe-h substi-
tute sold to the mangling machine By some
= New England Abolitionist-or dead on
some battle field while the repu blioau
=. party term all foreign soldiers or voters
Dutch or Irish cattle!
The shroud in which you wrapped che
dear little child. now happily dead aud
buried in some lonely city of graves before
he grew up aud was torn from you TO FL
the ranks, cost you four dollars three dol.
- lars tor the war; fifty cents for the
shruud.
= The husband for whom you knit tbos,
= sucks, made those shirts, is DOW dead
u lost to you in a wicked, unnecessary war
and you are left to toll and stsrve witt
= Uune but clouds nf misery and darkness
before you. The husband is az offerIug-
. not ON the alter of bic COUNTRY, bot for tht
. niger, You are left for the world e
e abuse, and 10 battle with poverty-to res
!, - the children be left you, but to have then
= torn from you as be has been.
The wife you left behind, the one VIII,
, was promised protection, support ant
;, sympathy by abolition orators who are sai
\ IN ufGces. lie N want. She 10 neglected
= aud driven to poverty
u Aud this is for Lincoln, for the niger
for the abolition of slavery and Obstruction
Of the Union.
Think OF it, We deluded followers of s5
clifton principles.
Reiute one of the above paragraphs
you can.
Lock into the past and see what promis
is for the future, ye toiling victims ct Lin
cole,
'e If you wish this war to COON;
'e II yuu Wish to be torn from your home
ID By draft after draft;
If you wish to be sacrificed on the alta
'e OF despOtism. as one million six hundre
10 Thousand Of your fellows have been;
Ut If YOU Wish to live 10 poverty, while
is wicked, cOwardly and fsuatical aristocrac
e. SHALL be rolling IE wealth and shOddy
ut 1t you wish TO labor 90 your little fars
le only to leave 1t for tie man who may mar
ry your widow;
'e If you wish next year to sell ell YOU
le cattle to raise substitute for the draft
=. 1t you wish TO be torn from you
,. homes;
rs If you wish to be forced to leave YOU
8 country or 60 into fight that you dss
D. pise;
=, If you wish to be iusulted by druuI
Al en- officials Of the widow maker and ~
rant;
"a 1t you wish to be shot down by som
shoulder-hitting, rowdyish Ioafer, who
suddenly elevated to Offee BY those VIII
" want such tor Is;
as 1t you wish to live for years withou
lie peace, with the fear Of impending evils OV
a. or your head
'e 1t you wish to be taxed till nothing
I'd left
1t you wish to take place in the srU
sr of cr'pples;