Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-02
The can for More Troops.

By this time the country mas Dau d"
opportunity to reflect upon the magnitude
of the late call of President Lincoln for
Eve hundred thousand more men.
The Decentralization papers tell rs that
this number of troops will finish the cam
paign, and put down the rebellion, and,
that if the people will come toward with
alacrity aud furnish the half million of
men, they will be troubled 90 more with
demands upon their patriotism.
The people have been cheered 10 by
this pteteuse time and again since the
commencement this terrible war. The
first seventy>fve thousand were going to
run the rebels into the Gulf Of Mexico in
d1utle quick time. And thus the rebellion
has been crushed by three hundred thou
sand MORE" several times. Within the
last year the people have been called up-
Oh for the vast number of thirteen hundred
thousand.
1t is not necessary to remind our readers
Of the Efforts that have been made by the
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submit 20 a draft. States aud towns and
counties have raised bounties in addition
to the national bou1ties This county
alone has raised by taxation and contribu-
tions, hundreds of thousands of d,llars for
that purpose The people without dist;nc-
ton Of party. voted taxes upon themselves.
hoping, thereby, to avoid the horrors Of
CONSUMPTION. Indeed they were officially
assured upon the appearance Of each new
call that if it should be filed, and the
number Of men repaired raised, they would
be free from future exactiOns.
But when their patience and resources
too, were well nigh exhausted, they have
been informed that after all that has been
done, five hundred thousand more" must
come forth or a draft will be enforced on
the fifth of next month. Thus, after all
that has been done TO escape draft, the
Administration is determined ihat the peo-
pie shall experience its horrors and suSer-
ings and wrongs.
While We have no doubt but the con.
seriphon law is unconstitutional, and
should not be submitted to without the
most determined protestatiOns, and resist
ance, if the thing be uujustly enforced and
carried to too great an extreme, still we
woult not complain if the policy Of the
Administration had not made it necessi-
! ~. If Lincoln had not perverted the war
| for the Union to one for the abolition of
slavery. one half of the troops that have
been furnished would have been amply
sufficient to have restored the Union and
established the supremacy of the law
Hence tits drsft Of FIVE hundred thousand
men, which will take place in few days
is the fruit Of the policy pursued by our
| fanatical rulers. Let the men who may
be dragged from their homes and families
to face death in a war which they believe
to be crnel and unjust and wrong in every
respect, remember that the responsibility
rests upon Abraham Lincoln and the lead
ers of the Republican party.
Already two millions of men have been
called for, and responded to. A greater
army than was ever marsh aled under civ
ilizsd banner. has gone forth, and still
five hundred thousand more" are want
ed.
What has become Of the vast numbers Of
brave men that have gone forth at the call
Of those who fill the high Offices Of the ma.
ton? But small portion comparatively,
are still in the service. Where are the
others-those who are no longer found in
the ranks? The battle fields, the hospi>
tolls, and the million of graves that enrich
the Southern coil, echo where. Lincoln
received in 1860, in round numbers. one
million eight hundred thousand votes
He has had soldier for every vote be re-
ceived, and more tuo, and one half of them
have gone to their graves. or returned home
with disabled limbs or broken health, to
waste away the miserable remanent Of
their lives in pain and poverty. Under
this state Of facts, it will De no wonder if
there should be opposition to, and unwill-
| inguess to submit to the enormous con-
! SCI iption that is about to fall upon us
when it is all done to free the negroes and
nothing else.