Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-02-16

Ii will be recoilscted that President
Lincoln declared in message to Congress
that NO iUtimation bad been received Of
disposition on the part of the rebels to en-.
ter into negotiations for peace.
The following preamble and resolutions,
which were introduced in the rebel Con-
gress on the 9th inst, chow how much
truth there is in the statement of our
President:
"Wherers, The President Of the United
States, in late public Communication did
declare that no propositions for peace had
been made to that government by the Con
tedsrate States, when, in truth, such prop
os'tlons were prevented from being made
by the President,in that he refused to hear
or even to receive two Commissioners an.
pointed to treat expressly Of the preserves
sion of amicable relations between the two
governments ; nevertheless. that the Con-
tederate States of America may stand
justified in the sight Of the conservative
North OF all parties, and that the world
may know which of the two governments
lt ls that 1rges on the war. unparalleled
for fierceness Of conflict and intensity of
annaIa
of mankind therefore, .raI.
"ResoLced. That the Confederate States
invite the United States, through their
government at Washington, to meet them
by representatives equal to their represen.
tatlVes and Senators in their respective
Congresses at - on tho - day of next
-, to consider: LIST. Whether ibey
cannot agree upon the recognition of the
C"hiederate States of America; 81. In
tue eVert OF 200 recognition, whether lhey
cannot agree upon the formation Of a new
goverCm founded en- the EQUALITY and
sovereignty of the States; but If this can
not be done, to consider, 3d. Whether thew
ccsnnqf agree upon treaties, offensive, de-
iensiye and cCmDercial." e..ss-- .--
What must honest people think Of the
declaration Of President Lincoln after
reading the aL1ve? IL deliberately in
formed the peopl9 If the iayal States that
no propositions for restoration of peace, or
oven an in timation that the rebels we're
desiTous Of peace or suspension Of hostili-
ties bad couae to his knowledge!
The truth is, Mr.. Lincoln and his adVis-
eFs do not want the war to terminate until
slavery she'll be wiped out. Notwithstand-
ing the most eminent statesmen Of tho
South we're sent to Washinct ton, months
ago. on mission of peace, yet Mr.. Lincoln
would not receive them or listen to their
propositions, and he gravely Informs the
country that the rebels do not want peace.
lie is evidently in favor of carrying on the
was for partiz N purposes.
Or, as an intelligent writer truthfullg
observes, the President and his advisers
have lost sighs-of the country and seem to
imagine that'thsir whole duty consists in
Yankee spectators AID the negro and
though they ell not only this land but the
whole earth and heaven with signs and
tears, they will prosecute the war till eyerv
Abolition speculator is possessed of cotton
plantation, and every negro in the country
is made the political and social equal Of
his white. neighbOr.
This is the Abolition pro gramue, and It
will be filed at any cost of blood and
treasure, il, to our misfortune, the Abolition
party is permitted to retain its present
hold upOn the government.