Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-10-18
HOSE GOOD TIMES.
The Promises the Lincoln Men Have
Made---Tbe Way They Have
Kept Them.
WILL THE PEOPLE AGAIN
BE DECIY WE'D.

When the Democratic party held COM
troll of the Government il managed 10 pre-
serve the public tranquility by strict and
impartial administrator of the laws, sc>
cording to all sectiaus their equal rights
uuder the Constitution. Under its wise
and liberal policy the government was self
sustaining; and never yet has a Democrat
10 Adm. nistration asserted any power over
the people, except that which is plainly
expressed in the Consultation, and which
wac coupled with the duty of guarding and
protecting the rights and liberties Of the
citizen. TEen arbitrary arrests without
process or warrant of lsw-imprisOnnieD
without trial and corvicsion-G Cover intent
bast lee and the hundred other impleme b ts
and appliances to which despotism resorts
were strangers to the American people
Every right which the Constitution confers
upon the citizen was sscredly cherished
and protected. There we're no Federal tax
gatherers, no shOddy contractOrs-no OPP
preston, no civil wRr-but throughout the
length aud breadth of the land the people
were peaceful. happy and prosperous
Under the benign infue0 nd guiding
band of the Democracy, the little Confed
eracy of thirteen bankrupt States grew in-
of WINCH were Tapped by two oceans, and
the pe L. which were accounted the
freest aud the bapplest on che globe Mo-
where III the history of the world is record
ed the annals Of nation whose progress
was 81 sublimeiy grand ana gioriaus-
which 10 30 shoTt n time attained the rank
and fame that our country four years ago
enjoyed among the nations Of the earth
| Is., nd ~
| flag, borne by the Democracy, bad pene
trated to every part Of the known habita-
| Bile world. The name America was the
shield which everywhere. in every cline
on every sea-anong the Republics of the
South, and the mnnarchies Of the East
protected the American citizen from i.sult
and injury. At peace with all na,iuna,
and with 40 abiding faith in the Pefpetui-
ty Of our free Institutions, every nun ss,
| down under his own vine and bis own g.
tree, and there were rome to make HIN
| afraid.
But in 1860, by the vilest frauds. the
most unblushing frauds aud most lavish
promises, the Democratic party was beaten
! BY the Aboli:ionists. Lincoln, the buffoou
and Jester, was elected, though be had a
lerge minority Of the popular vote of the
|
Uses If the Wids-Awake orators of 1860
| Who does not remembe. their shrIeks for
| freedom-fOr Ec0nomy-fOr Retrenchmsn
Land to- the Lsndless for the
1 Homeless = Let US see how we'll thOse
promises have been kept. Alb who shall
tell how many who voted for free lands
aud free homes have been killed. Look
at the homes Of Amsrical The vail Of
death comes from hundreds Of thousands Of
blighted iresides; the bones Of our noble
young men are scattered from the Ohio &c
the Rio Grande. Laok at this ex. ibitiou O!
what AbolitiOnism has done for the coun.
try in Isur short years-re1ect upon the
past history Of the Democratic psrty-anC
compare Abolition promises with the bens
fits realized from the rule of Abolitionisn
are to be found in
! Two and q half millions of men taken
from the field Of labor
to the field Of
Battle.
War!War War Blood Carnage!
Free Negroes TO COM
-.r. pete with white
labor.
ONE MILLION OF LIVES LOST
aud untold Millions of
wealth destroyed
100000 Widows, and double that
number of Orphans!
Crime Misery Suffering and Degrade
| ton
Debt, Taxation and Decentralization
The Constitution trampled
upon - the Union
IS it was smear
Martial Law throughout the whole
country declared by
PrOclsmatiOnl
The Hsbeas Corpus suspended, the
civil Law suppressed, military ar
rests and trials .Or oiViliaDs,
Freedom of Speech only
exsrcis ed at the
risk of impriB-
onment &
DEATH
New offenseR, and new laws for their
punishment, Provost Marshals
sitting 10 judgement
over the lives and
liberties Of the
| people
Drafts Drafts Draftsl Drafts
accompanied by the ss.
SsntiaI adjunct Ct
q despctism.
The Press Gang, abolition $500 q
ia day aud roast beel.
| Every kind Of meat sold 10 the mark
se.s- ct taxed under the Excise
| Law.
An enormous tax upon every MOUTH
full you eat or dEink-on sV-
eTything you wear
or consume.