Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-04-19
The Truth atLa,i

anu L fremont is faet making this manifest.
The new organ Of the former, the New Nh.
tiOn, thus speaks. Remember this is John
John c. Fremont speaking ncw-uot a
"COpperhead." The writer in that paper
begins thus:
To call one man honest out of a popuis.
ton OF thirty millions, is not so much a
compliment to bin as a sarcasm upou all
the rest. Let Us look into his honesty and
capabIiity. After three years of patient
silence we have a right, aud il. is moreover
our cnty, Mr.. Lincoln, to examine your
acts and show them to the nation.
After reviewing the administration from
beginning to end, the writer closes 1ilh
the declaration that the result is eyer,s
where. the same. ridiculous and disas.
trous."
Hear these terrible citations-serrib,s
because too true:
And to cap the climax we are obliged 10
hear definitions like this: An uncondi.
tioDsl loyal man is one who, although no,
satisfied with the measures taken BY gov.
eminent, approves them all and gives his
constant supportll
ltseens almost Incredible. Are wa in
Constantinople, St. Petersburg, in Rome. or
IN Paris? Are we the descendants Of
those proud SaxOns who refuse to succomb
to any yoke, or the. iIlegitimats offspring
OF cardinals seeking to secure fortune and
greatness ty perpetual worship7 Are
we really the descendants of the Disciples
oil Luther aud Calvin, who, rather than
SUBJECT their reason to an authority which
they despised. preferred to exnatriats
themselves to these shores, where, tborouvh
the agency of liberty. they founded o5-
national greatness which you are aoI
striving TO drown in sea of covard;cs
and adulation, corruption and iucomne,en.
cy? Were our ancestors to visit the earth
they would certainly be surprised 10 see
that, eighty years after the revoIptios
which gave life and liberty 10 the nation.
the Lihcoln party could find no better de.
tnitIon OF loyalty than blind submission
| to the DEGREES Of the government
Bnt we have exercised this blind and
mute submission during three years; due
ing three years we have kept sileut-arli
what is mOre generous than silence
In the face of so much
lncapacity and corruption, patriotism alone
has keptus silent.
Each time that fresh defeat or a frssh
concession to foreign powers broupbt an
indignant exclamation 20 our lips. we re-
STRAINED Its utt0rance. And yet have much
greet, and love, and admiration, accompan.
led each fresh Secatomb of these unknown
heroes, these martyrs to their country
who have fallen through the incompetency
ana the cold and Unsuitable ambition of tha
men whose mission IL was to lead our soma
70 victory, but who, being blinded by DO.
htieaI considerations for their personal
advancement, led thOm only to a profitIess
death.
Aud you have not displayed more talsus
OF energy abroad. Napoleon has trampled
upon the rights of friendly republic be
has notified US Of the blockade of the Mav.
IN our. face o
We ask, then, who is master nov IN
America, he who lays down the Law ~ he
who submits TO the same? Is il Nsnolaon
III or the successor of Washington
We have been imposed upon iono enopob
The ruin which you have been unable 20
accomplish in four years, would be fuTv
consummsted were you to remain in ower
four years longer. iN"eI
-FOUR NIL taFy governars aud their pro.
Vost narshahs override the laws. and tbs
echo Of tie armed heet rings forfI as cl1ar1v
noU iH America as IN france or A,,11r,G
You have eLcrcached upon cur Gbertv
without securing victory, and we mus.
have both.
You have .dishcnered us abroad h,
shameless MISREPRESENTATION aa 10 on,
true condition. Places that were occnnied
IN 1862 are now again in the bands of the
rebels. and God knows whether your nTs.
paratlons for the approaching campaign
are adequate.
CorruptiOn has entered into every de.
parfment OF your administration rendering
1t very Augeau stable, which peeds q
Hercules as yo1r SUCCESSOR
Away with all the imprstors who bava
loVaded the temple of liberty and turned n
into vote market. Let there be an end
TO TINS ridiculous farce Of unconditional
l"yaty, which IS only ct to seeurs the
votes OF those fools who. instead of delTiu9
70 the roIt OF the matter, blindly believes
ell the interested lalsehoods published nv
the journals that are paid TO applaud and
and submit, whether right or wrong.
Dir. L'ncOln's honesty is of a stran,a
description. Itconsists in nearly running
DIS &C untry, and in degrading its iutsrestS
longer. ''o'0
To our eyes, the man who bas depriysd
bis country of the services of como M b..
best citlzens,w who has been unable to maEs
any better use of the Incredible resouroes
conhded to him, and who after aeitutinu
90 mary public questions without soIyinS
Que OF them, disregsrds his owe utter inc
capacity Is. OF all the citizens of the Uni,.d
States. the least honest ADD the most dsos'
| gerOus.
But even if President Lincoln were the
honest man that his paid organs represent
MIN to be, bow dangerous would be his
reelection to the liberties Of the people,
under existing circumstances, surrounded
as De Is oy the military influences that be
hss at his back Let US remember the
me teachings OF history and the instances
OF leigned or real imbecilty, all of which
nave resulted in despotism.