Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-06-28
VOL. % NO. 3.
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VI Songfess from Indiana:
when the present party came into
power, the road to an houorabIs Ines.s -,
me basis OF the Union was still a, - = r.
lore the inauguration Of Mr.. L;n.aj, ~.
friends and supporters held he. ;ss,s ~
lie or death, peace or var in their LanS.
in this Capitol. +, 80 ~ =. - =
e TherecOrds Of The last session ri,h.
Thirty Sixth Congress are immortal. Tbsv
cannot perish, and as the woes and calam-
ties Of the people thicke1 and magnify Inv
the frightful war 10 which We are eneaeed.
they inersese In value TO posis.ity more
rapidly than the leaves Of the sibslins
book.
TIE baIef0l brood or political destruc-
.tiouists.. who now possess the high seats Of
latis nal authority. did not then want pub
lie tranquility. They invoked che storm
which has since rained blood upon The
land. They courted whirlwind which has
Frustrated the progress Of q century in
ruins. The danced with q hellish eIee
around the bubbling cbaldrcn of civil war.
and welcomed with ferocious joy every
hurtful mischief'which fickered in its Ia.
rid and internal flames.
Compromise, which has its origin in the
love and mercy Of God which made peace
and ratified the treaty Of Calvary between
Heaven and the revOlted and rebellious
earth which is the fundamental basis Of
ell human associations. and by which all
governments the world ever knew, have
been created and upheld; compromise.
which fools pronou nee reasonable werd.
and skiliul knaves cover with reproacb
because they are enriching Themselves at
the expense of the national sorrow and
blood was discarded by the North, and ac.
cepted by the South when offered BY Mr..
Crittendsn. By it domestic TRANQUILITY
could have been insured
But an ulterinr aud destructive shirt
prevailed. ruled the hour, and flooded the
nation with misery. And since the break.
ing up OF the fountains of the great deep.
who OF this party have lahoEed to TRANQUIL
iEe our disordered sffairs2 Who has en-
deavored in the name Of Christ AID BY the
onnipotent power of the principles which
He left his Fathers throne to proclaim
and for which he drank the wormwood and
the gall on the cross,t expel the cruel and
ierocious demon Of civil war that has
howled SO fierce for the last three years
smong tombs OF our young and heroic
dead? Not enc sir. Not one.
Wise ADD christian measures looking to
reconciliation and peace and Union have
been repeatedly spurned by the Executive
and this legislative department which be
holds 10 duress.
AT no distant day, when The borror of
this war con no longer be borne, the rari-
Gus propositions which have been made.
and rejected in behalf of enlightened re.
storation will be gathered mp aud hurled
at those 10 power as an accusation more
appalling, an indictment more damniup.
tnan was ever leveled against murderer
upon bis trial
Sir. will not pause to dwell in detail
on the .usuages of civilized nations in con.
quoting the civilized warfare. But l chal.
ienge history. that Reverend chronicler of
the grave. whether in. its sacred or profane
RECORDS TO produce parallel to the spirit
sno temper with which the party now in
power mas conducted the awful struggle
ID which we are engaged. Commences at
an early daybreak of the world. traveres
ell time, sDd explore all space, erope vonr
way among the vast hetacombs all former
wars. examine the CORY stains of every
battlefield, ransack archives of kings. cab.
inets and councils, and NJ instance M,
one can te found where a people. claimiog
christian civilization bss waped a war Of
any kind against a foe, in dumb. Eerocious
silence. without q word or a sign or a look
in behalf of q Pc ceful solution:as long as
we have now been engaged in this cruel
conflict.
Blessed are the peacemakers.' was mt
spoken for the present administrators of
American affairs. They spurn. the exam
pies and teachings Of all christian aces
and people.
They drink not from the benevolent
fouptains whose waters were upsealed 70
gladden. and refresh the earth, by the dive
Nszarene on tue Mount of Olives. Thew
have their lips rather in a stream whose
waves more putrid than the rivers of
Egypt when smitten by the rod of Moses.
faint the air with pestilence and calamity.
Nor are they wholly without models 10 the
past.
The boundaries Of civilization IL is true:
as have stated. are barren of auy prece-
dents for their conduct but the dark re.
gioEs OF barbarian furnish here and there,
a easily and horrible example of fury, hate
and revenge, whichsis now followed by
the Executive and his partisan supp 1rters
demons have occasionally 10 the mystic
rious providence Of God, visited the earth,
IN the gulse OF men, to prey upon the hu-
man species from the mere love of slaugh-
ter and misery. Alaric, the Gothic mon.
ster, never treated with bis enemies, never
negotiated for peace. The dying groan of
soldier On the field the bitter wall of the
widow and the choking sob of the orphan
at home, were equally music in his ea.s
Attliia. the fierce Hun, known to history,
as the 'ScourRe Of God,' neither sent nor
received commissioners TO discuss and ell.
lay the causes OF war. He painted upon
his banners, the sword alone, and pro.
claimed that by that sign, and il alone, he
would coLquer. GeDghis, Kahr and Tam.
erlsne preserved by the pen of the bisto-
rian for u3iversel sxecratiou, found no
pursuit 80 pleasing, as calling for more
men, more men for the harvest of death.
and like our present Executive. snuf6no
With jests and ribaldry the warm faint Of
blood on every gale.
The patriots who surrounded these bar.
barIan chiefs spurned 18th eager indiRna-
ton all profers Of mediation, all efforts at i.
compromise, all talk Of egotiatiou, lust as
do now the patriots who are seated 90 the
west side of this chamber and who
pay court for contracts at the west eod of
the avenue.
Nor did Hyder Ali. that more modern
iDcarDation Of unconditional extermiuatipp
war, regard With favor the suggestions Of
peace, when pausiDg for moment like a
cloud OF wrath on the brow of the Noun
tain, be swept down over the plains OF the
Csrnatic, and smete them with blasts of
ire, with indiscriminate woe.
Slr, these are your examples. These are
they who never said conciliate, bat aIways
crush /; who never SAID harmoni1e. bot Al
ways saic destroy; who denounced frater.
nal affection and embraced the doctrine of
subjugstion who never souebt to restare
the peaceful relations With their neiehbors
but who always sought to.ruiu them BY
conhscatiou and plu1der; wbose voice ss Of
Mol0ch in bell, and the voice of those who
now rule the nation, for war and for war