Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-05-03
HOME TRUTHS.
words of warning to be Needed

There are many good episodes in Con.
gress which do not get reported folly.
The following, in which Mr.. Cox, of Ohio.
replies to the attacks upon himself. and In
which be refers to. the OutrageH upon DEM
Gratis, is noble bursts of indignant slos
quence. 1t is also full of warning which.
ought to be needed. In concluding brisf
speech, be said So.
Now, Mr.. Chairman,I have said An fhah
l INTENDED to cay of personal Character.
have SAID 1t with good temper. haze
not lost my good bumor by the slang which
has been hurled against me since / SPOKE
before.
dislike personal controversy. and do.
not indulge in it, except when attacked -
There are more important matters for or,P.
ceoates. am more anxious to bold these
gentlemen 70 an account for their AboIi..
tionism ADD lite destructive tendencies1 II
is growing worse and worse daily. When
will it erdi
We shah hold 4Aaf side Of the HOUSE %.
an account for the SANDERS heaped upon
the Democratic party-a proud party. Of.
history and patrlotism-s party which has
for seventy years kept the country together
prosperously and peacefully. Their Sian,
ders against that party in this House and.
elsewhere are producing reign of terror.
throughout the country, and especially in
the Northwest.
Do gentlemen know the elect OF thsir
speeches against Democrats I Are they,
aware OF the fact that the partisan libeis.
here uttered are circulated so as 70 nrodnea
the same illSwill North, between mem.
beIs of the two parties, which they urodu..
ced between the two sections If IL on on
will it not have same bloody catastfo ue 4.
DE gentlemen observe the signs at ho5ef
whenever our furloughed soldiers coma
home they are filed with your ISLANDERS
against Democrats, and, under the orompt.. ,
ing OF malignant coEards. they hunt Dem
ocrats to their homes, drag them, as thew
have IN my district. through the streetS. ,
and comIel them to take an. oath whose
sanctions they never sought to dishonov.-
True and loyal men have been thus trests
ed all through the West.
Under the reign Of lawless mobs print- .
ing otnees are rihed and destroyed, our.
people shot, Our meetings broken IN, our
property burned. and every personal and
political right outraged. - f..
Thus hOundsd on by your infamOua
ISLANDERS against the Democratic party. tn
members are compelled to band toeetbsP
tor self protection, and the threatened re-.
prisal and retaliation as their own safety.
Wkatelse can they do when the Law and
its officers are Indifferent or uoverless "A
save them from insult and degreda ton ?
Before God and the country, you who have
by your lIbellious speeches, melted auch;
conduct, shall be held responsible for all
the consequences.
The reaction will come by and BY. Inv,
deed it has beguf already. In the town
OF Rock Island, the other day, where the,
editor OF the Democratic Newspaper was
assaulted by mob. an election was held,
in which Democratic gain of one hundred
and ninety votes was perceptible. A straw;
but it shows which way the tempest will
blow.
l have been promptly and perhaps prop.
perry called to order for my personality in
debate to day. Bnt Uhy has not the fuIa
been applied to others, on the other sidef
We are charged directly and indirectly. dav
by day, with dislOyaJty and treason. but No .
Chairman calls to order for that Tia
crime which includes all other crimes can
be buried upon US, and We must sit eeren.
ly rlacid to receive it l..
How unlike q scens in the French
Chamber Of Deputies but few weeks AGO.
where the opposition only humber some
twenty or thirty, but where a minority
compelled decency and decorum toward
itself from its adversaries. Mr.. Routland.
the Minister of State, in reply 20 M.
Jules Favre, had charged the latter with
'dIsloyalty," as arrogant members fire..
quently charge it here The moment the ,
word was uttered the whole opposition rose
20 their feet and protested agaInsts Il 90
unparlismentary. The minister was forced
to retraet. That small opposition felt, IS
M. Jules Favre said. We have but small
number ON this inclosure. but We have be-
hind ne all Francep
We upon this side may yet be taught to,
emulate the courageous opposition in the
French Chambers, and thus save ourselves
from indignity and our friends at homo
from insult. -
Day by day here We have insults like
those of the French Minister, with the
permission of the Speaker, and without
suggestion that u IS a violation of Parlia-.
mentary law. Weekly the follest ims
putatiOns are hesped upon the Democratic
members, charging them with disloyaly
aud treason, and We have no recourse
except to burl the ISLANDERS back from
whence they came. We had it to day from
the gentleman on the other side. need
not say that such charges applied 20 the
Democratic party aud the Representatives
are false, through and through false. The
members on the other side know it. Il 10
a violation Of fair and orderly debate 20
make such charges. but ID leprous with
mendacity from top 10 toe.
scorn 20 defend the patiotism Of our
constituencies. Their never was a trusF
body Of men in any country. They I've
as DO word OF mine can express &c, the
Government as made by our fathers; they
have never failed in genuine and generous
devotion to the whole country. and % all
its institutions, LEGAL and Federal; they
number to-day g million and half Of men.
At least that number voted the Democratic
ticket even in the late elections in ths
Northern States. when, too, we failed 10
achieve success; and failed, sir, because
of these very ISLANDERS proclaimed in this
House and elsewhere. for which repeat
you shall be held responsible.
They are people who love Law and
order but if these fail, they will protect
their persons, homes, property aud lives Al
all hazards. 1t makes my blood boil 70
read the accounts We have from the West,
such outrages as those committed at Green.
vile, Ohio, but the other day when Z
Democratic press was DESTROYED, and In
Dayton, where similar attempt was made
In Lancaster, in Northern Ohio; and othei
places, all done uader the influence AM
SANDERS uttered by men following perhaps
tue example of the precious member from
Iowa.