Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-08-16
Sen esfonewnlI,, JACKSON.

We e2pg the following from the Banner
9fiSgA spirituslist paper published in
Boston. TIE remarks purport to c,me from
the'sgifls' Of the rebel General .Stunewall'
Jaeksoh. md contains his views en- the
'instituslpns at home. more particularly
that of African slavery He says
'Friends, in your Northern patriotism.
you have doubtless ASSOCIATED the name Of
'Stonegal' aeksoa with all that is reuul.
sise q your Northern loyalty stigmatiz-
ed hin - disioyalist, q rebel, as an enc
my 70 your National Government.
Bot ny dear friends, did you eyer pause
for d mpuent to thiok sStouewall' j acksoD
might not have been as conscientious az
yen are Did Yes ever pause to consider
thai Saithern disloyalists may DO as loyal
IN spA sFe as Jon are ia yours -
Very lev Of you d5Atlless haFe thought of
this.
! confess that during my earthly life |
did not zee these things as now see them
in spirit>iite, as | now understand it, III
had, l might have done very different. But
even as it is, l have few regrets surround
ing me.
Could my friends at the North have seen
me ere l entered as an uctive member of
the Southern Coufederacy, they would at
least have believed me TO be honest, for as
| live, ! spent whole days and nights
questioning my c0nscisuce-wbichw was nv
God-to know which was right, to know
what course to pursue.
/ felt that the time had come when all
shuld be up and doing something when we
were all called upon 10 do soclething for
our country, and each would have to do
that which seemed to be best ana truest to
them as individuals.
50 after weighing the subject carefully
and measuring 1t az we'll as | could, | at
last came to the conclusion that il was nv
duty to do all | could for my country, or
that portion of 10 which / called nv home
| must defend the institutions of home -
They were both very sacred dear to me.
African slavery was to me something
which felt was sanctifed by the Divine
felt that slavery was the very best of
blessings that could be conferred urop the
black man.
looked upon slavery in all its bearings;
critically | examined it, and could see no
way by which the black race could be sus-
tanned so well as by means Of slavery. l
loved them from my birth, many Of them
intensely. They were to me Ike children,
and felt that to send them cut UPON the
Geld world alone would be cruel; and /
saw no way, in the prescott condition orso-
clety. to cOloniZe them.
Indeed. they are not fit to be cGlonized,
and felt it in my soul that slavery was
the very best condition in which they cod
be placed.
30, fe9ling as ! did, it Of course had very
little wei hit in turning the scale felt,
lndeed, knew, that there was much Of
rotteDness at the heart Of she Government
to which you are loyal subjects | had
lived there. knew by experience that
there was mere OF darkness than light
felt that your Federal Government was
SICK at heart, and that Southern rebellion
might be perhaps the only physician that
eou!d restore 1t to health and might as
Netsaend my efforts IN that direction as TO
use them toward perpetuating a condition
which to ne was full of evil
Had seen that Government was based
np0n immutable Justice, had / seen that
Federal Government living. or exertiug it's
Influence, uoder flag that represented
Right and Justice, instead of the evil that
that Is found dwelling in very many of the
hearts OF the rulers of your nation, / might
nave Done different, l might have remain
ed true to the Government.
i now take broader views. / now gee
with clearer vision. now know no North.
DO south, no East. no, West, but wherever
l can exert my Influence upon the side of
night aud Justice, there it shall be given.
ana no one shall hereafter say that | nm
Gouno to any party, save that of Eternal
Justice.