Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-03-15
Whatthe AbOIItIOnIsts thought
-s-- jEus Years Ago. asaH .-sAa-

agr- I-w. ACaAE8 ABW'4ssrt 7. --els
The life and correspondence Ufthe Rev.
Theodore Parker, Of BostBn, noted Abo.
liiion leader who died in 1861, has just
been published. There are in it some rich
disclosures. Thus TbsOd5se wrote eight
years ago: ..-.. cal .-..... .--s 3. .t.-o. |
The political condition of the country
is bad, BAD, BAD. Butt looks hopeful
for the future. i think this is the last
Presidential election under the constitution.
Yet do nOtdesire the dissolution until We
have freed four millions, though l should
prefer dissolution to the present State of
thJDgs. &c L4ar &C.. ssi5nsr- b .ts5...- .
But ! do not believe that any perma-
nent Union possible between the North
and the South. Insideas, aims and habits
of life there is moro unity between the
Neapolitans and the Swiss about the Yer
toaldslaiZer See than between the North
and the South. -.... -.
Now, despotic government, ike Aus
tfia. can lutte nations as unlike as the
Hungsrians and Yenitians into one auto
cracy, for military violence is the stiff iron
hoop which holds these slaves together
But in Republic Union must be moral
OF principles, or economical of interests at
sny rate internal and automatic. None of
these conditions seems likely to exist long.
Besides Just now, there is fierce hostility
between the South and the NOrth-the
South hate theNorth verse than Lombards
hate dOmRaR LedeSchL-worse than the
French hated 2 ALCion perJfde in 1900
1875" - %. - - +.
After speaking of tie Presidsn tial cleo
ten he said: eD...a s.4.a. i .l7a5 II
s,"But if From mt is not elected, then 1
Look forward to what is worse that civil
war in the other. viz: power and conces-
sions by the North, until we are forced to
take the Initiative of revolution at the
N5rth. That Will be the worse form of the
case, for then the worse fighting viii be
among The Northern men-between the
friends Of freedom and hunkers. expect
evil war and make my calculations ac-
cordingIy.
lyon may judge of the strength of my
convictions when tell you order no more
books from Germany, but send the anti
qpparian catalogue to the. Atheneum IN.
opened" -. ...--v. $3.50
AT the same time he writes in his journal
as follows: .Lgeas---.-s "a
This day is not less critical 10 our
history for the future than the fourth Of
July 1TT6, was for the past. At sunrise
there were three alternatives. 's q"
Il. Freedom may put down slavery
peacefnlly by the due course of law.
"2. Slavery may put down freedom in
the same way.
80. The friends of freedom and its foes
may draw swords and fight"
AT sunset the people bad repudiated
the frst alternative. Now America may
choose between Nos. 2, aud 8. Of course
toe shall fight ] have expected civil war
for months; now buy no more books for
the present. Nay,I think affairs may come
to such q pass that my own property may
be corfscated-for who knows that we
shall beat at the beginning ?-and hung
as a traitor. SO invest my property ac-
cordingly. Wife's viii be SAFE. / don't
pay the mortgage till lS62."-p. 100.
dlt;s not dificult, from such letters, for
the most blind to see that the AbolitioDists
brought on this cruel war. Again Parker
writes 80 80 ,-. ~, ~. b...-,.,,' ......i
IN New Yvrk aud elsewhere, Banks
said the election Fremont would settle The
slavery question, and stop the agitation for
thirty years. al cav. -.-r-- s.....'- ..
FL opened my, eyes when ! went out
West, aud saw that the hands Of the Re-
publicans are not yet clean enough to De
rnsted with power. There has a deal of
bad stuff coma over to the Republican
uaEby. am more than ever Of the opinion
that ne must settle this question in the
old Anglo Saxon way-!with1 the sIrord,--
There are two constitutions for America
sps xEitep parchment but the other on
The head OF drum, II is 70 this we must
appeal and before long. It makes all my
peouniary arrangements With the expec-
tation ofciFil war. buy no books; have
not orders out for City dollars: and COM
monty have at leas. Eve hundred dOllars on
orders in all parts of the world. 81 $50
"a saw hummer to-day. He talked an
hour Or more quits vell" Page l9IT
.dDOss any one doubt Ehst Nj. Parker
and Mr.. Sumner talked about. re- 80
More sense has been whipped out of
sehoel boys than was ever whipped into