Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-03-01

Two years ago these pests to civil rights,
public order, and pereonsf safety, became
alarmingly prevalent in The county, and
We were rapidly sinking insoa condition
Of anarchy. Soldiers deeeiyed, misled and
ineensed by The AboThon demagogucs
eommitted al manner ofiontrages against
Psrsonal4Sghts andlaw. Men were mob
bed for exercising the freedom of speech
Guaranteed TO every Amerieaa citizen BY.
the constitutions. Printing presses were
destroyed, and other outrages Of nameless
character perpetrated.
| At tIiis stage Of the proceedings, end
when Abalftiobism was exaltirg over the
success of its 6endish fruits. the State
elections came off and such voice of con-
demDatiou -wentlup from she ballot-box,
that he mobiles srdselaw breakers were
compelled Is cease their ontrases, aud or
der and Aerse4 al safety, was once more
yOuehed safe TO the pesipIs Is ass5. . .s5sT
But this condition of things lasted but a,
little yer, . year, wien the Atoliiiop d e.
spoil 4Es set. ahaut the work of getting up
mobs .agatn.5 Aad .gnowS scarcely" day
passes stat we do iiotsheat 6f'ae& 6utrag@'
es1- printing presses destroyed-editers
assaulted ~ snda.prjyate citizens outragA
cd sUG gtsas sd3 ia gais 3. ou ga
The Addition leaders have chdked down
free speech and free, thought in the army.
aBd they athink to employ the soldiers to.
crush out these cherished rights of freea
man at home. Within, the past few days
the DsmoCrstic newspaper at Laporte, In
diana, was destroyed. by a mob of soldiers
for daring Il dissent from the ultra negro
policies Of the Administrations, and the ed
itar of the Rock Island argus, an able and
patriotic Democratic paper which has done
more to encourage volunteering than all
the Addition papers 10 the. State put to-
gether, was brutality assaulted BY. an Abo-
lition mob, headed by aaNsjdr oftHe Urit-
| ei States army fs7e H.'. f'S ""7 nst
! % q ~ - ~ II b.a v-glrsas nqs' u.
The soldiers, as general thing, are in
cited to these o6trages by cowardly Adolf
tionists. who dare not Go it themselves !,
and we sugge.t that the best way to put
an efsctiys ptOp to such acts, isgto bold
these Abuiitiunuwhelpsr responsible, and, if
necessary, try the virtueof Lynch law"
on them.
Il If the soldiers we're let alone, they
would harm no one, or violate no law
Indeed, as far as our observation has ex-
tended, the soldiers have far greater res,
pect for law than the AbdlitiOnists. II let
alone, they are all right; but occasionally
a few, Of them. listen to- bad advice, and
commit outrages disgraoeful to the ceun-
try and dishonorabls' to the patriotic CALI
ing in which they have enlisted EH
But if these outrages be not stopped be-
fore, they viii soon cease after the next
general election. The mobocrafs will res
ceive such defeat then that they will
never again renew their outrages upon
Law and order. The election of Mcclellan
will put an end to m5bs in the Loyal states.
| .-.4 r-.. "a - o.
THE 22D.-An effort was made by the
AbolitiOnists of this city to make little
capital for their party by celebrating the
birth day Of the father Of his countryside
immortal George Washing ton. We learn
that the affair was intensely Ethiopian and
that the negro was the chief SUBJECT Of re.
gard. The resolutions, which go their
length for the negro, we're opposed in an
able speech by ". C 6 Iudhus, Esq. who
belongs to the conservative branch of the
Abolition party, bat they we're adopted by
strong veto. Snapp aud Breckenridge
rule the Abolition rpOst here, nor Norton,
nor Mcintosh, nor any others Of the con-
sentative faction can, gainsay it. But
was itpot ridiculous and inconsistent for
those ultra Abolitionists~ to be celebrating
the birthday of man 4ho held slaves?