Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-11-01
A ID ID r e s s
By THE
STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
To the People Of Illinois.
BY THE
Chicago, Oct % 1864

Chicago, Oct p 1864
MEN AND CITIZENS - Heirs of the
mightiest heritage that heaven has VCuch-
Gated aud earth has knOwn-depusIrarie
Of a trust sacred in its character aud ave-
full in It's OnsibIllries-cO-h heirs suG Co
trustees with the brave. the good and the
faithful in all this broad republic-AWAKE,
ARISE AND ACT.
Already the symbol of hope, the signal
OF DIVINE favor, the Summons to duty and
90 victory, flashes brightly in the sky
Your time is Oome,-6e up and be in ear
nest.
You are appealed to nov. not as pBrti.
zane, however cherished and Instant may
have been and is your faith IN the policies,
end your devotion to, the party. which, be-
lieving it to be honest and potent for gOO0,
you have espoused. In the hOu: Of your
cOuntry's need, party zeal psles before the
FIRE Of living patriotism. Your country
needs you NOw-peeds you as she may new
er need you again. Put resOlutely aside
prejudice and passion; rend asuDder the
| veil of deception strike down the weapon
of insolent tyranny, be they welded by
| wbOmsOe7eI they may. Assert your maj
esty as sOyereIgns. tits your country that
calls With fiial fidelity listen to thai
call-it is made so you as men as FREQ
men, as American cItiZensa Ii is made 10
you iu the name of the stirring and holy
memories Of the past-In the name If q
future eager with hope, trembling with
anxiety. Y n are sOlemnly summoned tn
take your part in the shaping Of that fu.
ture. Let It be the part If Ben-uf men
worthy of the priceless inheritance you
have enjoyed,-RU which it is your duty to
transmit To your beloved children.
In the present most mumeDtOus struggle
you, American citizens have to encounter
the formidable and unparalleled Com blna.
ton Of every art, every instrument and ev-
cry power adverse to freedom. The inso-
leDce Of ill-begUtteD power and the craft
of insatiate Rvarice are leagued against
you.
A zeal. perhaps honest, but which VIZ
know to be misdirected, leads many blind
folded and reckless to the very verge CT lht
abyss that yawDs wide for the d. structior
of their liberties and yours. Craft. tbs
most ingenious and the most unscsupuiOus
is ever vigilant and untiring. 1t lures the
best impulses into uusatursl alliance with
the basest passions of humanity it de.
ceiVes and misleads the honest and simple
minded it goads even the otherwise gifted
and upright men, in their carr Get longing
for q great good, to hazard unimaginablt
evil; ii urges to use, for the possible soea
Of an inferior people tceapORS that mus
ctedre dOoon the Liberties, interests and hope
Of all.
Tue tide OF !anaticism has reached III
heiGhth, and the receding waves are evi
dences Of raturning reason but, oh, ove
the shores 1t has washed, what picture o
5esolatiOD 10 presented, -peaGe destroyed
laws defed, rights outraged, constitution
disregsrded, trusts betrayed, ;rOsperit,
impaired, and nationality weakened. Il
the name of liberty it has stricken dow
your guarantees of freedom; 10 the man
ofjustice it has disregarded and defied th
injuuctiOus of your judiciary il the nam
OF humanity it has desoIated your homes
while pretending to maintain your govern
ment, it's policies render reunion impOssi
BILE. In its short reign Of triumph all thes
and more wrongs have been prepetratet
upon you and it now sits in fancied secu
ritv, mOcking at the desolatiUn it ha
caused. Shall the baneful cause of thi
misery be perpetuated Z Let your vote
determine this question. By the memoir,
Of the heroic dead, whose blood, treasur
and death purchased your Independence
by the memory Of the Countless heroes
cons of the Republic. sacrificed to main
tain it, and 10 the name of hopeful 70
ture We appeal TO you to GbrOw of th
; shackles Of despOtism and reassert the SOY
ereiguty Of law.
Already in four of our sister states hav
trials Of strength been made, prehmint r
TO the great contest on the eighth of No
vember next. In each of them fraud an
4 force have put forth their most desperst
Efforts to defeat the only party that is trul
devoted to the Union and the cOnstitutiu
the party outside of, and above, ell her
estes aud schisms, the party of republica
aemoethcy, TIE PARTY OF THE Pc PIE
Betrayed, misrepresented aud denounced
We have yet been eminently successful.
: For the UOion and the constitution th
trumpet of triumph has mer.ily scunde
; In the greDd old KEYSTONE SrArE-shs
Q state within whose holy borders the flag {
!. your nationality was frst unfurled-Ihs
) state which time and again has intoue
Z abe music that thrilled, and nov thrill
through loving sister states eager to marc
With her to victory. That glorious tri
umph hes been achieved over fraud en-