Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-10-04
''TO ALI whom it may Com
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''TO ALI Whom it may Com
cern''
His Majesty, Abraham Lincoln the let
like true king, has proclaimed that he
| viii entertain no prnpositiuhs for peace
from the people ct the South, unless they
be based upon the abandonment or addition
of slavery, and this determination be has
beer sraciously pleased to make known in
his celebrated proc 'smasion addressed 70
''all whom it may concern"
Now as we aud our readers belong tn
that class Of people whom it may concern"
it is but natural that we should have some
thing to cay about the matter, without,
however being disrespeCtful or disloyal in
our remarks; and we hereby beg pardon of
His Majesty fOr-anything We may unwit>
tingly say, that would be unbecomirs in
the most loyal of his subjects We plead
as white men in behalf of our fellow SUBJ
jects, and respectfully submit to the con-
sideration Of the royal mind, that the inter-
est and well being of those Of His Msiesty's
subjects who have white skins and are of
! Caucasian origin ought to have at least an
equal share of bis regard with the welfare
of his subjects of black skins and of Afri-
can descent.
We do not thiak that His Majesty the
King, nor any Of his white advisers, net
even L1rd Seward # thu "Bl Is, fails to
recognize the justice Of this poor claim
upon the part of His Mejpsty's white SUBJ
jecta. But since the appearance Of His
Majesty's late proclams ton to "all whom
it may concern" many begin to fear that
the King thinks more of his black people
than he does of his white subjects, aotv ith-
| standing the latter, since the commence
mens of His Majesty's most happy aud
glorious reign, have been unequall5d in
their attachment tO his sacred person and
the welfare of the house of Lincoln, having
furnished him with all the blood aud
treasure be has thought it necessary to
spend in the interests Of God and human
ity." And in truthswe think there are just
grounds for such fear, esp ecially as His
Majesty, since his proclamation, has done
nothing to remove the impression which
it first made upon the public mind.
But whether the King thinks little or
much of his white suEj ects, the proclama-
ton ''to all whom it may concern" must
be taken as an animation that His Majesty
il not yet satisfied with all they have done
for him-that the million of human lives
| offered up in bloody sacrifice upon the bat
| tle-fed-the millions of widows ard or
| phsDs who mourn and p!ne 10 desOlatiOn
in every town and hamlet Of our once hap-
py Countrywide enormous war debt which
will be crushing burden upon the sOns of
honest labor and their children forever,
are not yet sufficient to sppease His Msjes>
tvs desire Of clarifying and exaltiug HE
black subjects, in the inteles of'"Gnd and
humanity" ..-
Yes, His Majesty says as plain as &C
tons and words can signify: Il know Of
all the blood that has been spilled. l know
the shocking agony and unexsmpled woe
which has fallen upon the country dur.
Ing my reign, yet, with all that. sooner
than allow the people Of the reyolted states
to come into the Union again With their
original rights under the constitution.
will subject the country to the same ordeal
over again; let there be more bloOdshed
more widows and orphans. more spoiIation
OF property, more eoDscripton, more
drafts more taxation but will mover
make peace with the rebels or allow them
to ccme back into the Union until they
have Abandoned slavery and this notice
give to "an whom it may concern"
: Now fellow subjects Of the white race
o is not this more than We bargaiued fol
g when We elected His Majesty to the heaC
. of the government What, or who are thu
!. negroes, that we should DO compelled t,
{. sacrifice our hopes Of earthly, yea, ever
our eternal happiness, in the vain purpose
: of eleyati3g them to position which i
If was never intended by nature that they
!, should Occupy2 What harm has slavery
u ever done to the people of Illinois2 Hat
e not the war aud it's consequent tnxatior
8 and drafting injured Us thousand times
n more, both materially and morally, thar
. slavery ever did2 Yet we are told by the
n King that we can have no yeace, no resto
3. ration of the Union, until slavery is abol-
Is ished and the hegrOes raised to the same
level as white men.
We, the people, have right to expect
u better than this from His Majesty, Wit
. was elected to Office as the founder of free.
Z dom. Surely be and bis supporters die
Q not mean freedom Of negroes alone, and
= slavery for white men, But chat is to, b
done to remedy this evil - ~
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