Juliet signal., 1862-08-05
General Shields.

The following from the speech Of Gen.
Patterson, at the recent banquet given in
Philadelphia in honor Of Gen. Shields, will
show why the nomination Of that gallant
commander was rejected by ths United
States Senate:
You have met 10 night 20 do honor to d
distinguished cOuutryman-one who has
done honor to you, done honor to the coun-
try Of his birth, ,and been of eminent service
to the country Of his adoption. Applause.
IL is not the fault OF the Country Of bis
adoption that lie las not receiyei the
reward which his services entitled him
to That 10 his case we may say that
Republics are not ungraleful, but that s,.ne
&C the scrubs that the public have put 10
high places are devilish uusrateiul.
IL desire il TO be understood that make
no reflection up u the Chief Of tho nation
uoLe whatever. | believe the President
uF the UDited States to be an upright, pure,
aud honest man, heartily desirYus TO dis
charge his whole duty to the best of his
ability, and we all know that Mr.. Lincoln
did not overlook General Shields. But it
so happened that the small politicians Of
the Senate could not see merit IN the brave
General, and the reason you ali know. II
the shades Cf Webster. Clay, Calhoun, or
or Benton, and the giants OF cd who made
the Senate, were again to visit those halls
and behold the pigamie5 who supply their
chairs, how they would exclaim for the
condition Of their country! ApI lsuse
The present body of distinguished Seu-
at RS had 1t tho manlness to cav tJ Ger,
Shields that he was ire mpetent. Oue
said, 1T will not do to promo tie any more
of his family There we're only twenty
three wOolly heads in the army with the
rank of general, out Of two hundred and
thirty. This difference must exist no longer.
Pray, who brought on the war? The
wcolly heads. Who prOlcng it BY their
interference with the army? The woully,
heads. Who expects to be benefited by its
cOntinuanct2 The woOlly heads. Ap-
plause. Why, we might ask, did they
MT make more generals Of that stripe;
They would if they could, but they hadn't
them.
Now, if my friends father had gone to
Africa Or himself been boru anywhere else
hut 10 Ireland, be could probably have
been smuggled through the Senate; but
inssnuch as his father ami mother were
white, and he was born where they raise
grod soldiers. God help him Ar plauss.
My friend, not only in Mexico, but a;
Winchester, where he alone managed
Jackson, infused into the ranks the courage
AMI daring spirit Of his own fe rless ma
ture. Tue mastery defeat of jackson was
succeeded soon after by mastery retreat
under pet general OF our magntnjmy Us
Senate.
MARK what followed A sts.esman
without a speech, n soldier without battle
and millionaire without nary red seated
himself in the Maun,aD DeparImrn'.-
The Pathfinder did not 6nd his Path go
pleasant, for he soon left in disgust New
ertheless the General is detern ined to have
his own way. Over and above his ordinary
allowance OF staff officers, he has fifty four
officers attached to him. whose salaries
reach the snug sum Of 500, coo, and is there
nothing wrong in thGtf If he we're De-
plocrat, or IT he had succeeded in whipping
tbs enemy. what howl there would be
through the land !"