The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-09-10
A DEM0CRATIC-WaR SPEECH.
VINO is Responsible for the Re-
beiiien---Tsle Duty of Patriots
at the Coming Election.

Judge Shannon, OF Plttsourg, during
| recent visit to Philadelphia, was serena
| naded at the Continental Hotel, and in
response to loud and repeated calls, ap,
peared and spoke as follows:
I feel grateful, citizens ofPhiladelphia
for the kindness which you have bestowed
| upon me this evening.
a western Pennsylvania, [ am not
much accustomed to the grace Of rhetoric
which clusters around your eastern people
From the western slopes of the Alleghen-
les [ hail you, and only those men who
are loyal in these times of peril to our
country. would not have the plaudits,
| for any consideration on earth, OF those
| persons who, whilst they have the word
Democracy upon their lips, assail and stab
the administration of my country.
Il have read the history OF my country
as carefully as any modern Democrat has
read it. / am acquainted with the writings
of j Jefferson and the maxims of jackson,
and, with my ears open and my eyes
awake, | shall never submit to the teach
ings and heresies of Fernando Wood, a
Vallandigham, or a William B. Reed.
person of our own State-the worst traisor
amongst them ALTO mention the name
of the pusilanimous wretch who halls
from pottsville, Schuylkill county. 1t is
perhaps distasteful TO refer to myself
personally. But in order that this COM
pany may know my political status, beg
leave to say that, from the first vote that |
ever gave until the time when our so called
Democratic brethren fired upon orr flag
at Sumpter, [ was ever Democrat o.
the straightest sect, standing up upon all
occasions for rights OF the southern peo-
pie, under the American Constitution
| was willing, with every young Wing,
and every young American, and every
Republican, to stand by the constitutional
rights Of the south, as long as the south
fought the battle Of the Union, peacefully
and legitinate!y.
But when discarding the eprecepts of our
revolutionary fathers, and disdaining the
claims of the Constitution, the Democrats
OF the South undertook not merely to
break up tho ancient Democratic party,
but to destroy the very Constitution and
the Fundamental principles of our govern
ment, it became time for every man Of
IeiI heart and upright conscience no longer
to follow the miserable teachings of the
southern oligarchy, but to assert the orig
inai principles upon which Thomas Jeffer-
son founded the Democratic party.
There is no use Disgusting the fact that
the modern so called Democracy, abjuring
the maxiu.s of the founders OF their party,
have been crawling into the shiny arms of
H. !,
Of ambition, in modern days, has been for
Democratic leaders to bow their knees to
the autocrats of the South Witness, for
instance, the case of that miserable old
man, James Buchanan, Of Wheatland, for
whom in the North there was no select
society like that which environed him
from the baronial seats of Virginia and
South Carolina. GA favorite son of Penn
sylvania" the son of poor and humble
Irish parents, fattered by the aristocracy
of the South-weak headed and lame
hearted, aping an aristocracy which with
all its faults he could never reach elected
by the honest Democracy and the Old line
Wings, he lived long enough to betray
his country, to say nothing of the destruc-
ton of venerable party to which he
never honestly belonged.
1t is said by many fippant tongue,
and many brazen pen, that the Aboli-
tionists of the North have brought this
rebellion upon the country. In the Lame
OF all that is veracious in history, | assert,
without the fear of contradiction, that
this cruel war has been brought upon us
by the Vaccinations of Democrats-so
called. What, | ask you, was the condi-
ton of the country after the November
election Of 1860 We had a Democratic
President and Democratic Cabinet
selected by Democrats. Every honest
Democrat in the land expected that the
chosen pilot and his selected crew. should
stand steadily and faithfully by the ship
of State, amidst whatever tempests might
arise or surges might beat.
He was Democrat, and his Cabinet
were selected from the chivalry of the
Southern Democracy. The storm blew,
the winds came, and untrue to his fealty
to his party aud his country, with his
miserable Cabinet, he deserted the ship,
and ran her foul upon the breakers. He
asserted that secession was wrong; but
yet he stated that if sovereign State
should choose to secede from the Union,
there was no pewer in the Exeeutlye-no