Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-08-19
OPENING OF THE GUBERNATORIAL
CAMPAIGN.
SERENEDE TO JUDGE sHANNoN-HIs AID.
DRESS ON THE OCCASION.

at the Continental Hotel in Philadelphia nv
BIgefeld's Band. a large crowd assembled
in the street. and there were large cries for a
speech. After the performance of numbsr r
Of patriotic airs Judge Shannon appeared up
on the balcony and spoke as follows
SPEECH OF JUDGE SHANNON
feel grateful, citizens of Philadelphia, for
the kindness you have bestowed upon me this
evening.
A western Pennsylvanian,I Il am not much ac-
customed to the grace Of rhetoric which clus.
tiers around yonr eastern people. From the
western slopes OF the Alleghanies hail you
and only those men who are loyal in these
times OF peril TO our country. lApplause.l
would not have the plaudits, for any consid-
Grafton on earth, OF those persons who, hile
they have the word Democracy upon their lips,
aSsail and stab the administration of my coun
try. Long Aprlause.l have read the his
tory oil my country as carefully as any mod
ern Democrat has read it. | am acquainted
with the writings Of JcifeIs son and the maxims
OF Jackson. And, with my eyes open and M
ears awake, | shall never submit to the teach
landigham or Wm. B, Reed (Deafening ap-
plausel II is almost hestowi9g honor upon
person of our own State-the worst traitor
amongst them ALTO mention the name of
the piss sllanimous wretch who halls from
Pottsvile, Schuylkill county. [Derisive
laughter and cheers. 1t is perhaps distaste-
iul TO refer to myself personally. But in or
der that This cumuany may Enov nv pnIificaI
stains, crave leave TO say that, from the first
vote that gave until the time when our So
called Democratic brethren FREQ upon our flag
at Sumter, 1 was ever a Democrat of the
straightest sect, standing up upon all occa-
sions for the rights of the Southern people,
under the American constitution. IApplause
! was willing, with every young Whig, and
every young American, ,and every Republican
To stInd by the constitutional rights of the
South, as long as the South fought the battle
of the Union inside of the Union, loud cheer
ing,l peacefully and iegitimately. But when
discardiug the precepts of our revolutionary
fathers, and disdaining the maxims of the
Constitution, the Democrats of the South un-
dertook not only to break up the ancient Dem
ocEltc party. but to destroy the very Consti- |
Tltiun and the fundamental principles of our |
Government, it became time for every man /
Of real heart and upright cunscience no long
rr 10 follow the miserable teachings of the
Southern o!igarci!y, but to assert the origin
al principles upon which Thomas Jefferson
sounded the Democratic party. [Loud ap-
piduse
There is no use in Disgusting the fact that
The modern so-caiied Democracy, adIuring
the maxims of the founders of their party
have been crawling into the Shiny arms of a
Southern oiigarchy. The primrose path of
ambition, in modern days, has been tor Dem
ocratic leaders to bow their knees to the au-
tocrats of the South lVoices-That's so y
Witness, for instance, the case of that mlser-
able old man, James Buchanan. of Wheatland
laughter for whom in the North there was
Ho secret society like that which env ironed
him from the baronial seats of Virginia and
South Carolina. GA favorite son OF Pennsvl-
Yania''-thc son of poor and humble Irish pa
rents, hattered by the aristocracy of the South
weak headed and lame hearted, aping an ar
lstocracy which with all its faults he could
never reach-[ [laughtyrl-elected by the
honest Democracy and the old line Wings, he
lived long enough TO betray his country, to
say nothing OF the destruction OF venerable
patty to which he never earnestly belonged.
II Is said by many hippant tongue, and many
hFazeG pen, that the aSolitioDists of the
North have brought this rebellion upon the
country. In the name of all that is veracious
IN history, assert without the fear of contra
"iclion, that this cruel war has been brought
upon us by the Vaccinations of Democrats
SO called. [Voices-That's SOL What, /
ASK yon, was the condition of the country af-
fer the November election of 1860 ? We had
Democratic President and a Democratic
Oaoinet selected by Democrats. Every hon.
eS' 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 {
Ut surges might beat. He was a Democrat, ;
ana MS Cabinet were selected from the chiv-
airy of the southern Democracy. The storm {
view, The winds came, and, untrue TO his feal-
y 10 hIs party and his country, with his mis-
cradle cabinet, he deserted the ship, and ran
"et 'oni upon the breakers. TGroans. He as {
serted That secession was wrong put yet he /
stated that if sovereign State shou Id choose Z
=" secede from the Union, there was no pow (
. III The Executive-no force even in Con-
e'e's-to coerce that seeding State TO return !
~ 'he Union it bad deserted. Through the c
ice OF members of his Cabinet, the ships I
- 'af then little navy were sent to remote {