The Shasta courier., 1864-07-23
Congressman

EprroR CouRIER.-In your editorial under
the heading :. Third Congressional District,
contained in your issue of last week. your
correspondent read seEeral statements of lit
lie matters, which be thinks ought to be no.
ticed in as public manner as they we're made
in your truly loyal paper. Hence please in
sert the following:
The object of the article appears to he to
promote the interests of Mr.. Shannon as a
Congressional candidate. Your personal
preference for Mr.. Shannon is proper but
in the advocacy of him the article contained
some statements, the drift of which, if they
have any particularly, are calculated to dis
credit the Union party. and Others, which
cannot be maintained in point Of fact
While, as you say. al may consider that
Mr.. shannon has well represented the Union
sentiment Of the State, what was said of the
apathy Of the people, and management of
political tricksters in primary Conventions
is all true enough as applied to the old Dem
ocratic party, but what it has to do with the
matters presented in your article is not quite
apparent, unless you mean to insinuate that
the delegates about to DE chosen to the Con-
gressional Convention will be political trick
sters. Yet, if Mr. Shannon should become
the choice of the convention, think | am
correct in saying that MIR. shannon S friends
would take it somewhat in dudgeon if the
friends of the defeated candidates :houd
charge them with being political trcksters,
sent to the Convention by "Roughs. 7"
81 Shoulder strikers, ~" Killers" and Plug
Uglies' No. it strikes me that that course
of remark was awkward and inappropriate.
have seen nothing in the movements er do
inss OF the Union organization WHICH ought
to have suggested them.
Union men ought not to forget themselves
by remembering the sins of the dead and
putrid Democratic party, as though opr new
born Union organization was already cor
rupted, managed and controlled iy the wire
workers and trieksters of that treason mill.
The Union party has not come TO such pass
yet
In your appreciation of Mr. Shannon s
qualifications and Congressional career, you
hardly do justice TO the numerous competi-
tors for the same position. You say, We
believe him better qualified, from the expert
ence he has had, than any new man can be. y
Very well, that is your opinion. But you
continue and say, No new man could be as
efficient ander the circumstances. and be-
sides. the Union party o,ce him nomina ton
and re e-election evidence that the Third
District is not ungrateful for services ably
and Loyalty rendered" But are there not
in truth sereral other candidates before the
public, either of whom has at least as much
ability and legislative experience, and as
loval and Jealous in the cause of our common
country az Mr.. Shannon or any other man
can be- Where are Smith, Gaskill, Harrison,
Goodwin. Oliver and Parks? Several of
these gentlemen stand forth as men of dis
tingushed talents, and all of them are true,
jealous and active Union men, who have done
as much for the country's cause as Mr.. Shan
non has. / trust the Union party does not
lowe" Mr.. Shannon or any other candidate
re election, or any election at all-that
word is not found in the vocabulary Of free
| Institutions there are many candidates
who QUE the Union party much, and their
country more, and among them Is Mr.. Shan
non.
! Then let all Union men act accordingly
Let us send delegates to the Convention whose
object it shall be to nominate sound pnlon
| candidate, without reference to the person
merely, bat one who has the ability to ad7o-
cate the cause before the people, expose the
arts of the tricksters. defeat the machinaions
If the enemies of our Government, and te
fully represent die interests of our State and
Nation in Congress. This Object can be best
accomplished by the delegates in the Conven-
ton comparing notes, and Considering candi
dates, their qualifications and efficiency
more satisfactorily than by advocating beiort
hand the interests of any one candidate.
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