The Shasta courier., 1866-09-22

A GEORGIA PAPER ON THE PHILADELPHI.
CoNvENTIoN.-The Augusta (Ga) Constitu
tionalist, has opposed the Philadelphia
movement from the first 1t seems no bet
ter pleased with the Convention now, and
discourses concerning some of its doings in
the following lively style:
"Thar was"-says the great Artemus in
his account of that episode of his wooing-
g thar was affectin' ties that made me hank.
er arter Betsy. Her fathers farm lined
ourn their cows and ours squenched their
thirst at the same spring our old mares
both had stars in their forreds. The meas
els broke out in both families at-nearly the
same period. Our parents Betsy's and
mine) slept every Sunday in the same meet
ing house, and the nabers used to observe
how thick the Wards & Peasles air = -
Now, ta borrow again from great Arte
mus, one scarcely knows where to look for
th!Gg more aproyrosser'' to the times
than this: IL lnvoluntarly recurs to mind
at the thought of all that huge fanfaronade
wherewith the Philadelphia Convention
was gotten under way-the footing of horns
and playing of Dixie" the rising of dele
gates and cheers for g Hail Columbia" the
clap trap of the Chairman, and the entrance
of South Carolina and Massachusetts, cheek
by iowl. This latter little theatrical touch
in especial is fearfully after the fashion of
A. Ward, Snowman, and his Besty Jane.
His Excellency Gov. Orr, diffusing, let
US imagine, Cancellation at every pore, ap-
pears on the floor arm in-arm with Couch. of
the Federal army. What self abnegatory
spectacle was here What lying down of
the lion and lamb togetherl And what
wonder the subiimest emotions were so ap-
pealed to that the delegates melted into
tears" Think of it, kind Heaven, Just
think of it, that here were eight thousand
patriots assembled who wept as with one
single eye. Debarred of entrance by a
chivalrous devotion to the South that never
wavered, even Clement L. Vallandigham
and Fernando Wood, let us imagine, stood
afar off and wiped away pensive tear
But human nature is not calculated to stand
these terrific excitations of joy strong feel
ing is apt to become painful and how well
timed 1t was there came upon the air strains
of dulcet music from band of fifty pieces
Blow on, oh great trombone-come in with
thy mellow warble, heicleide-thump for
thy life, thou drummer, and scrape aloud and
spare not, artist with the big bassoon.-
Tears of JOY have yielded place to shouts of
triumph-sixteen thousand eyes are dried
anu eiSul luouodHu tongues VocIefate. a
roar goes up that shakes the Wigwam, and,
hark was that an echo that meets it as it
dies away? Listen it yet trembles on the
air-what is it? Pah It's nothing only
the footballs of Vallandigham and Wood,
who, shut out from this great love feast of
them that have the wedding garment. are
going away-of Wood-Fernando Wood.
who this day can carry, if you put him on
his mettle, the great city of New York
against New England, and Clement l..
Vallandigham, who suffered all but martyr
dom for his principles, was exiled because ne
would not help throttle the South, and Is
going to his home in Dayton where the
panels of his house door show to this very
day the mark Of tyranny's musket butts ana
axes.
All gentlemen, it will take deal Of norm ra
blowing to drown the sound OF those % Iool'
| falls-the footballs of men who, wneh Doo
little and Couch had US by the throat dared
| 10 stand up. in the very face of despo.isn, m
TO nlead for mercy. for moderation and , s Tor
;nstiee-to plead and to suffer tor US ana lor
| our sakes.