The Shasta courier., 1867-08-10
Grand Union Demonstration.


The Union meeting held here last Monday
evening was the largest and most enthusias-
tic asseablage witnessed in this place since
the Presidential campaign of 1864. Delega.
tons were present from nearly every precinct
ST the countv-Millville, Horsetown and
Cottonwood being the most fully represented.
The stand erected in front of the Express
| Office was decorated with flags, and number
oftransparcncies bearing appropriate mottoes
were carried by patriotic boys, who shoute
Justify for Gorham, and INDUCED in numer
Gus boysh witticisus about the demoraliza
ton of the Copperheeds. The balcony ex-
extending along the frcnt.of Weirs, Manas.
se's and Odd Fellows building, WAS crowded
! With ladies. while the street and sidewalks
were literally alive with people.
At half past eight clock the meeting was
organized by electing j. S. Follansbee, Pres
ident, j. j. Bell, II. n. Wilkinson, Otis
Seamans, T. Plumb, James Daily and II. S.
Ball, Vice Presidents, and L. Scott. Secreta-
~. After an enliyeniRg tune by the New
York Circus Band, which volunteered for the
occasion, the President came forward, and in
few appropriate remarks introduced TO the
audience Hon. John p. Jones, Union nomi.
nee for Lieutenant Governor, who delivered
an able and effective speech, in which he
completely refuted the charges of swindling
and fraud at one time attributed to George
C. Gorham and his friends by some of the
one idea Bidwell idolators, and still repeated
and reiterated by Copperheads and their
sympathizers all over the State. During the
delivery of his speech, Mr.. Jones was fre-
quently interrupted by applause, and when
he took his seat was greeted with three
cheers and rousing tiger"
Governor George L. Woods, of Oregon. was
next introduced amid uprorious cheers. The
Governor spoke for about two and half
hours, and held the audience spell-bound
from the commencement to the close of his
remarks. His speech was masterpiece of
argument and eloquenee, and his ideas and
sentiments sunk deep into the hearts and
minds of his hearers, and cannot be eradica-
ted by the miserable subterfuge and shallow
cant of the Copperhcads. The propositions
and arguments advanced by the Governor are
unanswerable, and we regard him as being
more than match for all the Democratic
stumpeFs in the State. We predict that their
only style of assault on Governor Woods will
be in the way Of misrepresentation, subter
fuge and blackguardism. They cannot answer
his arguments. During his speech the Gov
ernor was frequently greeted with prolonged
applause, and when he closed, with an elo
quent appeal in behalf Of the Union party
ard its uAdying principles, cheer after cheer
went up from the audieaee, and the earnest
enthusiasm OF the people showed their deep
sympathy for the cause in which all patriotic
men delight.
At the close of Governor Woods speech,
Judge Hale, of Placer, was introduced, and
delivered short but able and earnest ad
dress in behalf of the Union cause, and
wound up by advising Union men to vote for
the nominees on the regular Union State and
County tickets. which sentiment was received
with three hearty cheers from the audience.
1t being now one o'clock, the meeting ad.
journed, after repeated and enthusiastic
cheers for Jones, Woods, Hale, Gorham and
the Union ticket.
Taken altogether, the meeting was grand
success, and shows that the Union men of
Shasta county are still animated by the same
spirit and zeal which characterized them in
the days when armed rebels were striking
at the very heart of the Nation, ana striving.
with the madness and venom Of demons, TO
overthrow the best Government ever founded
By man.