Year: 1862

Why she Nomination OF Geh, shields as n
HEajOr-General was Rejecfed by the sem
ate.


The following is a fuller report of the speech


of General Patterson, at the banquet recently


given in Philadelphia to General Shields, than


we have before seen:


You have met tonight to do honor to a distin-
guished counryman-oue who has done honor
to you, done honor to tho country of his birth,
and been Of eminent service TO the country Of
his adoption. LApplause.l 1t is not the fault
of the country of his adoption that be has not
received the reward his services entitled him to.
That in his case we may say that republics are
ungratetul, viii strike you all as true. The


republic itself is not ungrateful, but some of the
scrubs that the public have put in high places


are devilish ungrsteful. Laughter.
desire it to be understood that l make no
reflection upon the Chief of the nation-none


whatever. believe the President of the United
States to be an upright, pure and honest man,
heartily desirous to discharge his whole duty to


the best of his ability, and we all know that MIR.
LineolR did not overlook Gen. Shields. | AP-
plause.] But it so happened that the small
politicians of the Senate could not see merit in


brave general, and the reason you all know.
Ii the shades of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, or
Benton, and the giants of old who made the


Senate were to again visit these halls and behold


the pigmies who supply their chairs, how they
would exclaim for the condition of their country
Applause


The present body of distinguished Senators


had not the msnliness to ssy of Gen. Shields
that he was incompetent One said, 1t will
not do to promote any more of his family"
There were only twenty three woolly heads in


the army, with the rank of general, out of two


hundred and thirty. This difference must exist
10 longer Pray, who brought on the war
The wOolly heads. Who pgolODg it by their
interference with the srmyl The woolly heads.
Who expects to be benefited by its continuance
The Woolly heads. Applause Why, we might
ask, did they Eot make more generals OF that
stripei They would if they could, but they
| hadn't them.


Now, if my friends father had gene to Africa
| or himself been born anywhere but in Ireland, he


could probably have been smuggled through the
Senate; but inasmuch as his father and mother


were white, and he was born where they raise


good soldiers, God help him. [Applause.l
Ny friend, not only in Mexico, but as Win
chester, where lie alone managed Jackson,
infused into the ranks the courge and spirit Of


his own daring and fearless nature. The mas
tery defeat Of Jackson was succeeded soon


alter by a mastery retreat uEder pet general
of our magnanimous State.


Mark what followed A statesman without @
speech, a soldier without battle, and million
aire without mary red, >" seated himself in the


Mountain Department. The Pathfinder did not


find his path SO pleasant, for he soon left in dis
gust Nevertheless that general is determined
to have his own way. Over and above his


ordinary allowance Of staff officers, he has fifty


four officers attached to him, whose salaries


reach the snug sum of $4,000, and is there
nothing wrong in that II he were Democrat
| or if he had succeeded in whipping the enemy,
what a howl there would be through the land ~