Butte record., 1857-01-17
DnYId C. EroderIak

gate press OF California " let up q little
when old Mother Earth shook her sides with
joyous emotion at the glad tidings Of Mr..
Broderick's triumphant election. But yet
they snap and bite, though more distantly
and with less ,enem. They have wasted
both their strength and inefficient virus on
the object of their hate, and have but little
the battle further, and like crouching ours,
snappingly submit to the power of their mas
ter spirit They coil, and hiss, and wiggle
like Wirsen's snakes, but dare not but in
treachery to assail.
With what piteous show Of concession does
the True Californian grudgingly admit the
Mr. Brodericks friends ''are very excusable
for rejoicing How generous, how patron
izingly kind Excusabe From whom, we
wonder Have you oh True Californian.
and the Bulletin and the Alta and the Globe,
at last condescended to excuse the rejoiclDgs
of the friends OF Mr.. Broderick' Or have
you alone and without consulting your con-
fedrates, dared to countenance these little
harmless ebullitions of deluded peoples
joy We wonder if the dscomftted assail-
ants of New Orleans excused the bonfres
and joyous ringing of bells by the people of
that fair city, after Jackson's victory. And
we wonder if the Devil pardoned the re-
joiengs of the angels, after the hosts of
heaven had cleaned him out.
! After falsely stating that Mr. Broderick
came to California " with capital of little
/ talents and less requirements, this 7ruc(?)
! Cal fornfan, and abortive spawn of Vigi-
lancism. fawningly admits that '' of Mr..
Broderick personally, we know little derog
atory;" and after long disgusting cata-
logue of stereotyped lies regarding various
Senatorial aspirants, one of the Bulletins
satellites volunteers the trusm that Z" Brod-
erick has never been known to be a gambler.
drunkard or debauchee,' and that Z" his re-
cord in these respects is as clean as a sheet
of white paper" yet g Brutus says he was
ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. -
And in this last lies all Mr. Broderck's sin
He is ambitious to occupy such position as
his qualities of mind and heart entitle him
to, and ambitious to hold large, warm
place in the hearts of his countryman, and
he does occupy it.
Let US turn contemptuously from Mr.
Brodericks calumniators to the just need
of praise =" bestowed unon him by one of his
fair, upright, impartial political opponents
Frank Soule, the gittel editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, who though having
served as Wing Senator in the State Legis-
laturc while Mr.. Brodericls occupied a seat
in that body as 4 Democrat, has the candor
to speak thus in truthful vindica.ion of our
newly elected U. s. Senator Says that gen.
tleman through the columns of the Chron-
icle;
Who is David C. Broierick He is Sen
ator in the next three Congresses of the
United States. He was once poor IN
friepied boy, born in the District of Colum-
ba, but for the most of his life citizen of
the city Of New York. He had no oarly ed
vantages. He was poor. Fortune seemed
his enemy. He was apPrenticed to the most
laborious of trades, and served out his term
of toll to the last honr. But though of y
rough nature, herculean in strength, brave
to recklessness, and in n position least likely
of almost all, to allow, much less to foster
ambitious views, evun in his humble position
he had aspirations above the life of physical
drudgery to which fate seemed to have
chained him, and in the lonely, melancholy
boys humble room were found the books
which he studied after his day-toil was over
His youth had no other education IL might
be almost said that he had no other friends,
for one by one his relatives dropped into the
grave until he stood alone, the last of his
family. no kindred blood within many de-
grees flowing in the veins of mortality y-his
last relative we believe, a brother having
been killed in New York. by an accident.
Mr.. Broderick is therefore emphatically
a self made man. He has been his own
teacher; he has studied men and books, and
this, as far as possible, made up for the de-
privatons of early life, the deficiencies of
early education.
He has pitched battle with fate itself and
conquered her by his intiexibiIity of pur-
pose, his energy, and the direction of great
natural capacities of command, and sagaci-
ty in the choice of men and measures to a
particular purpose and for particular
object"
Mr. Broderick's position Is too high to be
in need of defense from US, and if he did
need defense we could choose none more
complete than this the opinion of an ardent
political opponent