San Andreas independent., 1857-01-31
Wholesale VassaIage.

WnOleS3ie VaSSaIage.
The following is the Bill Of Sale, signed by
VIM. NJ. Gwin, on entering into the absolute
serUice of D. c. Broderick his future Lord and
Master it will be seen that the consideration"
is also explicitly defined, without disguise or
shame The San Francisco Herald, says, IN
speaking of the transaction, "we are now re-
duced, at last to the distressing an Illuminating
ayowal that we are without defence or apology
for this transaction. We have nought to say
except to declare most emphatically that the
Democratic masses of the State are not party
to the affair For ourselves, come what may,
we absolutely, unequivocally, with our whole
hearts, with all our soul and mind and energy
deprecate, disavow and denounce it. We wish
to be understood as scorning and reprobating
it now and forever more"
The Vide West says the letter is both humili-
ating and insulting to the community humili-
ating in the exposure it makes of the manner in
which the highest positions in the country are
filled, and insulting in the low estimate it places
upon the general intelligence in supposing that
credit would be given to the statement that its
author was actuated by any other motive than
desire to retain the emoluments Of place " in
turning from patronage and the curse it entails" !"
We apprehend that the Senator's constituents
will give the same amount of credence to his
version of the causes actuating him in this
"bargain and sale" transaction, that they will
accord to the assertion which follows it-that
his '' sole labor and ambition henceforth shall
be to deserve well of the State, and to justify
the choice of the Legislature in honoring (him)
a second time as Representative of its inter
ests"
This is the first time that even the impudence
of professional politician has been sufficient
to induce him to parade the evidences of his
corrupt practices before the people in whose
interests he has been speculating for personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Whatever may have been
the means by which Senatorial aspirants have
hitherto compassed their ends, here or else
where, the individuals proiting thereby have
heretofore possessed sufficient of sense Of pub
lie decency to induce them to endeavor to con-
ceal them. And it is probable that his humli-
alton, his admission of having resorted to i'm
proper means in attaining his ambition, was
portion of the price paid by Gwin to Broderick
for the favor of accompanying the latter to
Washington, as well as an additional security
required by New York's favorite son. that
the Representative of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Companys interest should not play him
false-that by a public acknowledgment of the
bargain having been made, he should be COM
PEELED to its future fulfllment.
Had the individuals guilty of this base act
been treated as they deserved, it would not
have been by illuminations and bonfres, and
the firing of cannon that they would have been
received on their return hither San Francisco
from the scene of their disgraceful bargain. 1t
is gratifying to know that the demonstrations
incident to their arrival were not of popular
character, but were the outburst of that graft
itude among their sycophants which sprung
from "sense of favors yet to come" and the
honors were in one instance bestowed previous
to it being generally known that the recipient
had been shorn of his power to confer the bene-
fit sought by his aduators. The people of
California have had no hand directly in this
iniquity, but they INST suffer its consequences,
not only in the disgrace of sending to body
which honors in its history Webster and
Clay, such men as Broderick and Gwin, but in
the consciousness that they have not even con-
sidered it worth while to conceal the damning
evidence of their corrupt bargaining.