Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-06-13
Mr.. BrOtierick's Letter.

ALFRED kEDDINGT0N,
j DYER.
Mr.. BrOsierick's Letter.
SAN Francisco, June 9th. 1857
GENTLEMEN = Hitherto l have retrained
from entering into a newspaper defence
against the calumnies and misrepresenta-
tons of my adversaries. have always been
willing to stand or fab according to my acts,
and by them alone | still desire to be judged.
Having heretofore avoided public controver
sizes thro Oh the press with my traducers.
| do not propose to engage in them now
but as the subject of your inquiries is of a
nature no merely personal to myself. | con
slider an answer due TO my friends and to
the confidence they have reposed in me In
addition to your request, have been imnor-
tuned by others. personally and by letters,
to correct the charge that | seek u estab-
fish an anti ADM ,istration party in this
State. They regard it as an act of justice
to themselves that should make my denial
public Having been triumphantly elected
to the Senate for six years, it cannot now be
said that am actuated by an interested or
selfish motive in allowing myself to be
drawn into the columns of newspaper.
| reply, then. emphatically, that | di not
return t. this State to make war upon the
administration of President Buchanan,
neither d intend to oppose it in Washing
ton or elsewhere, nor have | ever declared
any such intention The assertions men
toned by you as being circulated in this re-
gard are malcously false, and their au-
thors. whether high or low. know them to
be false when they utter them
Many of the men now engaged in pro-
pogating these ISLANDERS are the same who,
at the last election conspiring with Know
Mornings, Republicans, and lawe-s organ
cation then existing in San Francisco, de-
ferred twenty Democratic candidates for
the Legislature in counties where my openly
avowed friends had been regularly nomina
ted, and elected Republicans and Know
Nothings in their stead. | enumerate them
San Francisco, | | members; Santa Clara,
.; Sacramento. 81 Yuba 3; Sierra l. Total,
20 This gave the Republicans their entire
strength in the Legislature The Dem
ocratic majo,ities tor President in the
Counties mentioned, at :be same election,
prove that my friends were defeated by
treachery.
Your letter refers to runner which you
say is still in circulation, relative to the late
election for United States Senators, and
WHICH Iou iuu, 10 Scueiaiy uioO' VuitVu ny
my friends So tar as my own election j.
concerned, declare it to have been effected
by the free choice of my friends in the Leg
isature, without bargain, contract, alliance
combination. or understanding with any one.
was chosen over a combined opposition, of
which Mr. Gwin was the head and front
After my election he ught my aid to secure
his own He stated that he was about TO
1 he Of ba Of
who had been placed in power through his
aid and exertions, and that without my as
sistance he would be sacrificed Regarding
him as the acknowledged lender of the other
wing of toe party, | believed his election
would heal disseusions and efie;t re- union
He had been my foe but for the sake of the
party was willing to forego my personal
resentments With this object In view,
gave him my support, and lie was elected,
But between Mr. Gwin and myself there was
no condition whatsoever in regard to the
distribution of patronage. learned subse-
ouently however that he had agreed with
Others to take no part in the recommended
ton of single Federal office, and the ca, d
he published to the people OF the State after
his election, led me to suppose that his rec
solve was uualterabe in this regard. re-
ier ~ 'ne e.ooi"S 'e'n"i NO VI M - WIN "
dress, when are as ioiiows:
Iron a'lo1 s,, ."en M ana ' ou se ana
NH lon f,,m meet rth' hail be 10 deserve we'll
of the State and to- istiiy the choice of the Legisa
ture in honorlng NE a second ane as 'ne ieprssent
a.i'e .. Tvs :, ~, ,hn. 20 w,o,n bad 10
psrd.d as friends. refer to the tme,y assstance
accorded To me by Mr. Broieri and nis frie ds.-
AIN ,uih "a, ono ime 'Va,, nna ,ei" ~ N
INN . u'e snu,ey,. in his public manne h,s ,,r
setfuIness OF all uronnd- of dis-ension and hostility
what he conceived To be sep niece sary 10 nilay
me strife ana .he uasoo'T. MN na ,o The a,sa't
"e ' h;s friends to him, concriye IN great d.,
gree my ere uon is due and fec bound To hun and
tnem mmon Ell ITS To unite ana heal' whe,e he
result heretofore mas Dee" 70 ''eaA uo"" anu ue'
w" IF ,bese facts 7 am 10th to believe
RIO, vonr ;nf.rma,;on ia correct in respect
>, ~; o,.,,,,,,,o ,b,t no contro led the recent
Ea' aa1 .I.n,',,5',ments in this state mr. ina,
:, 49, ,..oa Of H. nuh,;.hed decIararions he
mr. his trends wouid boast that he had viola
TOD his nuhl,c nledges Surely the combaua.
,;nn ~ wash,noton of the late and present
members of the loser House of Congress
from this State. of the Senator whose term