The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-03
lfrodcriek In the senate.

| David G. Broderick, the young Senator
from California, has, in a single year, made
| national reputation of which many states
men might be proud. His course has excl
/ ted much interest. The stranger visiting the
Senate gallery soon inquiries for his seat
/ Figure to yourself man Of about thirty
1 eight years of age, five feet ten inches in
height, a strongly-knit frame, well proper
toned and deliberate in all his movements.
You will be At once impressed with his coun-
tenance. Resolution and courage are mark
ed on every lineament. The history Of Mr..
Broderick is best told in the following stri-
king extract from bis late speech on the Le-
| compton Constitution. II reveals his own
struggles with adversely, and the secret of
his elevation 10 the position he occupies. He
replies to while he rebukes Senator Ham.
moni, of South Carolina:
81, sir, am glad the Senator has spoken
| thus. II may have the effect Of arousing in
the workingmea that spirit which has been
/ lying dormant for centuries. 1t may also
have the effect Of arousing the two hundred
thousand men, with pure white skins, in
South Carolina, who are now degraded and
despised by thirty thousand aristocratic slave
holders. Il may teach them 10 demand wha,
IL the power
" Link'a with success, assumed and kept with skin
. That monlds sno'her's weakness TO it's will,
, Wislds with their hands, but still TO thsm un
known.
Makes even their mighticst deeds appear his own
suppose, sir, the Senator from Soutl
| ~ ;ufap 10 ha mol, -,
remarks to any Of his peers upon this floor
III had thought so would have notice.
0 them ut the time. am, sir, with one excep
r ton, the youngest in years Of tho Senator
d upan this iloor.4 Ii is not long since | serve
an apprenticeship Of five years at one Of tn
most laborious mechanical trades pursued b
y mana trade that from its nature devote
!. ia followers TO thought, but debars him iron
10 conversation. would not have alluded +
:, this il it were not for the remarks OF tn
Senator from South Carolina and the thou
y sand who know | am the son Of aDartisan
he and have been mechanic, would feel disRp
l. pontai in me il did not reply to him.
4, am not proud Of This, am sorry it is true
would that could have enjoy cd the pleas
s urcs Of life in nv boyhoad's days--but the
n were denied me. say this with pain. hay
h not the admiration for the men OF the elias
from whence sprung that might be expect
!, ed; they submit too tamely to oppression
= and are Toe prone to neglect their rights am
y duties re- citizens. But, sir, the class Of so
pit eiety to whose toll | was born, under on
70 form az government, will control the dcsti
MES Of this nation. II were inclined {
ferget my connection with them, or to den
r that ! sprung from them, this chamber woal
of ~, be the place in which nd do either
at While hold 0 seat here, have bas to loo
:. At The beautiful capitals adjoining the pila,
: tiers that support this roof, to be reminie
" Of my fathers talent, and to see his hand
IN work.
81 left the scenes Of my youth and mar
aoed FOR the far vest because WINS tire
- W .Ae struggles ana leaiousies VI men 0
ny my eless, who could not understand why on
IN OF their fellows should seek to elevate hi
condition above the common level. mad
! my new abode among strangers, where labo
. 10 honornd. ! had left without regret -
t. remained no tie Of blood to binds@s 10 90
n being in existence. IN fell io<ke ssuexi
q for reputation and fortune, Mere was no Re
= lave on earth to aoarn ny fall. The PEG
- plsQf California eevatea me to tie highes
1o6s visAla }heir ~. Ny elect was no