San Andreas independent., 1858-05-08
Broderick's Speech,

o1oueIlck Opeecn.
10 the exclusion of valuable news mat.
ter, we devote portion of to-day's paper
to the publication of Senator Broderick'
speech. 1t is an able one, and was well
calculated to convince the Judgment with
argument and annihilate with facts, the
fallacy and error of the Administration
on this Kansas issue. The issue has been
made; and most gallantly has Mr.. Brod-
erick taken up the gauntlet in favor of
elective franchise and the rights of Amer
lean freemen to elect their own men,
adopt their own Constitutions and laws,
and manage their own business, in their
own way, in such manner, time and place,
subject only to the provisions of the Su-
Preme lawof the land, as they may deem
proper This boon has been refused them
by the Administration. Fifty thousand
oifce-holders and the entire emoluments,
patronage, perquisites and influence of
the Governments have been brought to
bear on the issue, and against the people
of Kansas; yet Congress has refused to
indorse the iniquity; and now Senator
Broderick comes forward and drives the
last nail in the sill board of the Lecomp-
ton coffin.
In California the issue has also been
made in the Legislative halls, where our
O'Brien stood bravely and alone, (of the
Calaveras delegation) on the side of right
and justice, and voted against the iniqui-
ty. 1t was made by the merchants, far
mers and mechanics of Sacramento coun-
ty, where the Administration, with it's
men, measures and influence, were beaten
at the polls, two to one, after a Trojan
contest onMonday last. 1t was made by
the mechanics in Stockton, where the
regular nominee for, City Marshal, (and
this was the only party nomination they
made,) of the Democratic party, Capt
Jordan, was defeated by an Independent
Jeffersonian Democrat, Mr.: J. b. Ken
nedy, by seuenty-si.c Uotes, after a we'll
fought contest in which all classes joined
The miners of Oroville reyerberated it in
the election of the entire Independent
ticket over the regular Democratic-Ad-
acknowledgements Anti-Douglas no
minees. The agricultural interests of
Benicia, Petaluma and Sonoma take up
the principle, and re-eeho it into the very
throats of the San Francisco Custom House,
Mint, and all the other receptacles of Fed
eral fry and party retainers.
The principle that freemen shall gov
ern themselves, is sound, right and just,
and no earthly influence can eradicate it.
Senators may rise up in their place and
call free white laborers "mud-sills of So
ciety," but they will find, IN the end,
that they have mistaken their aphorism
and reversed the allegory they wished to-
convey. 1t is not the producing classes,
but the efete, on-producing classes, who
are the mud-sillians AS well night
Senators say that the people are their ser
wants, when-in fact, they are but serving
the people. Mr. Buchanan himself is
the veriest "mud-sill," being the servant
of all other servants In monarchical
system of Government, this order of
things would be reversed. Labor may be
the "mud-sill" of that leaning tower"
slavery, but underneath is the hard stra-
tum, of courage and will, whose base is
broad and deep enough to secure the
responsibility of free laborers-it is the
power from which all political rights in
this country, emanate-the suffrage and
votes of American freemen.
In party sense we are opposed to both
Douglas and Broderick; their sincerity
we doubt; yet the principles which they
have adopted and now advocate, are eter-
nal as truth of Holy Writ The speech
is an able one. 1t comes like Jeffer-
sonian oracle from the grave of political
purity and integrity We therefore pub
lish it, and commend it to the careful pc
rusal of our numerous readers