The Placer herald., 1858-06-12
What they think Of Broderick on the
Atlantic side.

| Thst the people of California may know
that the Atlantic journals place a proper
estimate upon David c. Broderick, we give
the following from the Peoria Qll) | emo
cratic Union. Had it been written here,
where the man is SO well known, it could
not have been more to the point:
Mn. DAVID c. BRoDERlcK SENATOR OF THE
UNITED SrATEs.-D David c. Brodericl, is one
of those men whom no amount Of ADVENT
tlous circumstances can raise above their
natural level, neither can the applisncos usu-
ally brought TO bear on men occupying high
public stations, to soften and refine their
characters, avsil aught in his case He was
rough in his inception roucher in his ap-
proaches to msturity, and toughest of all in
his maturer age. He is the unshod, unshorn
creature of a single decade, not having had
time enough to educate himself or to be
educated by others, in those principles of
candor, decency and honesty, that should
underie and form the substantial basis of
every mans character, be he the humble civil
lian or the mighty man of influence in the
public councils. He is not q decent man,
because his lifelong associations have been
such as to render it both morally and ply
sicaIly impossible for him to successfully put
forward such - claim with the reasonable
hope Of justifyng himself 1t is only ten
years since he was vulgar and untractabIe
leader rowdy of a band Of political villains
and marauders in the sixth ward of New
York city, better known as the "bloody sixth
Having wandered through all the various
phases and cretan labyrinths Of despo,ism
in the bloody SIXTH" he betook himself to
the California commonwealth, sometime dur
ing the year l848, it our memory serves us,
where, after struggling with various degrees
of private and public fortune, he is returned
to the Senate of the United States, in which
body many of tho trades are uoby repre-
sented by men who in early life struggled
well, and are now enjoying the fruits of a
laudable ambition. But who ten short years
since could have been induced to believe that
seat in the high councils Of the United
States Senate would be filled 10y professions
al rowdy, still actuated by his early predeic-
tons and youthful impulses.
Yet such is most assuredy the case, and
we are compelled to say it notwithstanding
the implied reflection the assertion may con
tain upon the dignity and character of a sis
ter sovereign State. We have been induc.
ed thus to allude to this man in order tc
fully indicate our belief, by reason of his
antecedens, that his opposition to the Ad
milistraion has no foundation of manliuess
or healthy tone. 1t is but the pigmy effort
of Il constitulionaly coarse man, who 10y
accident lily essays to fill position fnI
which he is in every respect, intellectually
morally, physically, and socially by far toe
scanly in his proportions. 1t is not fitting
that the brilliant and powerful Administra
ton of James buchanan should be so far un
mindful Of the dignity that always insepara
Lly belongs to the executive character, as tc
even Weld its influence in the direction o
crushing out so weak, and yet because o
sheer ignorance, SO tacturn an opponent.