The Shasta courier., 1859-01-29
SHASTA COURIER.
senator Brodericl to Re sig-

certain resolutions of instruction to our Senor
tors, the words tour Senators are instructedp
and inserting Senator Gwin." The reason
given for this piece of legislative puppyism y
| the wonderful mover, was that inasmuch as Mr.
! Broderick had refused to obey instructions On
| the Lecompton question, it was useless to in
struct him to assist in the establishment ofa
| line of Telegraph over the Plains To show the
contemptibleness of this mans littleness itsis
only necessary for us to state: that, at the very
time he offered this amendment he was aware of
the fact that Mr.. Broderck had given notice Of
his intention to introduce into the United States
Senate bill intending to accomplish the very
identical object which these California Legsla-
tors professedly have in view
Senators generally, however, were opposed to
this cowardly mode of striking Mr.. Broderick,
and some of them, in effect told him to par
sue more manly course, and offer a resolution
| requesting Mr.. Broderick to resign that for
such resolution they would vote, but for bis
| amendment, never.
During the debate upon this wonderful a.
/ mendment Mr. Garter made the following (ook-
ing at the question from his standpoint Of view
very fair, moderate and judicous remarks-such
rs we doubt not he would have acted up to, if,
! not party but faeti0n reins had not been drawn
| quite SO tight:
Mr.. Garter said he felt called upon to give one
| or two reasons why he should vote against tle
| amen dment. He believed that the amendment
was calculated to defeat the object of the reso-
| 1utinn Ia, l.a.S hoap aJp
porter of Broderick, except considering that he
was good party man in convention, We had
] ALL as Democrats, to regret that We had placed
him in the high position he new holds. because
he had misrepresented the wishes of majonity
of the people Of the State. He had disobe}ed
instructions once, but that wag on a political
question which he claimed had not been settled
| by the people. He said he was right and HAT
l those who instructed him were wrong. Sisee
/ that time he had been convincingly sho~u Hat
| he wrong, and that he misrePresented The
people. Still he was Senator from this St4te.
He stood in the same position as other Senator'S.
Now if he had not misrepTesented the peopk it
might not be necessary to instruct him. He
| stood doubtful, at all events. Now 1t was our
| duty to further instruct him, and if he voted
| contrary to instructions in matter not poltica
but financial, affecting the interests OF the Stte
of California, it would then perhaps be we'll
enough to ask kim, by resolution, to resgpAis
seat, that another might be placed in his scat
/ who would represent the wishes of the people
of the State of California. Before that time it
would perhaps be wrong and. in addition, as
4 many members of Csngress did not understand
the exact position of affairs in this State, an
| amendment of this nature to the resolution be-
| fore the Senate would be more likely to create
| a sympathy for rather than prejudice against
| Broderick, except we could explain to them the
real state of affairs. We claim that Broderick
has abandoned the platform of his party, by dis
0beyiLg instructions; if he now, in a matter
purely financial, choose asaia to disobey in
structons, upon him be the responsibility. And
thus he beaseved that any Representative who
wilfuly voted against what hs knew to be for
the interest of the people whom he represented,
would feel more remorse from his own con-
science than by the passage of any resolution of
this kind If he continued to mis- repreSent the
wishes of the people, it would be better to offer
resolution directly asking him to resign his
seat rather than send to Congress resolution
amended in the manner proposed by the Senator
from Stanislaus.
Here it will be seen that on January 18th Mr..
Garter held that it was the duty of the Senate to
further instruct him, Broderck, "and if he
voted contrary to instructions tn matter not
political but financial, affecting the Interests of
the State of California, it would then perhaps be
well enough to ask him, by resolution, to resign
his seat, &c. X Before that time it,eould
perhaps be ~rong." On the 10th, the day follow
ing we regret, for the sake of our Senator's con
sistency, to state, he recorded his vote in favor
of a resolution which on The very day previous,
in the speech above, he said would perhaps be
wrong" The very last sentence of Mr. G.'s
speech shows that on the 18th he did not think |
Mr. B., for what he had done, should be request
ed to resign. His language is, " If he continues
to msrepresent the wishes of the people," &c.
While, therefore, we regret that our Senator
did not exhibit Ette more independence off
party, and act precisely as his own honest judg- !
ment dictated, we at the same time cast no sort
of reflections upon him for his vote upon this or
any other question. Few Legislators are capable |
of opposing the action of majority of their
party, sexaa though that action in their opinion
be wrong. Hence, knowing the force of party |
discipline we respect the action of a Legislator
under such circumstances-event though such |
action be inconsistent with his individual views.
THE PARAGUAY ExPEDITi0N.-A correspondent
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