Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-15

snd the Tribune Of Tho people fell beneath Their
daggors it was powq that prompted the crime |
and demanded the srrihce Who can DOUBT |
ityot Senator had surrendered his free thought |
and bent IN submissn to the rule of the Az |
ministration--W no on doubt that instead of
resting on a bloodybier, ho would have ilia
day been reposing ia theSnglouous ielteiude
of Presidential suuehnol
Fellow citizens, letno man suppose thai the
death OF the eminent citizen OF whom peak
was caused by any ether reason than ttat TO
which his own wor4 assign H. Il has been
long lOrcshado Scd-it was predicted W his
friends it was threaencd by his enemcs-lt
WIS the consequencsof intense political iotred.
His death was a pol tical necessity, poorly
yeiled beneath the gpise OF private qumel-
Here, IN his own State, among those WHO Wit
messed the lato canvass, who knew TIC con
tending leaders, among those who knew the
antagonists on the bloody ground-here the
public conviction is so thoroughly stted Nhat
nothing need be said Tested bv he cores
pondence itself, there was no cause IN inora's'
M honor, IN taste by any code, b. the custom
OF any civilized land, there was 10 cause ior
blood. Let me repeat the story, Is as brIei as
It is fatal A Judge of the Suprme Court de-
scends into political conveuton-it IS just
however, 70 cay that the occasion was to return
thanks to his fronts for an uuuccesslul sup
port-in speech, bitter and pTsonal, he stlg-
madzed Senator Broderick anJall his friends IN
words of contemptuCus insalt when Mr..
Brodsrek saw that speech hJ retorted, saying
IN substance, that he had heretofore spoken OF
Judge Terry as an honest mn, but that he now
took 1t back. When inquired of, he admitted
that he had SO said and connected his words
with judge Terry's speech as prompting them
30 lar as J'dge Terry personally was concern
ca, TINS was the cause OF the mortal combat;
there was anohcr.
! In the contcs which has Just terminated in
| the State, MIR. BNderick had taken a leading
part; be had beeA engaged in controversies
very personal IN their nature, because the sub
jects OF public discussion had involved the
character and conducs Of many public and dis
tinguished men. BuN Judge Terry was not
one of these. He wss no contestant; his con.
duct was not in issue; be had been mentioned
but once incidentaly-in igply to bis own at.
tack, and, except as it nigh be found in his
peculiar traits OF peculiar iitn,es, there was no
reason to suppose that he couldask any mans
blood. When William Of Massal, the deliverer
of Holland, died in the preseipe of his wife
and children, the hand that stnck the blow
was not uerved by private vengeance. When
the fourth Henry passed unharhed amid the
dangers of the field of Ivry, to ierish in the
streets of bis capital by tue handof fanatic
he did not seekt ayenge a private grief An
exaggerated sense Of personal hORr a weak
mind with eholeric passions, iniene sectional
prejudice united with great coniide1ce in the
use Of arms-these sometimes serve TO stimu
late the instruments which accomplish the
deepest and deadliest purposes.
Fellow.citizens! One year ago Performed
duty, such as l perform to-day, oyq the re-
mains Of Senator Ferguson, who died As Brod-
erick died. tangled in the inoshes Of he code
Of honor To-day there is another and more
eminent sacrifice; to-day l renew my protest.
to-day utter yours Tho code of hono is a
delnsiOn and a snare; it palters with the hope
of true courage and binds it OF the feet of
crafty and cruel skill 1t surrounds its victim
with the pomp and grace Of the procession, but
leaves him bleeding on the altar 1t substitutes
cold and delicate preparation for courageous
and manly impulse, and arms the one to disam
the other; it may prevent fraud between prac-
tised due.ists who should be forever without its
pale, but it makes the mere trick of the weap
on" superior TO the noblest cause aud the
truest courage Its pretenee of equality is a
lie-it is equal in all the form; it is unjust in
all the substance-the habiiude of arms, the
early training, the frontier Life, the border war,
the sectional custom, the life of leisure all
these are advantages which no negotiation can
hcutraize, and which no courage can over
come
But, fellow citizens, the protest is not only
spoken in your words and in mine-it is writ
teni in indellible characters; tits written in the
blood of Gilbert, in the blood of Ferguson, in
the blood of Broderick and the inscription
will not altogether fade.
With the administration of the code in this
particular case, am not here to deal. Amid
passionate grief, let us strive to be just. give
10 currency to rumors of which | personally
know nuthinsi there are other tribunals lu
which they may well be referred, and this il
not one Of them. But am here to say, that
whatever in the code of homer or out of it
demands or allows deadly combat where there
is not in all things entire and certain equality
is prostitution of the name, is an evasion o
the substance, and is shield, bIazoned will
the name of chiyalry, to cover the malignty
of murder.
Aud now, as the shadows turn towards the
East, and we prepare to bear these poor re
mains to their silent resting place, let us no
seek to Tcpress the generous pride whlcl
prompts a recital of noble deeds and manly
virtues. lie rose unaded and alone; he begar
his career without family or fortune, in tho
face Of difficulties; he inherited poverty ant
obscurity; he died a Senator in Congress
having written his nnme in the history OF the
great struggle for the rights of the people
against the despotism of organization and tht
corruption of power. lie leaves in the hearti
of his friends the tenderest and the proudes
recolectiOns. He was honest, faithful earnest
sincere, generous and brave; he felt il all tht
great crisis of his life that he was leader il
the ranks, and for the rights ofmasses Of men
and he could not ialter. Vixen he returned
from that fatal field, while the dark wing of tn,
Archangel oil death was casting its shadows
upon his brow, his greatest anxiety was as to tn,
performance of his duty. He felt that all his
strength and all his life belonged to the caus,
to which he had devoted them. "Baker" sale
he-and to me they were his last words-"Ba
ker, when l was struck tried to stand firm
but the blow blinded me, and could not. -
| trust it is no shane to manhood that tear
blinded me when he said it. OF his last hCdr
l have no heart to speak. lie was the last o
his race; there was no kindred hand to smootl
his couch OF wipe the death damps from hi
brow; but around that dying bed strong men
the friends of early manhood, the devoted ad
hercnts of later lie, bowed in irrepressbl,
grief, "and lifted up their voices and wept."
But, fellow-ctiZens, the voice of lamcntatiOi
is not uttered by private friendship alone-th
blow that struck his manly breast has tOuche,
the heart of a people, and the sad tding
spread, general gloom prevails Who nov
shall speak for Calfornia!-who be the inter
prefer Of the wants of the Pacific coastl VIII
can appeal to the communities of the Atlanti
who love free laborl Who can speak for masse
of men with passionate love for the classe
from whence ke sprungl Who can defy tn
Establishments Of power the Incidence of office
the cormptions OF administrations What hope
are buried with him in the grave!
''Ahl who that gallant spitit shall resume,
| md eul ua frN,,, g. N,fi,l
! = But the last word must be spoken, and IN