The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-10-27
From the ST. Louis Democrat.
The murderer Of Broderick-.Treac
Conduct of Douglas and his Organs.

From the st. Louis Democrat
The murderer Of Observation-Disclosures
Conduct of Douglas and his Organs.
The telegram of this morning in an
nouncing the homicide of David G.
Broderick, by the ermincd rufian, Ter
ry, spread grief and gloom through
more than half the Union. The shock,
we make bold to say, was not only felt
throughout all the free States, but
wherever else sterling worth of charac-
ter and unadorned forces of intellect
are valued. All things considered,
there was not in the long catalogue Of
our selfmade mon, one who would
compare with the fallen Senator. A
mechanic by vocation; self-taught; !;
without family connection, or social in
fuence, and still young man-per-
haps not over forty-he not only ele-
waited himself to the position of an
United States Senator, but to the more
influential and less accessible one of
great party leader. The bloody and
untimely fate of such character may
well produce sensation from one end
of the country to the other; but when
it is more than surmised-nay, when it
is certain that he was the doomed vie
tim Of conspiracy; that his death
was no isolated event, but the denoue-
ment of a dark and bloody plot; that
he was slain by the chosen minister of
band of red-handed Thugs and as
sassins who lead the pro-slavery Democ-
racy of California--it may be truly re-
garded as one of the most revolving
and diabolical tragedies which the his
tory of the age will record. This man
Terry, Chief Justice though he be, or
lately WAS, had perpetrated so many
deeds of violence and blood, that it
was only by the narrowest chances he
escaped the stern justice of the San
Francisco Vigilance Committee tri-
bunal which the mal-administration of
the laws by him and such as him called
into existence for the preservation of
society.
The people Of San Francisco know
the men who were Broderick's enemies
They know Terry fnd Gwin, and their
associates. They know what these
men are capable of, because they have
attempted to do. They know that the
free soil principle in California has been
watered by the blood of martyrs, of
whom Broderick is but the latest. 1t
is but year since Ferguson, friend
of Broderick, was killed by Buchan-
an office-holder, who, of course, is a
Gwin partizan. He was killed because
he was the custodian of that Infamous
letter-the record of Gwin's shame
in which that Senator sold his friends
and adherants-every one-for his seat,
The blood of every Northern man who
has ventured to oppose the pro-slavery
leaders of California, has been spilled.
An editor of the Ata fell a victim to
their vengeance at an early day. The
founder Of the Bulletin atoned for lis
exposure of their frauds and villainies
with his life and a long list of obscur-
er names might be cited, who paid the
same penalty for a similar offense.
The conspiracy against Broderick
manifested itself at the beginning of
the canvass. An obscure lawyer, not
yet naturalized, and tool of Terry's
challenged the Senator, who refused
to acceptit. But the bloodhounds were
on his track. Gwin was resolved to
have revenge for the disclosure of his
baseness. Terry, however, was first
pat forward, because he is dead shot.
Had Broderick not fallen in that con-
test, nor in that with Gwin-whichswas
to follow-the presumption is strong
that he would have to run the gautlet
of the confederated criminals who oc-
cupy the prominent offices under the
Federal Government. Furthermore it
is, asserted that the programme of the
the Administration leaders for the dis
tribution of the spoils, embraced the
nomination of Broderick's SUCCESSOR
a nomination to the seat which was to
be vacated by his death! 1t was to be
the reward of his murderer. We can
almost fancy his bloody ghost like that
of Banquo, rising in the Senate, and
showing the murderer from his stool.
There is another aspect of this event
on which the public mind will not fail
to twell. Broderick followed Douglas
in his resistance to the hated Lecomp-
ton Constitution, thereby incurring the
enmity of the Administration. Cali
fornia, through her Legislature decided
for the Presidents policy, and instruc-
ted her Senator, who opposed that pol
icy, to resign, He returned to bis con-
stituents and unfurled the flag of pop
ular sovereignty. He planted himself
on that principle exclusively, and
Stephen Arnold Douglas had no truer,
nor more uncompromising follower.
All the animosity of his opponents was
reused into more intense and vindicitive
hatred because he SO thoroughly iden.