The Shasta courier., 1859-09-24
Obsequies of ID. C. Brodertc k.

On Sabbath last, at half past one o'clock, the
body OF the great dead was removed from the
Union Hotel, where it had been laying in state,
to a rostrum upon the Plaza. At 81 o'clock
Col. Baker commenced delivering the funeral
Grafton
The procession was the largest ever seen in
San Francisco-beiDg 55 minutes in passing
given point-containing at least 5000 persons.
We make the following extracts from Col
Bakers mastery grafton, reported for the Sac
ramento Union:
CITIZENS OF CALIFORNIA A Senator lies dead
in our midst. He is wrapped in bloody shrcud,
and we to whom his tolls and cares were given
are about to bear him to the place appointed for
all the living. 1t is not fit that such man
should pass to the tomb unheralded it is not fit
that such life should steal unnotced to its
close it is not fit that such death should call
forth no rebuke or be surrounded by no public
lamentation. 1t is this conviction which impels
the gathering of this assemblage We are here
of every station and pursuit, of every creed and
character, each in his capacity of citizen to
swell the mournful tribute which the majesty oil
| the people offer to the unreplying dead He
lies to day surrounded by little of funeral pomp
no banners droop above the bier; no melancho-
| ly music flows upon the reluctant air; the hopes
OF high hearted friends droop like fading flow
ers upon his breast, and the struggling sigh
compels the tear in eyes that seldom weep
Around him are those who have known him best
| and loved him longest-who have shared the
triumph and endured the defeat. Near him are
the greatest and noblest of the State, possessed
of grief at once earnest and sincere; while be-
yond the masses of the people that he loved and
/ ,hO,,,
der cloud of swelling and indignant grief. In
such presence, fellow citizens, let us inger for
a moment at the portals of the tomb, whose sha-
dowy arches vibrate to the public heart, to speak
few brief words OF the man, of his life and OF
his death.
Mr.. Broderick born in the District of Co.
lumbia in 1919. He was of Irish descent and OF
obscure and respectable parentage. He had
| little OF early advantages, and never summoned
10 his aid a complete and finished education
| His boyhood, as indeed his early manhood, was
passed in the city of New York. and the loss OF
his father early stimulated him to the efforts
which maintained his surviving mother and
brother, and served also to fix and form his char
acter. Even in his boyhood his love for his mo-
ther was his first and most distinctive trait OF
| character, and when his mother died an early
and sudden death, the shock gave serious and
which marked them to the last hour of his life
He was always filled with PRIDE energy aud
ambition; his pride was in the maniness and
| force of his character, and no man had more
| reason. His eEergy manifest in the most
resolute struggles with poverty and obscurity,
and his ambition impelled him to seek foremost
| place in the great race for honorable power Up
to the time of his arrival in California his life
had been passed amid events incident TO such a
character. Fearless self-reliant, open in his
enmities, warm in his friendships, welded to his
| opinions, and marching directly to his purpose
| through and over all opposition, his career was
| checkered with success and defeat. But even in
defeat his energies strengthened and his
character developed. When he reached these
shores his keen observation taught him at ouce
that he trod broad field, and that a higher ca :
reer before him. He had no false pride
| Springing from race whose vocation was la
Dor, he toiled with his own hands, and sprang at
a bound from the workshop to the legislative
hail. From that hour there congregated around
him, and against him, the elements oil success
and defeat-strong friendships, bitter enmites,
high praise, malignant calumnies. But he trod
with free and proud step that onward path
| which has led him to glory and the grave.
1t would be idle for me at this hour and in
this place to speak of all that history with un-
hereafter to deny his claim to noble virtues and
high purposes.
Fellow citizens: The man that lies before you
was your Senator. From the moment OF his
election his character has been malgned; his
motives attacked; his courage impeached his
patriotism assailed. 1t has been system tend
ing 10 one end, and the end is here. What was
his crime? Review his history consider his
public acts weigh his private character, and
before the grave incloses him forever, judge be-
tween him and his enemies. AS man to be
judged in his private relations, who was his su-
perior 1t was his boast, and amid the licenci-
business of new country it was proud one
that his most scrutnizng enemy could fix
no single act of immortality upon him Tenn
perate decorous, self-restrained, be passed
through all the excitements of California un-
stained. No man could charge him with broken
faith, of violated trust. OF habits simple and
unexpensive, be had no lust of gain. He over