The Placer herald., 1859-07-23

reasonable man that Mr.. Broderick is no
only renegade to the Democratic party, bu
traitor to the State.
One of the cardinal principles of tn
Democratic party is, that the Representative
must obev the will Of his constituents or re
sign. Will any one pretend that Mr.. Brod
erick acknowledges this doctrine! In hi
Placerville speech he distinctly repudate
it. lie says lie did not receive the instruc
tions in time, but if he had received then
he would not have obeyed. The resolutions
instructing him to vote for the admission o
Kansas passed the Legislature on the I'll
day of March, 1858, and he presented then
to the Senate of the United States on the
14th of April following, (See Congression
al Globe of that date, page l576.) Or
that occasion he said:
81 am satisfied that these resolutions dc
not express the opinions Of the people O
California upon the question to which they
refer. am satisfied, sir, that four-fifths o.
the people of California repudiate the Le
compton fraud. l shall respect the wishes
of the people, and pay no respect to the res.
olutons passed by a Legislature not repre-
senting the opinions of the people of Cali
fornia"
Here, it will be seen, he distinctly takes
an appeal from the resolutions of the Legis.
lature directly to the people. What was
the result? At the ensuing election, not
withstanding he and his friends formed a
coalition with the Republicans, they were
overwhelmingly beaten.
What, then, was the duty of Democrats
He had refused to obey his immediate con.
stituents- the Legislature-had appealed
10 the sovereign power-the people
and the appeal was decided against him
Did he respect the wishes of the people, as
he said he would 90? Had he recognized
Democratic doctrine he would have resigned
The old Federalists and the enemies of the
democracy always advocated the opposite
doctrine--th that the representative is not
bound to obey the wishes of his constituents.
Mr.. Broderick still continues to hold on TO
the office. Is he democrat or true rep
resentative of Federalism?
During the last session of Congress he
was never admitted to the Democratic eau
cuses. He always acted with the Republicans
and was not recognized as a Democrat Un-
til the 4th of March last, he occupied seat
on the Democratic side of the Senate Cham
Der, but appearing to realize the absurdty
of his position. on that day he removed TO
the Republican side; thus virtually publish
ing to the world that he had deserted the
Democracy.
1t has been asserted here that this is a
Douglas movement. This is not true. Mr.
Douglas repudiates dsorganizers, boilers and
outside organizations. He does not counten-
ance anything of the kind Last year he
passed through one of the most fiercey con-
tested campaigns ever known in the history
of Illinois, or any other State, and during
the whole time he was heard bitterly denoun
ing Black Republicanism. He, in turn, was
as bitterly denounced by them. Do you
hear anything of this sort from Mr. Broder-
erick? Not word of it. He has no COM
plants to make-no charges to make against
Republican sectionalism; but all his com
plains-all his charges are against the Dem
ocratic party. Conscious of his own de-
merits, he endeavors to (asten himself to the
skirts of Mr.. Douglas, but Mr.. Douglas and
Mr.. Stuart attended the democratic caucuses,
and Mr.. Broderick did not. There they
parted company.
Having thus shown that Mr.. Brodericll
has deserted the Democratic party, | now
proceed to show his disloyaty to the State.
He seems to take great credit to himself on
the score of economy, for having prevented
the purchase of Lime Point for fortifcation
purposes. Let us inquire into that. The
system of fortifcations intended for the de-
fense of the harbor of San Francisco was adop
ted, believe, in 1853 or 1854, and the Uni
ted States Government Immediately commen
ced erecting forts and batteries at Fort Point
and Acatraz Island. Lime point is immed-
ately opposite Fort Point, and is indspensa-
Bile for the command Of the Golden Gate and
defense of the harbor. Without a fortifca-
tion there, ships of war can enter the har-
Dor in spite of the batteries erected at other
points, and thus, in case of a war with for
eign country, the city and harbor of San
Francisco, and the whole country around,
would be at the mercy of the enemy. Con-
gress appropriated 100000 to purchase
the site and commence the work. The pro-
prietor knowing that the Government must
have this particular piece of ground-as no
other place would answer the purpose
placed a very high price on it; but high as
it was-$2OO,O0 900 for $500 acres of land,
or the same for any smaller quantity-tbe
Government agreed to pay it, in order to 60
on with the Notifications. Had this been
done, it would have furnished employment
for hundreds of laborers, by which they
could have provided means of subsistence for
their families.
But Mr.. Broderick interposed and stopped
the proceedings, alleging that the price
agreed upon was too high. The motive that
prompted him to this course can only be
GUESSED at for after having manared TO oct