The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-10-21
The Funeral Grafton on BrOdcrick.

The Funeral Grafton on BrOdcrtck.
The funeral grafton on the death of Sen
ator FREDERICK, was delivered by Col. E. D.
BAKER, formerly OF Galena, IL. 1t is most
eloquent and thrilling production. We ex-
tract from it the portions which relate to
BRoDEs1CK's life, character, and death. AT
ter sketchiny the incidents connected with
his funeral Col. BAKER said
In such presence, fellow citizens, let us
llnger Tor movement at the portals of the
tomb, whose shadowy arches vibrate to the
public heart, to speak few words of the
man, of his life, and of his death.
Mr.. Broderick was born in the District
OF Columbia in 1919; he was of Irish de-
scent and of obscure and respectable parent
age he had little of early advantages, and
never summond to his aid 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, ear
ly stimulated him to the efforts which main.
tanned his surviving mother and brother,
and served also to fix, and form his charac-
ter even in his boyhood. His love for his
mother was his first and most distinctive
traits of character. and when his brother
died an early and sudden death, the shock
gave a serious and reflective cast to his
habits and his thoughts, which marked them
to the last hour of his life. He was always
filed with pride, and energy and ambition
his pride was in the manliness and force of
oh lol
His energy was 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 Cali.
fornia, his life had been passed amid in.
cidents and events 70 such a character.
Fearless, selfreliant, open to his enmities,
warm in his friendships, welded to his
opinions and marching directly to his pur.
pose, through and over all opposition, his
career was chequered with success and de-
feat. But even in defeat his energies were
strengthened and his character developed.
When he reached these shores his keen OBJ
servation taught him at once that he trod a
broad field, and that higher career was
before him. He had no false pride-sprung
from people and of race whose vocation
was labor, he toiled with his own hands, and
sprang at bound from the workshop to
the legislative hall. From that hour there
cOngregated around him and against him the
elements of success and defeat. Strong
friendships, bitter enmities high praise,
malignant calumnies--but be trod with a
free and proud step that onward path
which has led him to glory and the grave
AS a man to be judged in his private re-
lations, who was his superior? 1t was his
boast, and amid the general license of a
new country, it was proud one, that his
most scrutinizing enemy could fix no single
act of immortality upon him. Temperate,
decorous, self-restrained, he had passed
through all the excitements of California
unstained. No man could charge him
with broken faith or violated trust. Of
habits simple and inexpensive, he had no
lust Of gain. He overreached no mans
weakness in bargain, and withheld no
man his just dues. Never in the history of
the State has there been citizen who has
borne public relations more stainless in all
respects than he.
THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.
But it is not by this standard that be has
to be ju' ged. He was public man, and
his memory demands public judgment.
What was his public crime? The answer
is in his own words: "They haze killed
me because l aUas opposed to the extension of
slavery aud corrupt administration )"
Fellow-citlzens, these are remarkable words,
uttered at very remarkable moment they
involve the history Of his Senatorial career,
and of its sad and bloody termination.
Who can doubt, if your Senator had sur
rendered bis free thought, and bent in sub
mission to the rule of the Administration
who can doubt that, instead of resting on
bloody bier, he would have this day been
reposing in the inglorious felicitude of Pres
idential sunshine.
Fellow citizens, let no man suppose that
the death of the eminent citizen of whom 1
speak was caused by any other reason than
that to which his own words assign it. 1t
has been long foreshadowed-it was pre-
dicted by his friends-it was threatened by
his enemies-it was the consequence of
intense political hatred.
His death was political necessity, poorly
yelled beneath the guise of a private quarrel.
Here, in his own State, among those who
witnessed the late canvass, who knew the
contending leaders, among those who know
the antagonists on the bloody ground
here the public conviction is so thoroughly
settled that nothing need be said. Tested
by the correspondence itself, there was no
l. =.
code, by the custom of any civilized land,
there was no cause for blood. Let me repeat
the story-it is as brief as it is fatal:
A Judge of the Supreme Court descends
into political conventional is just, how
ever to say that the occasion was to return
thanks to his friends for an unsuccessful