Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-10-22
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The telegraphic news in our paper yester-
day, stated, that President Buchanan intend
ed instituting suit against Col. Forney, Of
the Philadelphia Press, for libel contained in
a certain editorial article which appeared in
that paper relative to Senator Broderick's
DEATH As our readers may be curious to see
the article, we COPY it below 90. -, 49,. 49,. "A
AND BucHANAH.TToo rroud to
make this deliberate personal slight the basis
of q war upon the administration, no man in
Washington was more capable or willing to
give o. DISTINGUISHED and effective support to !
the President No man more gladly respond
ed to his promise Of fair play to the people OF
Kansas, for no man bad seen the great prrincl-
pie of Popular Sovereignty more triumphant,
especially IN its results in the organization OF
the State of California. But Mr.. Buchanan,
almost in a night turned bis back upon the
right, denied his pledges to principle, written
as they are, and were, all over the campaign
of 1856, and in nearly every public document
I'D to a crrtain period in 1857; and when he
attempted to make his own metamorphosis
test upon his party, Mr.. Broderick was found
among the protestants. He raised his voice
against this guilty act and declared his reso-
luton never to yield up his own honor at the
bidding of the Executive. III
Is Then began a crusade upon this man unex-
empled, as We have said, in political annals.
The word was given to all the organs of the
Administration to show no mercy to the reso-
lutte "rebel." He was singled out for disgrace
aud decapitation. His name was held up be-
fore the people as kissing and scorn. The
kennels were raked for epithets against him.
The most offensive fabrications were publish
ed to discredit him. Every personal attribute
was denied to him. The fact that he had
begun life without the advantages of educa-
uon, was flung into his teeth, coupled with
lnconceivable insult and ignomy. Upstairs
tainted him with his slow birth and iron for
tune" He was in sort of social quaran-
tine He was pointed at by the minions Of
office as traitor, and more than once threats
of personal violence were made, the fulhlment
| of which was only prevented by the fact that
| those making them knew they had to deal
with a spirit as intrepid as the principle he
neld in his hands was irresistible. The de-
partments were shut upon him. Although a
Senator from sovereign State, having rights
which could neither be limited nor les>ened
by party lines, he was as steadily excluded
from all participation in the affairs of the Ad-
| ninistratiOn as if he had sat in the French
Assembly. Nor was his own course in this
crisis marked by violence or passion. 1t is
to his credit, that, while conscious that he
stood almost isolated in the Senate, he pre-
served a wonderful equanimity and modera-
ion of department No man would have more
heartily rejoiced if the Administration had re-
| traced its first false st p, and regretted its
continuance in the path of wrong.
David G. Broderick has yielded up his life
for sacred principle. If he had surrendered
to the Establishments of the Administration,
he might to-day be living among his numer-
| Gus friends 1t was only because he refused
to compromise the truth, and to abandon his
solemn pledges, that We are now called upon
to mourn his untimely death. Thus has
closed pure, beautiful, and stainless life
| Thus has fallen the first great martyr to the
political principles of the campaign OF 1886
We dsk the arch trait0r to those princip PIES, q
In his old age, md IN the sunset Of his life, HI
can teel;that his hands are clear Of the heart's
| blood of DAVID c. BRoDERICK?
The Pioneer and Democrat Of this NOR
ming, in its leading editorial rehearses the sen
tments, and repeats substantially, the i'm
putations of the Press, against the President
1t accuses the Administration of ''wagins
against Broderick 'merciless political, ant
personal war '' w. '.a-' III
1t remarks in regard to President Buchan
an, that when, early in 1888, he gave, alont
with the whole Democratic party, includin.
one Senator Henry NJ. Rice, ''his official sane
lion to the Lecompton infamy, the people o
the whole country, who had become his sup
porters by reason of his s,x-months' well-do
ing, turned against him with loathing ant
disgust-the North because he was traitor
and the South because he was tool"
The State organ thus goes on, in the fol
lowing style to attribute the blood of Broder
lex indirectly to the hands of the President
His death is the latest and bitterest fruit O
the Lecompton infamy-the logical result O
a series of assaults and prosecutions, takin,
their rise and venom from that controversy
and unprecedented in their malevolenc
throughout the most disgraceful periods o
partisan strife Not that the members of tn
personally involved in his assassination. Ye
Broderick was doomed man. The conspi
rators against him were the salaried stipenda
ries of the government They worked 70
pay. Doubtless they exceeded their instruc
TONS But so long as the horrid TRAGEDY
which ended in his death is remembered, s.
long will it also be remembered, that the mar
derers of Broderck were the ,tacorites of Blu
chanan
AS consequence of such language as tn
above, doubtless the Douglas organ of tn
moccasin Democracy of Minnesota, may spec
Oily look to be served also with notice of Ii
bel suit by tine President
But though it is none of our funeral, W
cannot but express the opinion that-if onl,
out of gratitude for the assistance rendered b,
Buchanan's friends and otficeholders in tn
recent canvass in Minnesota to elect tn
Douglas nominees running Oh q Dougla
squatter sovereignty platform-sratitude for tn
money advanced, the votes polled and influ
ence contributed by them--or, if gratitude i
feeling which has no place in the breasts Q
its conductors, then, at least out of decency
and respect for the President of the United
States and the Chief of the Democratic party
the Pioneer and Democrat should refraine.
from thus stigmatizing the Sage of Wheatlant
as "a traitor"-a "toor' and substantially al
a murderer John w. Ferny has persona
quarrels to revenge, and may be pardonec
some violent language; but the abuse of thu
Piopeer is simply the offspring of cold blood
ed malignancy!