Daily national Democrat., 1859-09-24
A Monument to Broderick.

1t having been announced in the San Fran
cisco papers that movement was on foot in
that city for erecting by subscription monu-
ment to the late Hon D. c. Broderck the
Sacramento Bee stated that it had been re-
quested to say that Sacramento would con-
tribute her full share to an effort of that kind
We are now authorized to say for Marysyille
that she will also lend her aid to the move.
ment There are many admirers of Mr. Brod-
erick in this city, and they are not only
willing but able to testify their regard for his
memory in the most appropriate way in
which it can now be manifested
We would suggest that n Central Commit
tee on the raising of funds be at once formed
in San Francisco Afterwards, let the friends
of Mr.. Brodelick in other cities or to WINS meet
and appoint local committees to correspond
with the said Central Committee and act in
concert with its general directions
In this manner, it would not be long before
a sum would be raised sufficient to erect a
monument worthy of the great name to be
inscribed upon it.
That this monument should be reared, no
true friend of California can doubt. Mr.
I}roderick was steadhst supporter, in the
United States Senate, of the interests Of the
State which he represented. lie never dis
graced himself by any schemes of personal
aggrandizement, by means of his position in
that body. He frowned down corruption
wherever he met it, and rebuked it to its
very face on the floor of the Senate Mean
men instinctivelv shrunk from his presence,
and scowled at him from corner While
others forsook principle, for the sake of "or-
ganization" and the like dastardly considera-
tions, he stood true to it in calm or storm, in
prosperity or adversely Never did he lose
sight cfthe rights and interests of the great
masses of the people, as contradistinguished
! from the classes who would fatten upon their
labor. Always did he remember the hard
working and industrious ranks from which,
uuaided and alone he sprung. The ingrati-
tude of these classes in refusing to sustain him
in the course which he had taken was one of
the bitterest reflections of his dying bed
With the flag of popular sovereignty in his
hand, and doing battle for the people them
selves, they suffered him to be overborne by
his enemies and insulted with defeat which
was disgrace to the voters of California
If his noble heart was broken, ere he died, it
was their most base ingratitude which did it.
Men who should have judged for themselves.
by the open and recorded acts of this mans
life, weakly listened to the savage ISLANDERS
against him which went Kissing through the
country, and besliraing the ignorant ears of
the multtude-slanders rs base as hell ever
concocted or the hell.doomed ever promul-
gated.
But, there were men-and their name is
legion-who knew Mr.. Broderick for what
he was, man great in heart and great in in
tellect, a true man in every sense of the
word lone of natures noblemen, and deserv-
ing of all praise for the manly and upright
course which he had pursued, not only as a
pilN"Oe ciIlIeH ouG dS representative vi tle
people in public capacity. These men will
honor his memory now that he is dead They
will help to rear his monument. They will
teach their children to visit it, and it will be
for many long years to come. as ito columned
whiteness pierces the air, silent but stern
rebuke to the wrong and outrage, the venal-
ty and corruption which stalk through the
land