Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-07

occupied nearly an hour in their delivery
They abounded in patriotic illusions and
startling metaphors
At the conclusion of Mr. Lewis's remarks
Mr. Broderick rose and said-Fellow citizens:
! When l arrived in your town this afternoon
was informed by two gentlemen, citizens of
this place, that Mr.. Lewis was anxious to ad-
dress you this evening in reply to me. sup
posed at that time that Mr.. Lewis was gen.
tleman, and willingly consented to hear
him. Ibis meeting was called for the pur-
pose of giving Mr. McKibbin and myself an
opportunity ofaddressing you, and it was by
courtesy and particular request from me that
Mr. Lewis was permitted to come upon this
stand. understood from the gentlemen who
informed me of his desire, that Mr.. Lewis
wanted to defend his course in the Legisla-
ture Well, | have listened patiently, verv
patiently, to his speech, and have not been
able to discover that he corrected or refuted
any charge which brought against him, in
common with his fellow members charg
ed the Legislature, of which he was mem.
Der, of voting for Constitution which they
had never read. | stated that the instructing
resolutions passed. reached me twenty-five
days after my vote had been given on the
Lecompton Bill | see, fellow citizens, that
this youGC orator has been taking lessons
from DIR. win laughter and some of the
other Lecompton leaders, who have nothing
to deliver save abuse of "Brou rick" | am
not disposed to dignity this man with any
lengthy notice this evening. | expressed in
general terms contempt for him, along with
his brother members in the Legislature of
1858, and [ now am aware that in this in
stance the sentiment was most deservedy be-.
slowed. Laughter. But there is one re-
mark which he made to which | will call at
tention, and that is that when | received the
resolutions of instruction | spit upon them
and trod upon them. The charge is simply
untrue l made but very few remarks when
the resolutions were presented. have those
remarks with me, and l will read them to
you, and leave you to Judge whether they
were disrespectful or not [ stated when
DIR. Gwin presented the resolutions:
"The resolutions introduced by my col
league from the Legislature of California,
will have no influence upon my action here,
now or in the future. | am satisfied that
these resolutions do not express the opinions
of the people of California upon the question
to which they refer. am satisfied, Sir, that
four-fths of the people of California repudi-
ate the Lecompton fraud. / shall respect the
wishes of the people, and pay no respect to
the resolutions passed by a Legislature not
representing the opinions of the people OF
California. merely say this now for the
purpose of placing myself right on the re-
cord"
Now, leave it with you to determine
whether this language was improper for use
in the Senate, or disrespectful t. the egisla-
4,,,o .L ,Doeso1 t,., Fun y
did not spit upon the resolutions nor tram
Pile upon them. But this "Col. E. j. Lewis,
Esq" immoderate laughter and cries of "Oh,
dont!" has appealed to your prejudices-
lie says that we are linked with the Repub-
lican party. That is a very foolish charge,
as well as absolutely untrue. The Republi-
can party have a ticket before you for your
suffrages. SO also have the Leeompton and
Anti-Lecompton parties-all distinct and sep
arate organizations. We have made no allie
glance with the Republican party. We are
the Democratic party. We have the princi-
pies of the Democratic party-the Lecomp-
tonites have abandoned them. But this
young man saw fit TO tell you that the insti-
gators of the Wilmot Proviso are alone the
parties which are now engaged in combating
the Lecomptonites. lie might have stated to
you that the Chairman of the Lecompton
State Central Committee, Joseph p. Hodge,
was member of Congress "a Representa-
tiye--at the time the Wilmot Proviso was in.
troduced by David Wilmot, and that he not
only voted for it, but strenuously advocated
its passage. Sensation Joseph P. Hogde
is now Chairman Of the Lecompton State
Central Committee. shall not take any
special notice of Col. Lewis fiourishes here.
because / cannot find it in my heart to do so,
knowing full well that he has been near
bursting to make this speech. Laughter.
He has evidently had it pent up within him
for long time, and really. if L had not af-
forded him an opportunity to have discharged
it, God only knows what would have become
of him. Great laughter-"l13 guns ri Be
sides, L wish you to understand that aDpre
cate the fact that this man is not worthy o
my notice, and am travelling out of the re-
cord of respectabity in alluding to him and
his remarks at all. If | had been informed,
before he came upon this stand, that he in
tended to speak Of me as he did, of course
would not have met him. l knew him, in
the Legislature of 1855 | thought knew
him well, but was mistaken. IL has caught
the echo of abuse now being heaped upon
me; and in his silly conceit, he seeks
10 ape nlltlSGll luJO uOIOIltly. L Iileu 10
catch his eve when he turned around and
pointing to me called me that man.. laugh
teri in a tone of derision | have seen the
time when | would not have permitted such
talk [applausel but | am getting old and
capable, in that wisdom which informed age
usually brings of speedily converting anger
at a weak minded blackguard into compass
sionate pity. Besides, as | have said, this
young man has heard Dr. Gwin, and proba-
ably read kirkpatrick, and he was inspired
with an ambition to run as a competitor in
this race track. Laughter and applause I
| should rather turn my attention and give
it to the men he initiates and from whom,
after the 7th of September, [ will hold my
self in readiness to hear explicitly from.
will then pay quick attention to any commu-
nication which may be sent to me by this
old Lime Pointer; this man who has grown
old and rich, enjoying the positions into
which he worked his deceitful way over the
heads of the people of this State, and has
brought only disgrace and ruin upon you
He lives in Washington at an expense of over
twenty thousand dollars year, and the mys
terry is where he gets the money to keep up
his establishment Laughter. lie don't
own any visible property; he has not been
in the habit of paying his debts he was a
lage defaulter in Mississippi; and yet, in Te-
hama county, in the State of California, we
have a Mister, Squire, Colonel who alone
single handed, will come upon the stand be-
fore the people and defend him. Laughter
and applause. Fellow-citizens, l took no
notes of the Colonels remarks. l thought
at one time that would, but he spread from
a eulogy of the Lecompton party to an essay
on the Star Spanged Banner, and | lost sight
of him. TLaughter. | then became enrap