The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-10-29
From the Philsdslphia Press.
upODERIcK Ann RuCHANAN

BRODERlCk AND BUCHANAN.
Too proud to make this deliberate per-
sonA slight the basis Of war upon the
Administration, no man in Washington Was
moro capable or willing to give disinter-
sstsd and effective support to the President.
No man more gladly responded to his prom
Use Of fair play to the people Of Kansas for
no man had seen the great principle OF
Popular Sovereignty more triumphant,
especially IN its results in tho organization
of the State Of California. But Mr.. Buch-
anan, almost in night, turned upon the
right, denied his pledges to principle, writ
ten as they are, and were, all over the
campaign Of 1856, and in nearly every pub
lie document up to . certain period in 1856,
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 resolution never to yield
up his own honor at the bidding Of the
Executive.
Then began crusade upon this man
unexampled, a. We have said in political
annals. The word was given to all the
organs Of tho Administration, to show no
mercy to the resolute "rebel." He was
sLokAeo Wv Ao1 uisREaco anu uoCoplt"sAoo'
His name was held up before the people a.
Kissing and scorn. The kennels were
raked for epithets against him. The most
offensive fabricatioDs were published to
discredit him. Every personal attribute
was denied to him. The fact that he begun
life without the advantages of education,
was flung into bis teeth, coupled with in,
conceivable insult and ignominy. Upstairs
taunted him with bis I" low birth and iron
fortune" lie was in sort of social quar-
antine. He was pointed at by the minions
of Office as traitor, and more than once
threats of personal violence were made, the
fulfllment 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 held in his hands was irresista-
Bile. The departments were shut upon him.
Although Senator from sovereign State,
having rights which could neither be limited
nor lessened BY party lines, he was as
steadily excluded from all participation in
the affairs of the Administration 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 he stood almost isolated in the
Senate he preserved wonderful equanimity
and moderation of department. No man
would have more heartily rejoiced if the
Administration had retraced its first false
step, and regretted its continuance in the
path Of wrong.
David c. Broderick has yielded up his
life for sacred principle. If he had sur
rendered to the Establishments of the Ad
ministration, he might to-day be living
among his numerous friends. 1t was only
because he refused to compromise the
truth, and to abandon his solemn pledges,
that We are called upon to mourn his I'M
timely death. Thus has closed a pure,
beautiful, and stainless life Thus has
fallen the first great martyr to the po-
litical principles of the campaign of 1859.
We ask the arch traitor to those principles,
If, in his Old age, and in the sunset Of his
life, he can feel that his hands are clear OF
the hearts blood Of DAVID c. BRoDERIcK?