Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-16
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J q great deal of comment, and among other things we are told that Broderck was never drunk or gambled. In 1S48 he kept a drinking saloon, in Washington street, New York. He was man of coarse abilities and one in whom hatred usurped the place of principle. His career and that of a politician in our State had many points of similarity. Violent, personal denuncia- tions, brow beating, reckless assertions, formed the staple of his speeches. Even the papers friendly to him said of him that !" he denounced his opponents in the most vituperative terms, as spectators, plumber CTS and thieves" Those who wish to make capital of his death are endeavoring to make itappear that his death was political mat ter. Terry, who shot Broderick, was per sonally and politically opposed to Gwin, nor did the latter or any of his friends have my thing to do with the duel Broderick' s term in the U S. Senate would have ex- pired in 1863.
 B. F. Butler, the emocratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts, is giving the combined opposition "particular jesse " He challenges Gov Banks to stump the State with him. He shows up the reform schools of that State in a hideous light They are schools of vice and prohigacy.- The negro militia movement is shown to be unconstitutional and was so declared by Gov. Banks in 1853. The following is a striking picture of nothern philanthroply:
 Let us look at another thing by which propose to show that while our republican friends have been so busy looking after the
 interests of the negro, they have neglected the interests of the white man. Ipray you listen to me moment. The subject to which 1 would now call your attention, has been already alluded to by the chairman the evils of centralization. 1 think these evils are nowhere shown in a clearer light than in our system of pauper charity. AL low me to state a few facts According to the statistics furnished by the present State legislature, as report of their own com mittee, 1t is more dangerious to spend a year in Massachusetts aims house than it would have been to have led the chcrge of Zouaves at Magenta. see that this state ment strikes some of you almost with dread Let me repeat. There was larger pro- portion of the regiment which led the at tack at the battle of Solferino came out from that battle unscratched, than were of the panpers of 1858, who came out alive from the State alms-houses of Massachu- setts. Sensation. Allow me to give you the figures. How many was the aver age number of paupers in the State alms- houses during the year 1858? Twenty seven hundred and some odd. How many died in the year ending the first of October, 1857? Six hundred and sixty six one in every four. Every fourth man, woman and child that went into the State alms- house of Massachusetts died and was buried in the Potter's field or a pauper's burying ground Three hundred and forty one children, under the age of five years, died in those charnelhouses; and the physician of one of these houses says he does not ex- pect to rear but three per cent. of the chil- dren brought there under one year old!- Three out of a hundred-all the other nine ty-seven to go to a nameless gravel Why this whole commonwealth felt itself out ragged because there came report from Kansas that six or eight men had been killed; and in all the wars of Kansas there were but nineteen we'll attested cases of men being killed; and yet our mothers, wives, and daughters secured the country for old clothes and other comforts to send the peo- pie of that territory. Laughter. In that same year three hundred and odd children of Massachusetts soil died like dogs in a kennel in our own aims. houses, while we were weeping over the imaginary wrongs of Kansas! Cheers.
 1 speak under the responsibilities of my place. The busy pens of my friends the reporters are already sending abroad the statements I am making; and I refer yon, my friends, to the documents published by the present State legislature Senate docu- ment, No. ?, the report of the investigat. ing committee, with its appendix of statis- tics on the subject of State charities.
 Again ask, my friends. is 1t not time that we looked at home? Where is Mrs. Stowe? Where is Greeley in the Tribune? Where is the extra philanthropy of the humanitarians? Where is that denouncer of great and good men, Wendell Phillipse Where are all these men who regulate the affairs of people afar off? Is there not ample room for their charities at home?- l65 people dying at Bridgewater. 1l5 at Tewksbury, and l01 at Manson! Forty in. fants dead in two months! Oh, but they were unite infants! Laughter. Why look after them?'
 The following is nice specimen of artful lodging;