The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-23
NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY, AUGUST %, 1859.

SENATORIAL COURTESY Our OF THE SENATE
The fierce personal controversy between two
United States Senators-Mr. Frederick and Dr.
GwiD, Of California which is just DOW ei,',ipg
the public, is matter for serious reflection Ger
tain charges, it will be recollected we're brought
by BrodeIick against Gwin Ia one Of his stump
speeches, which by their gravity and iu;empe-
lance Of language would. it was thought, lead Ia
hostile meeting. Broderick, however, pre-.
vious to entering into the contest, had protected
himself by declaration that be would not allow
bimself to BIZ provoked into breach of the
peace. The dispute has, therefore, resolved
itself into war of words, which is being carried
on with bitterness and unctuousness of vitupe-
ration that belong to spheres of life ia which
Senator's and legislators are not usually sup
posed to move We Gull from Dr. OWNS speech
ut Yreka, on the Esd of July, few of the flowers
Of rhetoric with which he repealed his colleagues
accusations
As TO ssodercks reuar about the Senatorial esct,oo
they are tissue OF fAssnoods nom begnniDg 70 end.
be- false Latham IVES victim 70 Brodercks vilsuv in
hst contest Uuder sarb Of friendship be concerted
conspiracy against me that 10 without . parallel 10
this any obsr State He deceived me- and toeo tried
70 rum me- but turned upon him and as minions and
will pursue them - long a. lve
After his had failed BIO attempted 70 devt,oy
me- have abundant proof OF these facts and had pre-
ago last spring BE heard Of IT, and IKE co Wsrd hound
begged quarter
He also bates the democratic party whose represents
ves In the State Legislature branded him q the mos,
infamous man that ever sai In the Senate his false
hoods about Latham, NOMINEE for Governor aud np
IN
bis election.
BE acknowledges he was in the market His own
election will, In my opinion, be proved 10 have been
brought about BY promises he intended 70 perform
He chs enged this discussion We will see II be
will challenge me again 70 meet him after what have
said bm 70 night, for me 70 expose to bis face his
berries on the Stae and San Francisco easures whence
be got the punoer funds that collected speed as be
says in favor of the democratic partybut In fact TO pro
cure his election TO the by bribery AID cor
rupton Inc attacks OF such fall harmless at nv
feet.
And these men are United States Senators and
prominent members of the democratic party
Frederick was, to be sure, a Bowery boy, and
clambered to his present elevation by means ia
miliar to city politicians Once there, how
ever, he should not have forgotten the
respect due to his high position and
to the constituency that placed him in it. The
came remark applies to DR.. Gwin, with this diff
ference, that there is less excuse to be found in
his antecedents. The Golden State has no very
great reason to be proud of its representatives.
Their eloquence, it must be owned, is not of that
golden responsiveness" which, like the Apos.
ties, sheds balo around whatever it touches.
1t belongs rather to the passionate style of decla
nation which prevails at the Five Points, and
which usually ends in a row and month in the
penitertiary. With such exhibitions before US,
it may we'll be asked to what depth of degrade.
ton is the national representation destined by
the loose habits and foul-mouthed language Of
its members?