The Shasta courier., 1859-07-30
NUMBER 21
Gwin ana BrSaerick.

The personal contest now going On before the
people of this State, between Senators Gwin
and Broderick, almost entirely ovetshadows
avery other feature of the canvass For bitter
ness we can find no parallel in the annals of CAL
fornia elections They have each learned that
here are hard knocks to receive rs well as to
give.
In La. Porte Mr.. Broderick, in reply to Gwn's
Forest Hill speech, said
" This old Lime Pointer undertakes. AZ a
yoodly distance, to arraign me- shall hot
speak of him tonight with much harshness.-
will be able to prove to you that he is drip
1fsg with corruption and that instead of repre-
senting you, he has been the representative of
that he found himself in tile Uni
TED States Senate disgraced man, for he acl
cepted his election upon terms upon which no
honorable man would agree to. He saws that
|. saved my friends salaries, while | was in.
huential in reducing the salaries of his friends
what would this prove, if anything? Dr..
twin IS an Administration man, and has a
party majority OF ten or twelve members, TO
winch ne should look, for. support. / am in
the anti administration ranks-one Of the hit.
terest enemies of the Administration in the
United States. Why does he attribute influence
70 me while he effects to despise me? Heisa
old man, an old Senator, having held the pbst
OF United States Senator for eight years, while
have held the Office of Senator but for two
years can give you the reason for his lack
of influence. His word is not believed in the
United States Senate. True it is that Too mis-
Davis, Brown, and other chivalric gentlemen
permit him to associate with them and vote
with them, but they never believe anything he
says"
In reply to these remarks of Mr. Broderick,
and others which be made at the city of Nevada
relative to the Senatorial election, which VIC
gave last week, DR.. Gwin, in his Yreka speech,
as telegraphed to the Standard, says:
As to his (Brodeticks) remarks about the
Senatorial election, they are tisshe Of false
hoods from beginning to end know the main
portion Of his statements about Latham to be
false Latham was e victim to Broderick,s vii.
lainy in that contest. Under garb of friend.
snip ne cohcocted conspiracy against me that
is without parallel in this or any other State !:
he deceived, and then tried to ruin me, but I
turned upon him and his minons and will mir
sue them as long as live. I acknowledge with
shame, that for q time was deceived by him.
and am willing to atone for il In sackclotb
and ashes. To suppose he was my friend. was
of itself Degradation that nothing but the
passion engendered by a bitter contest would
justify he intended to defeat my Nomination,
while protesting to BE my friend up to the very
moment when it was made in caucus. After
his schemes had failed he attempted to DESTROY
me. have abundant proof of these facts. and
had prepared them for publication in Wash:
ington City two years ago; last spring he heard
OF 1t, and likes covering hound begged quar-
tiers. was persuaded then to desist by his
solemn promises that he would publish an ad-
dress to the people of this State contradctins
the vile ISLANDERS he had himself concocted a.
gainst me he then had some hopes of being a
respected member of the Senate and he knew
that on the publication of the facts had COL
lected, he would be recognized as a disgraced
man. Now, he has no hopes he is Infamous
is trying by falsehood and Misrepresentation I'd
bring down others TO his level-he also hates
the democratic party, whose representatives in
the Legislature have branded him as the most
infamous man that ever sat in the Senate
Hence his fasehoods about Latham, our nominee
for Governor, and his attempt to shift the con-
troversy from me to him, TO injure his election.
But this shall not avail him ; ] am no candidate.
and the contest between us is personal and out
side of the party contests of the day. He does
not, IN his speech, attempt to disguise the fact
that he was prostituting the high office that had
Just been conferred upon him, to monopolize tho
reuerai patronage to pay his eectioneeting
debts; whilst it is false that intended, by any
act of mine, to say or do more than 10 abstain
from the contest for the Federal Offices in this
State, as had said thousand times before
had my intercourse with him. He acknowledges
he was in the market; his own election will, ir,
my opinion. be proved to have been brought
about by premises he never intended to perform,
and other base acts that no one else would have
resorted to- He challenges me in this discuss
sion; we will see if he will challenge me again
to meet him after what have said of him to-
night for me to expose to his face bis robberies
on the State and San Francisco treasures,
whence be got the plunder funds that be COL
ected to spend, as he says, in favor of the DEM
ocratic party-but in fact, to procure bis cleo
ton to the Senate by bribery and corrtbtiun.=.: =:
rhe attacks of such a man fall harmless 1t nv,
|eet. We have served two years togethefs in. tia,
Senate; he has returned home disgraeed, dis.
honored while hold position in the parry that
elected me, Of which any man might be ps5Sd.ao
lie will slander and lie upon me, it is his v66atisa
and has been that of his minions for years. .butI
will survive il now, as have heretofore: the
more he abuses me, the more firmly wsR htld>
the confidence ofmy constituents. a.s