Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-13
senusors Broaor,ul and Dsasias.

Henntors Brodurioh aud Donaias.
The Missouri Democrat lakes up the sceusa-
ton boldly mads by some OF tho California
press that the de.th Of Senator Broderick was
prsconcerted murder, and insist that the oire
cumstantial evidence is not less conclusive than
positive testimony would be- The conspiracy
against Brcderick manifested itself early in the
canvass. The bloodhounds were on his track
tool Of Terry challenged him. Gwin was
resolved to have revenge for Broderick's dis.
closure Of his baseness. Terry, however, was
put forward because he was a dead shot. Had
Broderick not fallen, Gwin and Denver were to
follow with challenges Ills death was re-
solved on, and the Distribution Of the spoils in
prospect embraced the suecessorship Of the
deal Brojerick ..
The Free Soil principle in California has
been nourishod by the blood Of maryrs. Fer.
guscn, friend of Brodcrick, was killed Ivy a
partisan of Gwin; tho editor of the Alta Cali
iornia, and the founder of the San Francisco
Bulletin, fell victims to vengeance of the pro-
slavery leaders. Broderick is the last but not
the least The Democrat presents another
aspect and another relation of the death Of Bro
derrick on which the public mind will not fail to
dwell 1t says:
Broderck followed Douglas in his resistance
to the hated Lecompton Constitution, thereby
ncurring the enmty of the Administration -
California, through her Legislature, DECLARED
for the Presidents policy, and instructed her
Senator, who opposed that policy, to resign
He returned to hrs constituents and uniurled
the flag of popular sovereignty. lie planted
himself on that principle exclusively aud Ste
phen Arnold Douglas had no truer nor more
incorporating follower. Ali the anim1sity
of his opponents was reused into more intense
and vindictve hatred because he so thoroughly
identified himself with tue great enemy of the
| President If there was one manin the United
States who had irresistible claim on the frcn d.
ship and support Of Douglas, it was Broderick.
! When the emnity which Douglas had drawn
upon himself in the Senate threatened to as.
sume the shape of physi,al force, Broderick
was the Ajax from behind whose shield he, the
! Little Giant, shot his arrows Such were the
relations which subsisted between the two men.
Yet, no sooner did the news of the defeat OF the
| Douglas Broderick ticket arrive here than the
| Douglas organs burst out in exultant editorials
at the result Of the election. They rejoiced
one and all-the Missouri Republican, the
! Springfield Register, the Chicago Times, and
their numerous echoes in Illinois-that Latham
and his colleagues on the buchanan ticket were
elected, and that the popular sovereignty ticket
was defeated They rejoiced at the success Of
| the ticket which represented the principles of
| Jefferson Davis and James Buchanan, and at
the defeat of the ticket which represented the
| principles professed by themselves aud their
leader, in common with Brnderick They even
slyly contributed to elect the one and defeat the
other. We need not say that all this was done
at the instgation of Douglas The article al.
ready referred to in the Chicago Times, bis
home organ, permits US to entertain no doubt
on the subject, and we challenge the world to
produce more hagrant case of moral ohlquity
and political treachery and baseness. We can
imagine nothing which would have so much
eInbltteTed the last moments of the true-hearted
Broderick as this exhibition of falsehood, sell
ishness and ingrattude. Happily, he was
spared the knowledge Of it.
| Much as we are opposed to Douglas, we
could wish that his character was free from
the trait which this episode discloses, or rather
the existence Of which it confirms, for it had
been often before manifested. True to his own
designs and false to all besides, he sacrifices his
| friends without the slightest conjunction. He
has played exactly the same role in relation to
! the PENNSYLVANIA election Taere he also sup
ports the Buchanan ticket although it's can.
didates, and the platform on which they stand,
expressly ropudiate the doctrines which he has
chosen to uphold as the true Democratic doc
trines. He has betrayed Forney as he betrayed
Broderick; but FOrney who has keener in.
sight than himself into the events of the day,
not only refuses to follow him, but draws the
veil aside from his illogical and reereant con-
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