The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-11-11
Address of Father Gallagher at
the Grave of Rrat,ericfs

The following address YVES delivered by Rev.
H. L. Gallagher at the grave Of Senator Broder.
ick:-
Bclored and eSieemel Fellou. Citizens
You assemble for the purpose of behold
ing the earthly remains Of Hon. David c.
Broderick deposited in their final resting
place-a most melancholy office-and one
that wrings the christian hearts of our peo-
pie throughout the length and breadth Of
the land with grief deep, intense and I'M
alleged, over that pernicioUs error which
created the artificial necessity that has
cast the eternal silence of death, upon this
noble young Tribune. With what consti-
tutes the character of good or bad, an
honest or dishonest politician; or with
what he was not in that respect, have
nothing to do, nor do obtrude any idea |
may have torman of his private piety or
otherwise; but whilst ] am compelled to
regret and condemn unequivocally the
great irreparable fault by which he con-
scented to his own death, feel pride, and
esteem it privilege here in your presence,
and in common with You all, to record
my high appreciation of the public virtues
Of the man, who, considering the time and
circumstances, could say, without fear of
contradiction in the hearing of the whole
State, "The man is not living or dead
who ever saw me at a gambling table, in
a brothel, or under the influence of intoxi-
eating drinks
This implies no more virtues than
mans duty enjoins; but it is confessedly
refreshing instance to the world, to which
say all earthly honor to him of whom
such things, can with truth be said. Sub
sequent to his sad mishap he sought and
received the consolation of religion. We
may and must presume that his repentance
was sincere and genuine-that be forgave
his enemies; for there is no place in Chris,
tian ethics for revenge. lie was reconcil-
ed, therefore, to the church, and received
her last rites. In her unquestioned right,
therefore, at his Holy Mother, would she
have claimed him to lay down with honor
in the ground, which she had consecrated
as the temporary resting place for annoint-
ed bodies of her chlldrenbut that Inhappi
u for him, by the accursed duello, the priv
ilege was forfeited. A church that has
with unabating persistency issued and re-
newed her anthema from century to cen
fury for twelve hundred years, against this
Pagan code of blood from the time that
Pope Nichoeous |. denounced it in his
letter to King Carlos the Bold of France,
in ESQ., to the present day, could not be
for human caprice or temporary expedien-
CIV. he addressed me as father-I, in
deed. regarded him as my son in Christ, 10
his repentance. and the grief | feel that
his misguided act deprives me of whatever
sorrowful satisfaction there NIGH be in de
posing him with solemn honor in his con-
secrated tomb, is such as oppressed the
paternal heart of the noble Brutus, when
of the sons of his bosom lie said, II Lictor
collcgu nsanus."
Your thousand sorrowinG hearts attest
this day that in your solemn and sincere
condemnation of this code of blood, Won
cantirm and re echo the church's senti-
mehts. but that she, Mother of the Faith
full, is ever consistent obnoxious to no
vicissitude nor varied phase Of teeling-in-
dieting discriminatory, this temporal penal
ty on all who may set atdetiance her ma
ternal mandates. Would to God, beloved
and esteemed fellow citizens, that this day
which presents to the horror of civilized
world, the bleeding, mangled spectacle of
a murdered Senator-( make no allusion
to his antagonist, | say so with with en-
phasi.) I'VE might behold the incipient
step inaugurated On this memorable spot
that would trample in the dust that last
dctested relic of Pagan barbarity. Chris
tian men, on Bonded knee, before this mel
anchoIy spectacle, with right hands raised
to Heaven, registering there their solemn
VOWS that they would never cease from
peaceful, legal, constitutional agitation Of
this question, till every remnant of it is
eradicated from our Christian State-a
monument more durable than brass or
marble, and more valuable than the hands
of men could correct.
The reverend speaker here turning to
the corpse, said, with much feeiing:-
''Peace to thy ashes, JOY to thy spirit, tru-
est and most unseIfih Of friends, and most
moral of public men"
The coffin having been deposited in the
vault, and placed by itself in niche pre-
pared for it, where it will remain until a
final resting place shall have been selected
in fairgrounds of the cemetry, the concourse
dispersed, and leaving the body ex-senator
Frederick to the silence of the tomb, re-
turned to the city. And thus terminated
the last act Of the melancholy event.
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