The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-10-19
Deaf. OF D.via G.. nroacr,ck.

DcAlA Oh DdFt0 IL EBToacrlCks
,, Many of oar exchanges are filed with detail
of the death of this gentleman in a duel wit
Judge Terry. The Opposition journals, pal
ti%cularly, are disposed to have him eanonize
as a saint and . martyr.
While we are opposed to ducliag, and dc
tplore the circumstance attending his death
and while we have no defence to make of hi
antagonist, what has been said of the transac
ton in ~certaia quarters may justify us in the
expression of the opinion that Mr.. BRoDERIcE
was a bad and reckless man, and provoked, il
a thousand ways, the doom that finally overlook
him.. His character was that of 4 rufian from
his youth-and his last political success wa:
achieved by high-handcd b~ullyism and cor
ruption. The manners of the "'short boys
and "rounders" he carried With him into the
United States Senate. The ''pomp and cir.
cumstance" attending his funeral by the
mercurial population of San Francisco, remind
us of the pageantry which was got up in New
York on the occasion of the death of WILLIAM
Poole, who lost his life under similar circum-
stances.
We hope the violent cad of Mr. BR~oDERIcK
may have a ~salutary effect upon the class of
polit clans, too numerous in certain liberated
spots of the country, who seek to attain their
ends by the means practiced by him.
Touching the charge of conspiracy" to slay
Mr.. BRoDERIcK. which has been SO rccklessly
made by the N. Y. Tribune and other journals
of that character, we copy the following, which
renders Of no value the political capital which
Republicans have sought to make of the mat
ter:
From the San Francisco Herald, Sept. 20.
Cause OF tho OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Duel.
The steamer of to-day viii bear TO the East
the intelligence OF the death Of the Hon. Da-
Tid G.. Frederick, late Senator Of the United
States, from a wound received in a duel-h;s
antagonist being the Eon. David S. Terry,
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court of the
California. no affair of the kind ever took
place in this State that was so grossly misrepre-
A studied attempt has becn made to |
the public mind in regard to all it's cir
cumstanees, and We have no doubt that by to-
days mail the ISLANDERS so monstrously circu-
among the people of California, will With
equal industry be disseminated through the
States. OF this wiIfui pervcrsion of
facts we must acquit the immediate friends of
he deceased Senator. For tie most part their
,orrow at his loS has not made them unjust
The outcry comes from the Black Republicans,
~ whom the opportunity has been seized with
'erocious avidity, tc make capital for their
2arty.
The effort, VIC are'happy to say, has entirely
It is well known that the difficulty
between Messrs. Terry and Frederick was
Wholly disconnected with the events of the
Neither was it identified in any
ingle particular with the antagonism between
.Iessrs. Broderick and Gwin. Bfr. Terry has
lever keen a friend of SIR. Gwin; he has never
lad any afiliation, personal or political, with
Senator; and, furthermore, We haze the
nest positive assurance that no friend of RIr.
win was in the confidence of Mr. Terry IN re-
atiase teAie proposed ee-TFesPonacnca with DIr.
So much for the charge OF conspi-
acy. Tn vile accusation OF unfairness in the
ght has already been abundantly refuted.