Daily national Democrat., 1860-10-11

we nave not the documents before us from
which he quoted. He went ON to show that
when Senator Broderick asked Gwns CO.
operation with him in the establishment of
the Plaeerville Overland Mail route, Gwin
stated that he had not desired to ~mingle in
the matter" at all.
When the Tehaunterec route was Offering
to carry the United States Mail far cheaper
than the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Gwin
voted against it, and persistently refused to
support that important measure of economy
Mr.. De Long proceeded to quote from
some of the pungent letters of Ned Marshall
against Gwin, in 1854 and SO, or about that
period, over the signature of Interior, in
which Dr. Gwin is challenged to answer to
sundry charges against his official integrity,
which are put in no mealy -mouthed shape or
character.
He next charged him of having been in ia
vor of leasing ont the gold mines of Calitor-
mia, and cited his proof from the documents
Gwin, he said, had once sworn upon the
streets of San Francisco, that he would not
sit in the Senate of the United States by such
a man as Brodericb, and yet, directly after,
he came cringing at the feet of that same
man for the position of co-Senator with him,
offering and agreeing to give up the entire
Administration patronage Of the State of Call
ifornia, in acknowledgement of the favor.
When Hammond, of South Carolina, in
suited the white laborers of the North by
comparing them to the slaves of the South,
and designating both classes as the mudsills
of society, who must be kept under by the
superior classes, (such as Senators and the
like, said De Long, what did VIM. NJ. Gwin
do, as the Representative of a State, in which,
of all States of the Union labor is honorable,
dignifed and lofty Did he have any in
dignant remonstrance to make against so foul
fling at the character Of the people of Cal
ifornia Not a word did he have to say,
not syllable of indignant denial escaped his
lips not whisper of reproof for the self-as
suming aristocrat who had dared to utter the
| insult. For that alone, said De Long, il
there were no other record against him,
would refuse to support Wm. NJ. Gwin fol-
any office of honor or trust at the hands oi
the people
After having proceeded in this strain fol
some moments, Mr.. DeLong quoted the speech
R. G. Wier, a venerable old gentleman o
San Joaquin, an old Line Jackson Democrat
and soldier in the war of 1912, in reference tc
Gwin, in the Anti-Lecom2tOn Democratic
State Convention of 1859, in which, among
other things, he said:
"Sir, have known DR.. Gwin for quarter
of a century, and as the illustrious Judge
Chief Justice Marshall, once said in the
| Supreme Court: 1t is no time now to mince
matters l say have known Gwin for q
quarter of century. have nothing to say
against him. but believe he is one of the
| damndest robbers cheers and laughter] that
| ever entered the Senate of the United States 3"
Loud cheers
"Now, DR.. Gwin hates me as he does an old
rattlesnake He knows am the man and he
gives me the credit of it. He knows that it
was so. He knows that am the man that
had the power in a District Convention in
the State of Mississippi to defeat him in his
effort to get a seat in the Congress of the
United States Cheers. After that defeat of
Gwin, and in very short time after, where
do you find him Why he came here and
for the Tuolumne and San Joaquin and other
parts Of the State, not yet counties. for Sacra-
mento that had nothing but Suffers Fort, for
San Francisco hardly county. to represent
this State, yet hardly known, by the Eternal
God, sir, we find him candidate for the
Senate of the United States"
Mr.. DeLong concluded with brief and
logical exposition of the principles upon
which he and his party stood in this contest,
and took his leave amid wild and uproarious
Dlaudits