The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-10
TERRY's RRrRlBurIoa.

TERRY'S RETRlBUTI0N.
The defeat of Terry on the Democratic
electoral ticket, in California. by which
Garfield got one vote IN that state, hiss
attracted national attention, and called
up the history ofihe duel in which Terry
killed Broderiek. We clip the following
sketch of the affair from the Phiiadel-
nhia Telegraph:
The scratching Of presidential electors
is frequently indaiged in by cranky
voters, but it is seldom, in these latter
days, that this scratching results in any
thing more than iiSiid Indication of
personal appropriately. The particular
Democratic eieeIor in California who
has been defeated by the scratching pro-
cess is The notorious David 5. Terry, the
assassin of Broderick, and his defeat un-
der such peculiar circumstances as the
present, indicates that political virtue is
not altogether extinct in the state of the
hoodiums and Honorable Bilks.
The famous Terry Broderick duel of a
score of years ago. will bear recalling
under the present circumstances. David
@. BToderick, the victim of Terry, was
born in Nashingt,sn, ID. G., and was first
known in New York as a good stone
mason, and a leader among the some
what unruly firemen who made that CITY
q turbulent place twenty-five years ago.
Gifted with certain rude force, he won
the affection and esteem of the volunteer
firemen and roughs who were such
powerful element in New York, in the
old days. The men whom he controlled
were rougher than he, but among them
he was beloved, feared, aud implicitly
He 81 "A
netism were marvellous, and there was
no storm so violent that he could not
ride upon it; no exigency SO trying that
he could not cope with it. He rose to
be chief engineer in the days when that
Office gave its incumbent absolute
sway over n great mass of willful and
almost lawless men. He had a natural
turn for politics, and, fascinated by his
success while supported by the suffrages
of the firemen of New York, he ran
| for congress, IN 1916, and was defeated.
Soon after this disappointment, the Cal
ifornia gold fever broke out, and he sail
ed for the new Ell Dorado of the Pacific,
where, in the wild struggle for place and
power, he made himself felt. In wild,
| uneasy California was his congenial ele-
meBt. Broderick, warm, generous, bold,
brave and indOmitable, led manfally in
that unique battle of life.
Broderick was elected senator to the
| first legislature, and his hand was often
heavy on the lawless men who again and
again attempted to bring chaos into the
state. In 1856 he was elected to the
| United States senate. His instincts were
all against slavery, and he became the
| open foe of his colleague, William NJ.
GwIn, then the pro-slavery senator from
California. During the mysterious and
plotting days of Buchanan's administra-
ton, Broderick was the bold and fearless
champion OF feedom in the territories.
| He was the trusted friend and supporter
of Stephen A. Douglas, and when the
so-called Lecompton issue came in con
gress, not even Douglas himself was
more emphatic and scornful in his de
nunciations of the Kansas Nebraska in
fanny than Broderick. He was proscrib
ed by the "doughfaces" of the north a.
well as by the slave lords of the south
The enormous patronage of the young
state of California was given to Gwin
who, during our late rebellion, received
the dukedom of Sonora from Maximil
ian, was in favor with Jefferson Davis
and was finally captured and immured il
Fort Lafayette. A dangerous man to tn
pro-slavery Democracy, idolized by tn
liberty-loving masses of California
DIOdGAANh Was " DC 2OL II i
r said that a caucus of his political enc
mics was held in San Francisco to de
eide who should challenge him to figh
a duel. David s. Terry, who was fiXe
upon TO send the challenge, was from on
I OF the southern states, and was q fierc
, champion of their peculiar institution.
: He was, moreover. an accomplished dU
elist, while Frederick was not only nc
, duelist, but not even a good shot wit
/ the pistol, and 1t is a matter of traditi o
. that Terry was selected to give the oil
! noXious anti-Lecompton senator hi
9 quietus. ''The coden held sway in Gal
: tornia in those days. Broderick wa
a | proud, sensitive and tenacious of hi
. manly dignity. He went out to the feel
I in the gray of the morning with the fixe
: consciousness that he was going to hi
n execution. He fell MORALLY wounded
murdered with deliberation, We may sa,
His dying words were: They hay
killed me for opposing the extension {
slavery" One year later, these were il
a scribed on the banners that bore his fiji
s ure during the Lincoln campaign in I'll
/, city Were he died.
Oyer the bier of Brodcrick, expose
4 sn one of the open squares OF San Fra
: cisco, Edward ID. Buker, the friend {
, , Lincoln, and afterwards senator an
\ general, and WHO died on the field of ba
tie pronounced one of the most marveloI
r funeral orations of modern times. ]
u his eulogy on Broderick, in the senat
: Seward said that impartial history wOul
n rank the dead senator with Winthro
y Viiliers, Raleigh, Baltimore, Penn, an
. Oglethorpe-the organizers of our state
Then and there the tide turned. Di
: union in California was impossible aft
! the death Of Broderick. His slayer W;
u brought before the courts But IL
= courts were pro-slavery. There was
change of venue, long delays, and fin
trial III rural town, reached by waite
y from San Francisco. Sail boats wit
! legal functionaries and witnesses wer
i delayed, clocks were put forward by a
commodating creatures, the case was fl
, ally allowed to go by default.
|, Terry was chief justice of the supren
= court of the state, but resigned that c
l. fee TO fight Broderick. Although he G
:, capped all punishment for Broderick's a
y sassination, he was for some weeks
.e the hands of the San Francisco vigilant
4 committee, for stabbing man name
u Hopkins. When he finally regaint
n his liberty, he left the state for q tim
o o. and commanded Texas regiment in Il
d , confederate army during the rebellio
e After the war he returned to Californi
being unanimously elected . memb
at large of the Democratic state centr
committee of California, at the conve
tion held in July, 1875. In August
- last year he was nominated for attornt
general by the branch of the social,
: workingmen's party. which DEM
kearney so appropriately labeled Il
Honorable Biiks" For this Office
O. received but 1854 votes, although til
It. small vote was greater by thousanC
"a than that polled by any other candida
on the ticket of the Honorable Bilks
who was not endorsed by the straigl
g out Democrats. The placing of
rs name ON the Democratic electoral tick
re was in keeping with the blunderiI
policy which characterized the Pres
D. Dental campaign on the Democrat
side. The loss of one vote throue
Terry's appropriately, makes no diff
r ence to either party as matters no
= stand, but it might have made all Il
r. difference in the world, and even Il
h, California Democrats will be apt
shun this infamous assassin in the
ture. Time has its revenge. 1t
been slow, but none. the less sure,
ST Terry's case.-Philadelphi TELEGRAPH