The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-26
BAKERS GRAFTON.
The Famous Funeral Address
Over Senator Broderick's Body.

The Famous Funeral Addres.
Over Senator Broderick's Body
The following funeral grafton
| pronounced by Colonel E. d. Baker
on the occasion of the burial OF
Senator David G. Broderick, has
passed into history as one of the
finest eulogies ever delivered. The
Senator was killed by Judge Terry
in duel in Calf Jrnia in 1859:
A senator lies dead In our midst
He is wrapped in a bloody shrOud,
and we, to whom his tolls and cares
were given, are about to bear him to
the place appointed for all the liY-
ing. 1t is not fit that such a man
should pass to the tomb unheralded
it is not ft that such a life should
steal unnOticed to its close; it is
not tit that sucE a death should
call forth no rebuke, or be
followed by public lamentation. 1t
is this conviction which impels the
gathering of this aSsemblage. We
are here of every station and pur-
suit, of every creed and character,
each in his capacity o. citizen. TO
swell The mournful tribute which
the majesty of the people offers to
the unreplying dead.
He lies to-day surrounded by
little of funeral pomp. No banners
drop over the bier, no melancholy
music floats upon the reluctant air.
The hopes Of high-hearted friends
6roop like fading flowers upon hi.
breast, and the struggling sigh COM
pels the tear in eyes that seldom
weep. Around him are those who
had known him best and loved him
longest; who had shared the
triumph and endured the defeat.
Near him are the gravest and
nOblest of the State, possessed by a
grief at once earnest and sincere /;
while beyond, the masses of the
people whom he loved, and for
whom his life was given, gather
like a thunder cloud of swelling and
indignant grief.
In such a presence, fellow-citi-
zens, let US linger for moment at
the portals of the tomb, whose
shadowy arches vibrate to the public
heart, to speak few brief words of
the man, of his life and of his death.
Up to the time of his arrival in Cali
fornia his life had been passed
amid events incident to such a
character. Fearless, self-reliant,
open in his enmities, warm in his
friendships, welded to his opinions,
and marching directly to his pur-
pose through and over all opposition,
his career was checkered with sue
cess and defeat; but even in defeat
his energies We're strengthened and
his character developed.
When he reached these shores his
keen observation taught him at
once that he trod broad field, and
that a higher career was before him.
He had no false pride; sprung from
a people and of race whose Voca-
ton was labor, he toiled with
his own hands, and sprang at
q bound from the workshop
to the Legislative hall. From that
time there congregated around him
and against him the elements of
success and defeat-strong friend
ships, bitter enmities, high praise,
malignant calumnies-but he trod
with a free and proud step that on
ward path which had led him to
glory and the grave.
RoIloo oyti0onct tho man xr,hooo
body lies before you was your Sen
ator. From the moment of his
election his character has been
maligned, his motives attacked,
his patriotism assailed, his courage
impeached. What was his crime :?
Review his history consider his
public acts = weigh his private
character-and, before the grave en-
closes him for ever Judge between
him and his enemies!
AS a man--to be judged in his
private relations-whO was his
superior? 1t was his boast, and
amid the general license of a new
country it was a proud one, that
his most scruuinizing enemy could
fix no single act of immortality upon
him! Temperate, decorous, self
restrained. he passed through all
the excitement of California un-
stained! No man could charge him
with broken faith or violated trust
OF habits simple and inexpensive,
he had no lust of gain. He ovel-
reached no mans weakness in a bar
gain, and withheld from no man his
just dues. Never in the history of
the state has there been citizen
who has borne public relations more
stainless in all respects than he.