Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-23
HIS CRIMINAL CAREER.
Judgment of a Representative D.
cratic Paner

HIS CRIMINAL CAREER.
Judgment of Representative Demo.
cratic Paper.
The Placerville Weekly Observer, a repre-
sentative Democratic paper, has the follow.
ing editorial on the death of David s.
Terry:
The timely official shot which killed
David S. Terry, arrested and avenged a
brutal assault, characteristic of the assail.
ant. 1t closed a criminal career, distin.
guished by shameless. infamies. The Icold.
| blooded blackguard belonged to class oil
treacherous and brutal ruffians, who I'm.
| wept and unregretted, are passing rapidly
away. His fate is bewsiie6 by none but
| his boon companions, and few surviving
confederates in successive conspiracies
| against society and Government Hence
the universal verdict of decent people and Of
| the press, which reflects their sentiments,
will be, and is. that his sudden and in
glorious death was caused by drastic dose
| of his own medicine.
The doom he invited and deserved was
only too long deferred. Dust to dust
earth to earth, and peace to his ashes
| Let the other darkness into which he has
passed cover venial sins and the average oil
human vices. Let times half brother
condone such faults and frailties as are in
herent in human nature. Let the sepul.
chral voice and hollow laughter which
| were the echoes of heart dead to all the
better sentiments and ASPIRATIONS of hu.
mainly be heard no more forever. But
| while charity with averted face and mental
reservations consigns him to an ignoble
grave, it is the office of that even handed
Justice, to which he has forfeited his GRIM
lnaI life mako IT WARNING 10 for
all time to come.
But why expose the shameless audacity
of the BLACKBOARD who sought, with favor
able opportunities, to make his crimes con-
spicuous? From his first war whoop in
border fray to the last browning infamy OF
his diabolical and disreputable life, he was
a predatory soldier of fortune intent upon
the bad eminence he attained. With the
treachery of an Apache Indian. he had the
courage which comes from the trick of the
weapon" and superio; physical strength.
In the cold-blooded and vindictive conspir-
acy to hunt down and kill the gallant
Broderick, he sported shield blazoned
with the name of chivalry to cover the
| crime of murder" The sectional and sim
lister motive of the hair-triggered conspir-
acy to kill the organizing and representa-
tive leader of the Douglas Democracy is
well known. 81 die" he said, because |
was opposed to a corrupt administration
and the extension of slavery" But the
dead here was mightier than the living as
sassin. From Lone Mountain to the ayeng-
ing Heavens the moral and fighting forces
of the universe were proclaiming the COM
ing triumph of the good cause for which he
died.
With the hanging mark of Cain upon
him, the apostate Judge, who never felt
nor feigned moral obligation or loyal SEN
timent, withdrew from subordinate con-
spiracies against Northern men and insti-
tutions in California, to Join more gigantic
confederacy against the nation, Having
shared the crimes and husks of the rebel
lion and tarIied for the benefit of robust
health two years in Mexico, he returned to
the State in whose penitentiary he should
have spent the seven years OF his absence.
He came back sadder and sourer, but not
better man.
The heart that broke when the rebellion
| went down before the eagles of the Repub-
lie was still in arms against the people and
their Government. The rancorous and re-
morseless rebel, embittered by defeat and
torn by the vulture of disappointment, was
still false and faithless unbeliever in the
| force that crushed him. The red handed
| conspirator against the peace and dignity Of
| the State, when remanded for past offenses
| to social and political ostracism. if less
hopeful and confident, was more morose
and malignant. By his prurient marriage
| of an adventures, better than himself, he
| had gained loss of ante-nuptial friends
| and fortune. And when the coveted mil
lions of her departed paramous went giim.
| mering from sight, her last sutton and frs
husband, had nothing TO show for love OIL
luck but the charming Sarah Althea her
| self. Hence the concerted cry of disap-
| pointed rage with which all the suits
against Sharon, for love or money, were
consolidated in one deadly, double-ba
| relied, breach. loading, self-cocking case o.
aggravated insult, SANDER and violenct
against Courts and Judges. With Just this
case and no other provocation than his OWE
nastiness, the brutal and shameless black
guard who assaulted Judge Field, crossed
| the inviolable circle which conseryes the
independence and security of Judges anG
| Courts, and messengers of death exchanged
horses to tell how brave officer avenged
the wrong.
| The riddle and irony of Fate never
looked so much like the compensations O
Divine Justice. While the deathless name
and memory of David G. Broderick ar,
| spell words of honor and slogans of honor
| those of the notorious Terry are SYNONYM!
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Courts and civic societies that yiei witt
| each other in respectful homage to the deac
lion, not one has condescended to motto,
! the dismal death and burial of his slayer
1t is not now the estate of Sharon that is t
be despoiled and wasted, but the less tempt
ing one of Terry is to be the dry bone O
contention. The disloyal and diabolica
coDspiracies for pelf and power, in which
the mercenary and murderous Terry warreC
upon individual life, social order and goo6
government, are blackening in the wind
that winnow fragrance on the monumental
shrine of BrodericS, and pay loving hom
age to the flag of The free and the hom,
of the brave And now that the BULL
and blackguard who courted his fate ha
expiated his criminal aspersions and as
saul,s upon learned, dignifed and veneer
able judges, their untarnished lives ant
| regulations are in the safe keeping of tn
States and nation they have served so Ion,
and well-an imperishable heritage of yir
tue, Justice and honor.