Year: 1859

good man is dead. He on whom more
than any othenthe hopes of the good


were placed, is cut down in the midst
Of his usefulness In the full flush


of manhood and while mounting to
the zenith Of an honorable ar hition


David G. Broderick has died. To


the virtuous, the intelligent, the pa
/. triotic ofCalifornia no one now liv>
ing was so dear. The purity of his
private and political life, character
uncontaminated with vices, endeare9


himself to every man desirous of a


better state Of society in which to
rear and educate the rising genera
ton. No man has sustained at the


hands of his fellow citizens whose


good he aspired and labored to pro-
( mote more, and more persistent abuse.
Malignity has pursued the unaided


child of destiny IN his struggle to rise


peer with the highest From the


landing of David e. Broderick on


these shores down to the fatal hour


when The bullet of his enemies per-
formed its deputed work. his life was
continual battle. Bold, resolute
and decided; cool, sagacious and self
reliant; ambitious of an honorable


fame, and determined in purpose, his
enemies though for years they en-
compassed and harassed him with


wantou assaults, found in him foe
man whose tactics. skill and indomit-
able will and energy were inyincibie.
In spite of the combined and syste>
matte attacks of hordes of office hum
ters jealous of his power and purpose,
Broderick triumphed over them all
and reached the goal of his ambition,
a seat in the Senate of the United
States. L or two years that he occu-
pied the place he so hardly won, no
man has been looked upon with more
intense interest. The people who
knew him prophesied that in him
would be seen an unconquerable foe
to corruption, and a determined and
true friend of the public good. They
were not disappointed, With stern
front he met corruption in high places
and made war upon it. His assaults
were often impetuous and of telling


effect. He saved to the country in
the two short years of his Senatorial
career more from the pocket of spoils-
men than ali his predecessors or col
leagues from California. He could
not be bought or corrupted. There
fore did the hyenas who haunt the
federal capital gnash their teeth in
rage at the brave guardian of the


public purse and public virtue. His


life was in his hands from the moment


he struck for the righ. in the Senate


The unprincipled plotted his ruin


and destruction The Legislature OF


his own State essayed to disgrace


him for daring to maintain the prin'
ciples for which the people of the


Union had declared, and which he


believed to be true lie appealed to


the people that people for whom he


had laborel earnestly and with ar


eye single to their good-tbat peo


pie whose great interests he had al


heart-that people whose railroad he


was willing to devote his life to pro-
/ mote that people among whom he liz.


ed,whose good opinions alone he COW


eted and with whom he hoped to die
That people raised anew the cry
"release unto us Barrabas." They
, forgot their true friend and clustered
, around the corrupt and fawning syc


ophants of imbecie power. They
condemned the lion-hearted champi
on of right and worshipped at the
shrine of wrong. What great and
sensitive heart could fail to feel the
shafts Of such ingratitude WLc
, would not sooner die than be aban
doned b. those we love Who viii
say that the sting of unrequited af
fec,ion which lately pierced the hear
) of the one we mourn, was not too
poignant for the great heart to bear
and made him look upon death al


more to be courted than Stunned


Whatever secret eriefs may have
found their lodgment in the bosom o
David C. Broderick, death has can
celled them all. That bosom viii
heave with emotion no more. 1t ha
ceased from troubling and is at rest
, A good man has died but age
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