Year: 1861


Broderick's New Friends.


The Express is bothe.ing itself good deal
about the Broderick E%punging Resolutions,
and taking the Democratic papers to task
because they do not urge IN the Introduction
of them into the Legislature, aud their imme-
date passage. 1t seems to be afraid that the
Resolutions will not be successful One
would suppose that the Express had all at
once become the especial guardian of Mr..
Broderick's honor, it is so immensely horri-
fed at the idea OF resolutions Of censure not
being Immediately wiped ont Of the records
| 10y vote Of the present Legislature 1t
takas so much interest in the matter that it
proceeds very industriously to show that the
! Expunging Resolutions can be passed, and
argues the case as if it was fearful that the
| faiut-hear,ed in the cause might despair of
the ability to put them through. oh. they
can be easily passed, says the EXpress,-no
trouble about That just 50 ahead with the
business, put the thing through, be consistent
and do as you ought to do-protcct Brodo-
rick's honor This is all very well, but it
comes from suspicious quarter,


Now, wherefore all this anxiety on the
part Of the defeated Breckinndge faction and
their organs, (for they all chime together) to
have the Broderick Expunging Resolutions
introduced And why do they SO charm
ingly agree with their occasional allies, the
Republicans. in this matter? Why, they
imagine that these resolutions are to be the
entering wedge to divide the regular Demo
cratic party in this State, the Republicans
hoping, (like stupids as they are, in this casel
TO swallow up one side, aud the Rreekinridg'
ers calculating on getting the other.


! For our part, We are not at all afraid oi
these resolutions. As we have said before,
were we in the Legislature, and such resolu-
tions should come up; we would consider the
source from which they emanated aud the
ultimate purpose in view, and if we did not
like their surroundings, we would vote for
their indefinite postponement, though we
had been Broderick man from the time that
that stalwart leader first set his foot upon
the soil of the State Where there is SO much
anxiety on the part of those parallel haters
of our party.-the Brecknridgers and Lin-
colnites-to see this thing brought up in the
Legislature we think it should be pretty
closely scrutinized by every true friend of
the Democracy, whether Broderick or anti
Broderick, and the Vaccinations of the shall
low schemers who have it in hand, be thwar
ted, Why, the trick is too palpabe to de
celve any intelligent man, and it should be
met with quiet scorn and contempt. The
regularity of the Democracy of this State did
not depend upon either friendship to Brode-
rick or the contrary. 1t depended upon the
support of the regular nominee Of the Nation-
al Democracy for President. Those who re-
fused to support Douglas were boilers, and
for the protection Of "Broderick's honor" as
the cant goes, or don't vote for it, he is no
less Democrat, if he abides by the regular
organization of the party.


lneSe men VINO are SO anxious about the
honor Of Brodcrick, (Which is amply able to
take care of itself) are either Republicans or
iaetional boilers from the Democracy, who,
feeling themselves out in the cold, are ner-
vously desirous of getting out Of their own
company. They feel desalate, and no Won
der They will do almost anything to break
up the arrangement by which they are DOOM
ed to such a pitiful minority. They will
even take back all their abuse of the Doug
las and johnson men in the late canvass, and
kindly speak of them as Democrats What
if they did call Denver and Inge and Nugent
and others traitors to their party. They
weren't traitors! They didn't mean it'll
Why, bless your souls. we are willing to ac-
knowledge them to be Democrats, if you will
only just let us "re-organize the Democratic
party" and chop off the heads of Denver,
Inge, Nugent and the balance, after we are
organized


Gentlemen, you are clever and you are
persistent, but we rather think you will have
to stay out in the cold