Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1859 — Why Broderick was murdered. [ARTICLE]

Why Broderick was murdered.

In the eloquent funeral oration pronounced by Col. Baker, we are told what the lamented Broderick said in his last hours, as to the real cause of the murderous animosity that pursued him to an untimely and bloody grave. Said Baker: “As a man to be judged in his private relations, who was his superior? It was his boast, and amid the general license of a new country, it was a proud one, that his most scrutinizing enemy could fix no single act of immorality upon him. Temperate, decorous, self-restrained, he had passed through all the excitements of California unstained. No man could charge him with broken faith or violated trust. Of habits simple and inexpensive, he had no lust of gain. He overreached no man’s weakness In a bargain, and withheld no man his just dues. Never in the history of the State has there been a citizen who has borne public relations more stainless in all respects than he. “But it is not by this standard that he is to he judged. He was a public man, and his memory demands a public judgment. What was his public crime! The answer is in his own words: “They have killed me because I was opposed to the extension of Slavery and a corrupt Administration. ” Fellow-cit-izens, they are remarkable words, uttered at a remarkable moment; they involve the history of his Senatorial career, and of its sad and bloody termination.” Let not the truthful utterance of the dying Senator, he effaced from public remembrance. ff77”J°hn Mulhollund, a litle boy eight years old, was sitting on the dock at New York the other day, when a couple of rowdies came along,and one of them pushed him into the river, where he was drowned.