The Duellists Traditional Cache
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A small cache located at the historical marker for the last duel in California - between Senator David Broderick and Justice David Terry. The monument for the duel is about 250 feet from the cache (cache placement proximity issues).
Dueling was still considered a proper way to settle feuds in San Francisco in the 1850s.
Two men, both having suffered the disappointments and frustrations of political failure, were egged on by their...friends into fighting a duel for which neither of them had much stomach. After the election of 1859, Terry insisted on making a speech accusing the faction which had defeated him [for chief justice of the state supreme court] of being “the personal chattels of a single individual,” of belonging “heart and soul, body and breeches, to David C. Broderick.” The next morning, Broderick was overheard by a friend of Terry’s saying: “I have said that I considered him the only honest man on the supreme bench, but I now take it all back.” This was the provocation that led Terry to demand satisfaction. The duel was fought, and Broderick mortally wounded. On his death bed, he said: “They killed me because I was opposed to the extension of slavery and the corruption of justice.” Terry was tried and acquitted in Marin County. The duel resulted in post-mortem martyrdom for Broderick, and aroused such a hatred for Terry in San Francisco that he was forced to retire to Stockton.
On Friday, Sept. 16th, ’59, at half-past 9 a.m., Hon. David C. Broderick, Senator of the United States from California, died from the effect of a wound received in a duel, fought with David S. Terry, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California.
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