Kansas weekly herald., 1854-10-13

eu Wnen trdmpllnS f0oWA the negtleS anu
thistles of Kansas and preparing il for its
high destiny.
To which GooeTnor Reeder replied:
Il thank you, Sir, and those whom you.
represent on this occasion for the cordial
manner in which you have welcomed me
to your Territory and for the encomiums
which you have so eloquently hestowed--
encomiums which must be allowed to say
are attributable more to your own courtesy
and Partially, than to any merits of mine.
Coming, as I do come, into position of
high and solemn responsibility IN a strange
land, to exercise most important functions
among men whol as yet know me not,
you may well imagine that am cheeredf
and encouraged by the foreshadowing of
confidence and kindness exhibited IN this
our first interview. am sensible of the.
difficulties that may beset my official careers
and must rely on the friendship and kind
ly feeling which you have pfofessed, for in--
diligence to my deficiencies. But whilst I
shall now claim in advance your leniency
for my inexperience Of your country, and
your people, for my shortcomings in wisdom
and ability, I claim no margin and ask for
no indulgence, in respect to the earnestness
and sincerity of my efforts, to make. the
great good of the Territory, and the ad-
vancement of its substantial prosperity and
welfare, the chief end of my official action.
1t shall be my pride and pleasure, always to
keep in view, that single end, despite all
sinister considerations, or adverse circum-
stances. Our Territory is indeed land of
great interest, and of glorious promise, and
now frontier country demanding
at our hands strong continued effort and no
small privation yet we are cheered on by the
conviction, that another frontier is approach
ing us from the Pacific, and that when the
inevitable destiny of this Union shall have
filed up its limits with civilized population
and thrifty enterprise, Kansas will be terri
torially the very heart of the Republic,
and in the highway of its trade. Much
of its progress, its prosperity and its fu-
ture destiny, will depend upon the impress
that we shall make upon its early develope-
ments. That we shall have difficulties to
meet and overcome, varied in their charac-
ter, and formidable in their number and ex-
tent, it were worse than folly to deny and
conceal. Whatever they may be, however,
there is no fear that they cannot all be soly-
ed by prudent care-by tolerance and char
ity for difference of opinion among our
selves-by calm but unquailing moral cour-
age in asserting our own rights of action or
opinion by the most scrupulous care
to avoid encroachment on the rights of 9TH
ers. First of all Kansas must, and with
Gods help it shall be, country of law and
order. No man must be allowed to cast
contempt upon the law,-to unsettle the
foundations of society, to mar our future
destinies,-to cause us to be Stunned and
avoided by good citizens, and to turn US
upon the retrograde path toward barbarism,
by substituting his own unbridled passions
for the administration of justice, and by re-
dressing his real and imaginary wrongs by
the red and cowardly hand of assassination,
or the rufianism of the outlaw. So far as
it shall come within my province to deal
with this spirit, I pledge you that / will
crush it out, or sacrifice myself In the eff
fort. Every one of our millious of fellow
citizens who may choose to exercise his un-
questionable right to plant himself, his fam
lily and his property on our soil, to swell its
strength, and develope its resources, must
feel that the broad agis of the law shelters
him and his from outrage, and that its sword
is keen and ready to punish him sunmarily
and unfailingly, for outrage Of the rights Of
others. We must too do our duty in ce-
menting and preserving our glorious Union,
by the strictest adherence to our Constitu-
tional and legal obligations, and aconstan'
readiness to aid our fellow-cifizens of other
States, In securing to them all the rights
which that Constitution and those laws
have sacredly guaranteed to them for the
management of their own affairs, whilst al
the same time we must with the most Wig,
orous and determined firmness, preserve
unimpaired and unquestioned, tosevery cit
izen of our Territory, freedom of opinion II
the regulation of our own. The principle
of the Bill for erecting our Territory. / neet
scarcely tell You. has my hearty approval
Fiercely as it has been assailed, it has it
foundation deep in the doctrine of true re