Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-10


Surely, very blue one. In word, he appoints
man Governor of Kansas who retards, if he
does not altogether prevent, peaceable emigra-
ton with our Stare property to the only Terri
tory where ii is of value TO US, and gives the
South a Southern Governor IN that Territory
achere SIace can necer 90. Call you this back
ing your friends2 Is this the equality guaran.
tied us by the Constitution Such fairness
reminds us of lease drawn by an aequaint-
ance of ours some years since, and the princi-
pie of which we think quite applicable to the
present case. We met our friend, whose name
was Noogens, who stammered slightly, and,
after the usual salutations, we asked him where
he had been riding? He said he had been ito
lease farm to Oldham Pulse" Knowing him
not to be lawyer, we said, "What sort of a lease
could you draw up?" "Never mind, "said he,"
can draw as tight lease as any lawyer in the
county. drew this lease, and it had the 'sa-
sa-said Pulse in it all the time, and never had
the said Noogens in it once" Verify, this
arrangement, this "policy," in the organization
of the Territories, is one that had the said
South in 1T all the time, and not the said North
in it once.
Well, what was the effect of this "poicy''-
we mean its Immediate effects? Why, no
sooner was the intelligence conveyed upon the
lightning's wing Of the contamination of this
| arrangement to the hot-beds of Abolition fam
atheism, than the sinful plot sprung into the
| wicked hearts of New Englanders to get up
"Emigrant Aid Societies. as they were called,
to inundate the Territory of Kansas with a
population who were to bear the germ of their
own unholy purposes into that virgin Territory.
We had yielded them Nebraska without word,
but one would not suffice. Kansas, too, must
be theirs, and these "Emigrant Aid Societies
were to be the means by which the voice of
southern emigrants was to be stifed and un.
needed. A most striking fact too connected with
the raising of these societies, such was their in
tensity of purpose to perpetrate a wrong, that
their characteristic sensibilay to the pocket
nerre, even, was blunted, and they literally de-
pleted their Golfers for the carrying out of their
wicked designs Not only did they do this,
but they did it publicly, and boastingly pro-
claimed their object to be to forestry emigra-
ton from the slave Statesl!l Here, then, at
the outset, we have the seed Of discord sown in
adrance of the emigration to Kansas, and
which was the very natural result of such an
anomalous policy. Here, too, we have not
only that Territory organized against the in
terests of the slave States, but absolutely that
organization backed up as we have shown, by
those devils incarnate of New England; and,
as if these were not enough to run over our cup
of bitterness, we find, as we feared would be
the case, this gubernatorial appointee himself,
giving indisputable evidences of the where
abouts of his affiliations. Complaints of his
official conduct had reached us from many quar-.
tiers, and we apprehended almost civil strife in
consequence thereof. Still we trusted, after
the triumphant election of General Whitfield,
that we might be spared the record of further
discomfort; but with what realization of hope
our readers will see by the infammatory
speech of Governor Reeder, to which we have
referred in the commencement Of this article.
This gentleman returns with the very laudable
purpose of visiting his old home in Easton,
Pennsylvania; where, we are told, he was well
coined most enthusiastically by his former
friends. This is as it should be; and if Gov.
Reeder had, in his reply, confined has remarks
to the deep sensbiity he felt at their cordiality
Of his reception, and to the very fit and appro-
ladr he aJa IL
casion, nothing would have been said; but
when Governor Reeder compromises his dig
nifty as high public functionary, by descending
to low ribaldry and abuse of portion of his
| fellow-citizensin Kansas-when he characterizes
them as "border rufhans, when he makes the
most infammatory appeal to the North to take
| the matter in its own hands-when the pro-
slavery men" as he terms them, are the theme
of his unmeasured vituperation, while the
"Emigrant Aid Society" men get off scot free,
and are treated as immaculate-when, we say,
such speech as this is made in a free State.
by a governor OF a distant territory animal
version is not only justified, but required.
Silence would be criminal. Even the Washing.
ton Union, in publishing Governor Reeder's
reply does not say one word in commenda-
ton of it? 1t was too much even for the
Washington Union's stomach, which has often
been thought to resemble that Of the ostrich.
We said there was bat little difference between
the reports Of Governor Reeder's speech at
Easton, save that the orally reviewed one is
rather more dignifed in its language and cpl.
thets The same spirit is in it throughout.
But the first IS as get uncontradicted 5y Coz.
Reeder or any Of his friends. Even the Ar.
gus, which claims to give it correctly, takes
commendable care to say Governor Reeder
"declned ,criting out his remarks, but repeated
them to US, and we made, at the moment the
| following notes, which ace are satisfied is a
sufficiently close and faithful report Of the sub.
stance Of his original speechp Thus at last,
while the ATqts, mildly enough, It is true. rem.