Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-08-22
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

Union:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington July 2sth, 1855,
Sir Your Communication Of the 10th
ofJune has been received and submitted
to the President Z 81 ~
In reply, he directs nae to say, that ar,
ter due consideration Of the explanations
which you offer in regard to. your pur-
Chases of Kansas haIf>breed lands. and
the fact IN the, case reported to him and
communicated 10 you by the Department
OF the Interior, be finds nothing in those
explanations to remove the impressions
whlch-he had spreviously entertained Of
these transactions. a.. :. .r.-..-s
lie directs me further to say, that
your communication is not less unsatis-
factory in what il altogether omits to ex-
plain. The, letter addressed to you by
this department, on the lth ult., distinct
ly mentioned other grave matters Of &C.
cusations of the same class You assume
that when circumstances exist in the con-
duct of a public officer, which require the
question Of dismissal from office to be
considered, tits the duty of the Execu-
tive tomake formal specifications of the
sumption you withhold explanation in re-
gard to matters alluded to, although they
were peculiarly within your own knowl-
edge; and you could not but be well
aware that some Of them, more especial
ly the undertaking of sundry persons,
yourself included, to lay out new cities
on military or other reservations, in the
Territory Of Kansas, were undergoing
official investigation within the Territory.
The lncompleteness of that investigation,
at that time, prevented its being spoken
OF exPllcitly by this depart ment,; but it
was taken for granted, that you would
have cheerfully volunteered explanations
upon this subject, SO far as you were con-
cernet, more particularly, as you had
summoned the Legislative Assembly of
the Territory to meet at one of the places
referred to, denoninated in your procla-
nation " Pawnee City"
l have therefore, by direction of the
President, to notify you that your func-
tons aud authority as Governor of the
Territory of Kansas are hereby terminated.
am, sir, respectfully, your obedient
servant, WILLIAM HUNTER,
Acting Secretary Of State.
Andrew II. Reeder, Esq, Governor Of
the Territory of Kansas.
In commenting on the above, the
Union says:
- The association for the so-called
Pawnee City," to which allusion is
made in the letter of the Acting Secre-
tary of State to Governor Reeder, and
the articles OF association which are Civ
en- above, was an organization. to found
town upon tract of land which lies some
distance inside of the, exterior boundary
OF the military site Of Fort Riley. The
limits of the site as originally declared in
orders from the War Department embra-
ced larger amount of land than the
President deemed necessary for military
purposes, after the extinction of the In
dian title and the reservation was re-
duced-but this "Pawnee City" was in
side OF the reservation thus reduced. 1t
is proper for us to say that for permitting
this encroachment upon the lands of a
military site, and for-com plication in the
acts of association. and for military offence
connected herewith, the commanding
officer OF the post Of Fort Riley, is to be
tried on charges. preferred against him
before court, martial, which has been
ordered to assemble for that purpose.
CARRIER PIGEoNs-MAnv Of the read.