Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-19
Ground and Lofty Tumbling.

Ground and Lofty Tumbling.
We have seen in our day, many splendid
performances in the way of summersets but
We cheerfully award the palm, in this art, to
the Washington Union.
That press has set all competition at def
ance in its late, aye Its very last performance,
and what is very remarkable, the fact was not
previously advertised, nor was II named in the
"bills Of the day." Tho whole audience were
taken by surprise-no ono dreamed Of the
rich treat thus unexpectedly givenl Several
persons simultaneously exclaimed, "WIsE got
that up for our amusement |" Well, it may
be so, we don't know" All we know is, the
thing soas done---the Union turned the most
beautiful-most perfect summerset" ever
witnessed upon any stagel
So much for the views Of our theatrical
critic! We will now give our distant readers
some idea of the matter, in plain and simple
prose,
The whole country has seen and known the
course Of the administration on the Kansas
question. 1t is known, and everywhere I'M
derstood, that Governor Reeder was sent to
Kansas from free State, whilst Governor
Burt was sent to Nebraska from the South
Tho purposes Of the administration in sending
Governor to Kansas from free State are
understood. The efforts made by Governor
Reeder to thwart the slave holding interest Of
the South in Kansas, are notorious and unde-
aiable. Notwithstanding his efforts there
against the South, Legislature has been elect
cd, whose members are Southern in their views
Forneyism was defeated in Kansas, and
Governor Reeder returned to Pennsylvania,
Where he poured out phials of wrath upon
those Southern men who had thwarted his aims
TO abolitionize Kansas.
He came to Washington, as was said and be-
lieved, to obtain military aid, to put down the
Southern men by force Of arms, in Kansas
The Union had published Governor Reeder's
revised" speech at Easton, Pennsylvania, in
which he declared thus:
kansas had been invaded conquered, subju-
gated, by at armed foe from beyond her borders
led on by fanatca spirit trampling under foot the
principle Of tho Kansas BILL and the right of suf-
fage."
That speech was highly infammatory, and
called upon the country to stand by him, and
maintain " the plighted faith Of the nation"
Following this, tho Union, as "by author
ity," endorsed Governor Reeders whole course
of action, thereby duplicating the Mssourians
in the charge made by Reeder, that they had
invaded, conquered, and subjugated Kansas
by an armed force"
Its undeniable that Governor Reeder had
so-opsrated with the Massachusetts, Emil
grant Aid Society,"" in their efforts to over
power the Southern men in Kansas. This
conduct had been the subject OF sore complaint
from Democratic presses at the South, but still
he was endorsed BY the administration. We
had exposed tho treachery Of the administra-
ton towards the South, on the Kansas ques-
ton, not because we caro- a fartbing whether
the people Of Kansas adopt slavery or exclude
It but simply because, wo mean that the Jes-
uitism of tho administration towards the South
shall be known and understood.
We neither advocate nor oppose slavery In
Kansas. Our judgment is, that the citizens Of
the United States, resident in Kansas, have a
right, when they form constitution, to admit
slavery or exclude 1t, as they please. We are
for fair play between the parties. The South
EN- men allege, that Governor Rceder aided
the antislavery men Of the North-that was
unfair and unjust He should have acted with
fairness and impartiality. Roeder then com
plains that Kansas was invaded, conquered,
and subjugated,p by the Southern men; this
10 denied, no proof is exhibited, yet they
too, may have acted rsshly On this point We
have passed no opinion. But we repeat, thai
Governor Rseder rds endorsed BY the admin.
isfrution fully and entirely.
His charges against the Southern mon In
Kansas, were virtually endorsed, by their pub.
licstion In the Washington Union, and the al.
most contemporaneous approval Of Governor
Reeder, by that official mouth-piece Of the
administration Such was the construction
put upon the editorials Of tho Union, by the
whole South. What said the Democratic pa.
pers Of the South to the Unions endorsement,
Of Governor Recder Read tho following
whitening, scorching, and wcll-merited rebuks
Of the Unions treachery to the South, (Which
II pretends TO sustain,) from the Richmond
virginia. Examiner. Speaking Of the Wash.
ington Union il said:
"This journal Is artfully and laboriously extenu
sting the conduct Of that official land Spectator,
abolition emisssry, and expelled Ex-Governor
Rseder, late Of Kansas Il IL lachrymosely telling
the South what stout Polk, Dallas, and Cas- man,
what fierce fugitive slave law champion, what Z
saupch anti-Wilmot provisoist and Ksnsss-Ne-
braskaite this Reeder was-before he went to
Kansas, and before he became interested In land
specuations with abolition emigration aid societies.
The Union makes bold TO declare that this ex-ofii-
cial, who Hed from Kansas at the sight Of hempen
twigs in the hats Of her brave settlers, has not
fr moment diverged from the plain straghtfor-
ward path Of duty in a single one Of his Land
speculations, or vile outrages upon the elective
franchise. The Union would fain seduce Virgins
newspapers TO join it In this defence Of Reeder,
this alliance with Greeley and Garrison aid societies.
and this covert denunciation Of brave southern
settlers, in Kansas. The attempt Is vain and idle.
Those Virginia journals which would join in the
base alliance dare not and those which dare would
not
"The South well understands the Washington
Union. Out Of l42 members already elected 70
Ala nert Uo,,as of ReDreaon tetives from the North