Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-10
"GovERNoR REEDER AT HOMIE.

DuHudy introduces 10 It's readers the : futl and
highly interesting account from the Easton
pennsylvania Argus of Governor Reeder's re-
cent visit to his former home" and undertakes
to give true and genuine report of" Governor
Reeder's Reply" 1t is well to endeavor to
improve the one that has been going the rounds
Of all the presses, without contradiction, for
the last fortnight, and we would have been
much gratifed if that improvement were more
satisfactory. The difference between tweedle
dunn and tweedle dee, however, is just the diff
ference between the first report Of "Governor
Reeder's reply" and his orally reviewed one by
the Easton Argus. We transfer to our columns
the whole article from the Washington Union,
proposing to show that the Argus has but
gilded the pill, by which the people have already
been nauseated, and which will recall the
famous Captain Tobins story of the chicken
which chirped at the swallowed egg" Faith,
and my little fellow, you spake too late.'
We propose to begin at the beginning of
this history of the appointments made in the
two Territories of Nebraska and Kansas. We
do so, first, to show, as we do by our article,
republished from the Sentinel of the oath of
June last, in to-day's issue, that we temporarily
demonstrated in advance, against the policy of
the Administration, in giving to the Territory
not adapted by climate, soil or geographical
position, to slavery, Stare State Gocernor, and
to the Territory suited to Southern products
and slave labor, a free State Gorenor. We
could see no good reason for this policy. We
believed it to be injudicious, and not in conso-
nance with the practical carrying out of the
principles of the Nebraska Kansas BILL
Second, that when we found the appoint
ments were irrevocably made according to this
programme, we, in good temper, as indicated in
our article of the I'd of July last, unpublished
to-day acqulesced, and hoped that all things
would turn out /" for the best" And, thirdly
to show how subsequent occurrences have en-
tirely fulfilled our prediction, and realized too
fully our sincere forebodings.
1t is because we feel that the condition of
things in Kansas is likely to produce the
greatest excitement, and that it is to be most
vexed, and prolonged controversy, fraught with
the greatest mischief, not only to the Territory
itself, but to the whole Union, that we take the
pains to lay the whole subject fairly and fully
before our readers.
When the Nebraska and Kansas bill passed
at the last Congress, there were two Territorial
Governments to be organized. Under the
constitutional provision, the President of the
United States had the power, by and with the
advice and consent Of the Senate, to make the
appointments to the several Offices designated
in the BILL That bill contained no feature IN
it, that either favored the introduction or inhi-
btion of slavery into either of these Territories.
1t was left clearly to the people Of the respec-
tive Territories, TO have slavery, or not as they
chose. In one Of these Territories, Nebraska,
however, twas universally conceded that slavery
never would go, because the climate, soil, and
neighborhood, all we're uninvting to this species
of labor. The other Of these Territories,
Kansas, on the contrary, had every induce
ment for the profitable employment of slaves
Nor was the profitable consideration the only
or even the most important one for the estab-
lishment of slavery in Kansas. In these evil
days, when judges are elected from office for
supporting the Constitution, and for enforcing
the laws of our country; and that, too, by grave
Legislature enactment, tits or triAing thing
to have Territory adjacent to one OF our largest
slave holding States and akin in soil, climate,
and all other things to it, filled with Abolition
incendiaries.
Under such circumstances, the President had
to meet the responsibility Of making these ap
pointments. How did he perform this delicate
trust2 Let US suppose man having two es
tates, the one in the purely farming or wheat
growing region in the beautiful Genesee val
ley, and the other, large and fertile cotton
estate in our own sunny south. The former he
cultivates by hired or white labor-the latter
by black or slave labor. He wants manager
for each. What would be thought of the
"policy" Of that man, if he should select for
the cultivation Of his southern plantation a
manager from New York, who would not know
cotton if he we're to see it growing-and to
choose for his Genesee farm an overseer from
South Carolina, whose labor staples, and pro.
ducts, have no resemblance to those Of bis
northern property whatever Would this be
wise, judicious, or saneP It is not, Of course, q
case where any improper or dishonest purposes
could be charged to him, for both are his pro.
perty, and unless he be demented it could not
be accounted for-and if demented, the court
would appoint guardian for him.
Well, Nebraska is the Genesee farm.
Kansas the South Carolina plantation.
The President wants manager (governor)
for each. What does he do7 Why, he selects
for the southern territory gentleman whose
education, sympathies, affiliations, purposes,
are all with the northern free States, and natu-
rally enough, for bis life has been passed
among them. And what is his reason THAT
"he pds a good constitutional national man P''