The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-09

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terrible mistake because he said in the same message
that he did not recognise them LesialAture The
Legislature however, went without him, and enacted
code of laws for the Territory including several very
strong guards the protection OF slave property Judge
Iecompte Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court and his
associates gave opinion saying that the acts Of the
legislature in their opinion legal The free State
party however, refused acknowledge the authority OF
the Legislature.
REMOVAL OF REEDER.
ON the 10Th of July Governor Reedsr removed rom
the government Of Kansas, and Secretary Woodson
reirned in his stead the time being Reeder had been
unable to restore peace in the Territory. During the
early he home to Easton Pennsylvania and
made an njudcious speech Kansas affairs and called
Mr. stripgfellow bad Mr.. Stringfeliow male
row about it, and knocked the Governor down in the 60
vernment house. The alleged Of Reeders removal
that he and Judge Johnston Judge Emors and Mr..
Isascs Omitted states Attorney had been specializing in
Indian reserved lands contrary to the acts Of
Congress- and the regulations of the department.
Al we have stated above, nearly al the good land
in Kansas the Indian reserves, and these gentle
mon probably wanted = good dip into it, We are told
that Gov Ree.er did, through interpreters tell tho half
breed Kaws that he the only who was author
;xed 10 purchase their lands. From time immemoral
individual reservations to half breeds, and also to In
dsps have been purchased 10y the whites, which pur
chsses we're sanctioned by the Indian Department. and
the purchasers received patents for the whom
sonable compensation had been paid.
Thousa nds Of in Illinois and indiana, under
high cultivation, were purchased. The twenty-five
sections of the Kaw half breeds lying upon the Kan
sas river 40 miles from its junction with the Mis-
souri, river Government objected to Reeders specu-
lang exclusively in these lands and using his Official
position to get them. They removed him and Judge FL
more. might be well enough to inquire why the heads
Of Johnston and Isaacs not also cut off. Judge
E1more intends to contest the question Of whether
not the President has power ia remove him. and az 1t has
been several times before he federal courts ought be
settled in way
Mr.. J. L. Dawson, OF Pennsylvania, WAS appointed to
succeed Mr. Reeder, but he respectfully declined the
dangerous honor He wrote very sensible letter. giving
much wholeson advice to all parties. OF COURSE none
Of them paid the slightest attention to It.
ANOTHER APP0INTMENT-G0V SHANNON.
The President then appointed wills IN shannon Of Ohio,
as Reedes's successor. Mr. Shannon was national
democrat and was Governor Of Ohio in 1912, and
Minister TO Mexico. He sat in the Thirty third Con-
gress and voted for the Nebraska-Kansas bill He
copied the appointment and arrived in Kansas early In
August. He received mt Westport Missouri mile
from the Kansas line and made speech wherein he said
he In favcr of slavery Kansas He also evidently
thought himself in the la named Territory, be said to
the people that he endorsed their Legislature.