Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-08-10

Inc removal OF Governor Rccdcr.
About the first of May last, the w. Patriot.
IN an article upon the Kansas outragcs.
made the following oracular announcement.
" We again assure our readers and the
State that if the MissOurians acted Illegally
III this instance, the matter will be attended
to. No wrong will be done the North, no
wrong will be perpctrated upon the south hy
the administration of Franklin Pierce
Some three months and more have clurscd
since then, and "our readers and the state
can now look back and see hor the matter
has been " attended TO- by the Adminstra-
ton Of Frank Pierce
The Missouri ruilians have continued To
carry things with high hand they have
added to their former cnormitics repeated
and gross Uutrages upon the persons and pro-
perty OF the Free State residents Of the terri
tory; Gov. Rccder himself was assaulted by
Stringtellow, the leader of the horde the
legislature, illegally elected, have illegally
ousted from their seats the members legally
elected illegally removed the seat Of the
territorial government in defiance of the
Governor proclamation and have literally
enacted the Missouri Code, recognizing slave
ry, as the law of the territory. All this and
more they have done ,unrehuked hyany sign of
disapproval from the administration. Finally
they have memorialized the President to re-
move the Governor because he stands in their
way And Pierce has rC,n0red linn. He has
done tins on trumped up charge of srccula-
ting IN Indian lands, So transparent and con-
temptlble that it is universally secuted
throughout the land, and pronounced weak
even by the press of the Missouri invaders
Thus has Franklin Pierce attended to-
the matter, and the Patriot, the would be
organ OF the Democracy of Vermont, is the
hrSt Northern paper which we have seen,
which has the brass to Justify the dirty deed
Oicourse the Administration paI ers generally,
will in time have to walk up t. the rack and
swallow the dose, but thus far they have FIR
the most part passed over the act in silent
condemnation. The PARROT approves the re-
moval, praises the doughface who il to sue
coed Reeder, and tells the Country to look
for the speedy dawniug of better state Of
''''''7' ~ 'N'H'"H - bclttI Stdl' al thlOsS
there may be in Kansas , but not we fear, tin
the wrongs committed on the soil Of Kansas
with the approval of the National Admins
tration, have been righted by civil war and
blOodshed
Governor Rccdcr's reply to the charges
against him, which the President did not
wait for, before removing him, appears in the
st. Louis papers. 1t is addressed to the
Secretary of State lie says -
In relation to the first charge. of purchase
of hali-brecd Kansas lands, have h. saw that
hare purchdS6d no such idHdS al 0H With /
others, have agreed to purchase them in .
case the contemplated purchase shall receive |
the sanction and appreciation Of the Prcsi. |
dent aud this, in my opinion, is material |
and substantial difference. Until the prrsi- |
dent, by his APPRECIATION, and the vendors by |
the execution of their deeds, consummate the |
contract, 1t prccludcs us from any interest in :
the land, and even the privilege of entering
upon or possessing it.
And in regard to the second, which is an
that in October, 1854. he. with
others, procured claims to be marked upon
the Kansas half-brccd rcservations-
In reply, | have only to say. that as stated
n IS untrue. In October. ISL. several gentle.
men, including myself, happened to be at the
hou~" ol Mr., Ellison. in "a portion of the ter
Il"ry VITA which We were entirely unac-
Iunlnted, and hal never seen before Being
informed that desirable claims were to be had
IN the vicinity uIon land open to prc-emption,
we requested that he would mark them out
Tor us and knowing that the Kansas half
breed lands were in the vicinity, but utterly
ignorant of their lines, We requested him
carefully to avoid entering upon them, as we