Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-08

found him in hearty cooperation with tho
Massachusetts Emigration Aid Society They
dropped him as they would a snake, and OPP
posed him IS they would Judas. But the
Richmond Enquirer and its junto cannot or
,oiH not see, what IL plain to all disinterested
men.
After being badly beaten for Congress, Gov
ernor Reeder's candidate left the Territory for
his home in Pennsylvania AS was the case
with many Missourians, he had not removed
his family TO Kansas, though he claimed citi-
zenship.
Some of the Missourians had "staked out
their claims" but, like Governor Reeder's can
didate for Congress, they had not moved their
families; and, therefore, forsooth, they were
not entitled to vote
Some Of Governor Reeder's appointees, as
judges of the last election, are said not to
have reached Kansas, until the day Of the
election, and some Of them not until the
election was overl Who dictated the APP
pointmcnt Of judges of election, who had
not then reached Kansasr Now, If Governor
Reeder is right, in saying that the Missourians
who had not actually moved their families into
Kansas, in March, prior to the election, could
not legally vote, how could he appoint judges
from men not then in Kansas, but who only
reached there in company with the Missourians
just before and upon the day Of the election2
Governor Reeder's anti-slAvery candidate for
Congress was situated precisely as were many
Of the Missourians, and like them, left after
the election, but unlike them he did not go
back and open farm and live upon it-lot he.
We do not undertake to say, nor to init
mate, that the Missourians after stalking out
their claims, and before moving their families
and settled upon the lands they had selected,
had right to vote in Kansas-that is point
on which we pass no opinion, but if they were
all wrong-doers perpetrators Of outrage"
invaders and conquerors" Of our unprotected
people, sohy did Gooernor Recder sanction
the election Of SO many persons who were in
vaders ?" Why did he not Indignantly with
hold his official sanction to the alleged "out-
ragef" How dare he, il an honest man, sol
emily approve transaction, which he now
says trampled under foot the principle Of the
Kansas bill, and the right Of suffragep"
How can he expect, and why does he desire,
Missouri and the South to obey him, and dis
approve transaction, the final results of which
he has, under his official oath, and with his
official signature and seal, approvedf How
dare he come here and ask tho government for
troops to aid him to seize and punish the men
who elected the officers whom he has commits
stoned, as though legally chosen2 Does he
desire to light the flames Of civil war, in case
like this, where rioal parties, with different
principles, have resorted to every means to
acquire the control of Kansas, and where the
Governors party has been simply overpowered
at the pollsP Would he have General Harvey,
at the head OF United States troops, slay the
electors of men who hold the Governors com
missions?
Did Governor Reeder himself discharge his
duty, in giving certificates Of election to men
elected by "inpoders and oonqusrorsi Is
his present object anything more or less than
general row, for the possible benefit of the
administration
But SO 1t is, to retain the cooperation OF
Seward, and the free-soilcrs, and anti-slayery
men, the administration wish to sustain Cover
nor Reeder by some sort of hocus pocus--in
some mode with which the South will not
quarrel. They do not wish to employ General
Harvey, (and it is not quito certain that he
would obey orders, If commanded to 6dyonet
the Missourians,) for they have sense enough to
see that, though they might commence, they
might not control acivil war, and that disunion
might be the immediate consequence.
Even the infatuated Pierce has some mis-
givings on this point What then win the ad-
ministration dor Win they hazard rupture
with the anti-slavery meni VIII they hazard
a rupture with the SOUTH
We opinc that they win sustain Recdcr, and
adopt some means, through the aid of such
presses as the Union and Enquirer to gull
| the South They have blinded the South thus
Gar, and they may perhaps continue to do SO.
Not even the Ohio resolutions Of the State De-
mocratic Convention Of 9Th January last, in
which the administration party there resolved
to ERADICATE SLAVERY" could open their cyes
The double dealing Of the administration on
the Missouri Compromise repeal, did not at
tract their notice
Now We seriously inquire Of virginians,
Why was Forney's plan Of sending Governor
Reeder to Kansas and Governor Burt to Ne.
brasks sdoptedf Why were Mcssrs Hunter,
Mason, Wise, Faulkner, Richie, and other
Virginia politicians who had influence with
the Cabinet silent on that occasionp Why
was not Burt, of South Carolina, sent to Kan
sas, and Reeder, Of Pennsylvania, sent to Ne.
brasksi Because 10 did not accord Nth The
programme Of the anti-slavery allies Of For
ney, Pierce, and Company, pho had reso,ped
TO a6olitionize Kansas Nebraska was safe
Her climate forbade slave labor, and therefore
a stakeholder might be safely sent there; but
Kansas has a climate adapted to slave labor
and therefore Reeder must be sent to Kansas
to carry out the anti-slavery programme fur.
nished to the administration by Seward, Gree.
ley, Giddings, Chase, Sumner, and company
who have now joined the administration In q