Kansas weekly herald., 1855-04-27
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Who is Governor Resder and what b
he done for kansas Tezsitory ia aHestion
often asked by the citzens of de TsrritOry;
and TO which no nnswez can S giiysn that
is satisfactory 10 the long neglected pudlie.
who have suffered and with more patience
than could have been expected in people
accustomed to self government and prompt
official action.
{ Who is he an obscure biography re-
spends that there has been for years. past
ina Little or big Town-We know act which
somewhere in some county of. the State
of Pennesylvania. a lawyer by the name Of
A. II. Reeder who was known in the little
circle in which he moved for miles around
him that he had decended from some branch
of the notable family of Hessians who sur
rendred at the battle of Trenton, and find>
ing that the Americans were not canibals
as they had been Taught, forsook their
King and Country and selected homes in
that immediate neighborhood where they
and their descendants have remained In
unobtrusiye insignifcance from that time
until the present: but Andrew having sha-
ken off the wooden shoes of his ancestry
began some years ago to tread the stage of
public life as lawyer. How high his great.
ness may have scared among his neighbors
history does not tell nor had the tales of
gossip sent his name so far towards the
setting sun as the theatre of his present
slothfulness, until the daily journals had
heralded his appointment as governor on
this side of the river and probably it struck
him with delight when first he saw his name
in print as oft ii hapens that some youth
who has been secretary Of a village meeting
beholds with speaking eyes the name Of
Zackeas Jones emblazoned in the country
papers.
What has he done since he has come
among us 2 we might give the answer Of the
dutchman in the Pennsylvania Legislature
when he had returned to his constitu ents !:
as custom is, they called him out to tell the
public what had been done; he answered
them "by shure I cannot speak for oders,
but for my self make tree tollar ever day."
No one can tell what Reeder has been do
ing except he has secured his salary and
a pretty little speck besides.
A Territorial government was organized
in May year ago and Andrew was ap-
pointed governor in June. The public pa
tiently awaited his arrival. He hung around
his house hold, regardless of the wants of
those who looked with anxious hopes for his
arrival, until October, and then he came
but not to share the squatters life and eat
his frugal meals among them. He sought
his home as far remote from all association
with the people as his Territorial borders
would permit and there ensconsed he sat up
on his easy chair all winter. He deigned to
order an election for Delegate to Congress;
but when the people in their majesty repell-
ed the pet whom he had brought from
Pennsylvania to be their Representative,
and sent him back to Uniontown unmerci-
fully beat, he sought to find some reasona-
bic excuse to thwart their wishes and to
Withhold from Whitfed certificate of election,
but, as the story goes-we cannot say how
truly-when interorem hung before his
vision the threatning aspect of cowhide,
he suddenly caved in and done the pen aOiten; !;
then like the polar bear he sunk again into
his slumber, and there he slept until arous-
ed By talesmanic touch of some new spec
ulation. We are not objecting to his spec
ulations; for this was right enough, for Gov
enor or private, we would speculate too had
chances offered, but something else might
have been done to sci in motion gove1,1-
mental action; but patiently he, xated til
opening spring and then he took stiff and
sets ahoat his proclamation. Oh what a
proclamation So signally he'd failed In
last November to carry out the views of
Amos Lawrence and his confederated
friends of whom his excellency was agent
here, that something must be done and that
effectively to abolitionize the land; and
Thayer and the Parson told him that this
could all be done by proclamation and so
he figured out an oath to judes Of election
which should preclude from voting every
emigrant who came from western or from
southern States, but would not reach an cas-
tern or northern man because forsooth they
came SO far to vote and then they voted
just to suit the Governor bat they should