Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-15
BraeemHe, august 6, 1855.
From the Kansas Herald of Freedom. July 81 !
The Pretext of Readers PemnvaI

1t is reported hat Gov. Reeder, on ar
irving at the Shawnee Nilsson on Monday
last. found a letter from Secretary Mar
cy, informing him that he was suspend.
ed. A meaner act, W. conceiv , was
never contaminated by any Administia-
ton. Frank Pierce, for that act, de-
serves the d%etestation of every American
citizen Without m~anliness 10 ascribe
his motive TO its real cause, he pretends
it was done for the Governors specula-
tons in the Kaw lands.
What are the facts in regard to those
lands? A number of half breed Indi-
ans each purchased of Government a
gu nifty of public domain to the amount
Of one mile square, and located it on the
north side of the Kansas river, lying be-
tween the Delaware lands on the East,
and the Pottawatomie lands on the West,
making a strip one mile wide and thirty
miles long. North Of this strip was the
prettiest prairie in Kansas. and all open
TO settlement, but there was no way to
get tt the river, because the lands of the
Kaw Indians interviewed. Governor
Reeder, Judges Johnson and Elmore,
and District Attorney Isaacs saw this,
and they conceived the propriety Of buy
ing up a few sections, no doubt contem-
plating they would ultimately be greatly
enhanced in value.
Accordingly they entered into an ar
rangement with the Indians, by which it
was agreed to convey certain lands to
the above parties for three dollars an
acre, as soOn as the bargain should be
sanctioned by the Indian Agent, and rat
flied by the President. Until this was
done it was no contract. The Indian
Agent has never sanctioned the agree
ment, neither has it been submitted to
the President for his approval-conse-
quently no harm has or can accrue TO
any one in consequence of the negotia-
tons which passed between Governor
Reeder and his friends on the one hand,
and the Indians on the other.
That Kansas would have been a real
G liner by the arrangement, no n at
all acquainted with the condition of things
will doubt for a moment. The lands all
around there can be bought from the
Government for 1875 an acre, but be-
cause persons could not reach the river
with their produce, they have been in
duced 10 settle in other localities We
were over these lands a few weeks ago.
and found them as valuable as any in
the territory, and yet they are entirely
passed by, for the very good reason that
there is no certainly Of their having a
market in the future on the river.
The facts in relation to these lands
had been a public matter for nine months,
and the subject of newspaper criticism
during all that period.
The Governor visited Washington,
ard was in consultation with the Presi-
dent and heads of the departments for
three weeks. Not a word was whisper
ed TO Governor Reeder about his offend
ing. The Governor gets ready to return
to the scene of his labor, but at the un-
usual hour of neal midnight, a letter is
put into his hands, stating that certain
explanations are wanted. The Cover
nor replies hastily, and promises a stale
ment in full on his arrival in Kansas. A
prominent member of the Cabinet, in
the meantime, away down in Mississippi, !
charges Gov. Reeder with being an Alb
~olitionist, and intimates hat he is prob
ably removed for that cause.