Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-08-09
Removal Of Governor Reeder.
Howling Of the Enemy.

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All'opposed TO the fusion party, must be pre-
pared to hear a great howl from the dem.
agogues in The abolition camp in consequence
ofthe removal Of Gov REKDER. The grandeur
6t grief which will be manifested by the polit
ical priests who have entered upon the field Of
politics, will be sufficiently imposing. Anath
emas will be heaped upon the President by
those who would, for partizan purposes retain
N Office, your Galphins, your GARDENERS, your
Bank defaulters, your Rail Road rascals, and
your Land plunderers. Whoever can be in.
strnmental in keeping up sectional strife, and
In preciptating a dissolution of the Union,
must be retained in office. And if the Presi-
dent removes snch individuals. he is denounced
as pro-slavery man If the information
which comes through the press is correct, Gov.
Reeder, has been involved in :" land specula-
tions'' with half breed Indians contrary to law
and the regulations Of the Department In
this respect be has certainly shown longing
for .. land plumber" which would do credit TO
Morrll-ite in our own State. When called
upon for an explanation, he replies by special
pleading. by lawyer-like evasions and by dis
respectful accusations. Under such circum-
stances his relations to the administration could
not continue. The same high courage in
FRANKLIN PIERCE, which shrank not from du-
ty, and which feared not high position, the
Jacksonville qualities of the President, mani
tested in setting aside Atwood who was guilty
of prevarication, and who put himself into the
hands of ultra aboliiionisis, has prompted the
President to act in the case of REEDER. The
same bold determination which led TO the re-
moval of the Collector Of New York, who re-
fused TO carry out the Presidents policy of har-
monizing the party, has bourne the President
through The present crisis. sal .ia ~
That Gov. REEDER has been in6iscreet in The
management of matters in Kansas, and placed
himself legally ia nntenable positions there can
be no doubt, and we regret that he has thus
compromised himself, because we have hi,her-
TO had great respect for him. We approve the
popular sovereignty doctrine of Gov. r. and of
all he SAYS in favor of carrying that doctrine
out in lis purity, and we look upon any inter-
ference from any Stale TO control the destinies
of Kansas as an outrage. In all this we agree
with Gov. r. These questions are not invol-
we'd in the removal, but the grave question Of
violations Of law, and the regulations of the
Department. Hon. ]. l.. DAWSON of Pennsyl-
vauia, gentleman of high character, of great
ability, FREE STATE MAN, who is appointed
by the President, will be far more efficient in
Scouting ~ tnt people vi hdnSdS, tnelr right
of popular sovereignty, (Which all concur in
saying will make that Territory free) than his
predecessor could be, after having become com
promised by extraordinary maIfeasance in office.
Again, we say, the abolitionists will howl at
this removal, and will consider it Godsend,
for purposes of political capital But the peo-
pie will not fail to see that an administration
which does not mean 10 sink down into the
slough of Galphinsm could not retain Gov
Reeder in office, however excellent his previ-
Gus character had been-and if the President
had retained him these very abolitionists would
have been the first TO denounca him as an ac-
complete of high handed fraud. The retention
of Reeder would have been one of their chief
accusations ia the next Presidential election
1t would have been branded as Gardiner fraud.
1t is utterly false that the President desires by
the appointment of Mr.. Dawson to propagate
slavery in Kansas-he only desires to have
public affairs honestly administered and to leave
that matter with the people of Kansas-and
there it will be left in the end, let the result be
what it will, in spite of the interference from
Missouri or Massachusetts.-Fr Free Press.