Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-08-04

n Papers Throughout the State will confer a
favor by inserting the above.
THE REMOVAL OF GOV. REEDER.
The telegraph has dispersed Throughout the coun-
try the unweloome but not unexpected intelligence
that the Presiicn, has suecumbed to the elamorous
demands Of Atehison, siringfellow & Co., in the
removal Of Gov. Recler from his Office as chief ex-
o%eutive Of Kansas Territory. The osiensible rsA-
son assigned for his removal Is that the Governor
had spcculated In the Indian Lands within the Ter
ritory-a charge tina, even the westport .Ntrs, a
paper in the interest of Atchison, deemed weak aud
puerile. The real grounds for the Preparation Of
this infamous act are too generally understood to
need elaboration. 1t was no sooner found that the
Governor would no, be used as the supple tool Of
lawlcss marauders, tina, he could no, be eoaxel nor
hribed TO lend the weight Of official sanction to their
proceedings, than his removal was determined up
on. Slavery demanded AMI has obtained the sac
rihce.
We cannot bot regard this act ofexecutive priv
ilege rs eyincing more fully the complete utbseryi-
eney Of the President to the pro-slavery interest
than any that has preceded it. lie was fully aware
that the passage Of the Nobraska-KAnSas hill was
urgcl chiefly on the grounds Of ''squaster soyer-
eighty Its a1vocata c0ntendcd that their ut
most desires would be grAtiiel IL those territories
should be organized in such a manner that their
Inhabitants could shape the institutions under
which they were 10 live. The northern Joughfaees
who ,v,ei fpr the TIN Jusun~i their action On this
ground and on this alone. No sooner, however,
did the settlers Of Kansas make the attempt to
elect such 4 portion Of their rulers az they were,
by their Organic act, empowered to choose, than
they were ouerborne and oAtvo,ci by inyididuAls
from m adjoining state who were not, and never
intended to be, actual settlers. and who had no
further intcrcs, in the ierrit DRY than to carry out
%polluting It's soil With the foulest curse that can be-
fl any country.
In refusing 10 recognise these usurpations Gov.
Reeder dill no more than any honest mau would
have done. In taking his oath Of office he ~plelgcl
hiuself to see the laws faithfully and honestly
administered. lie is not open to the charge Of alb
olitionism. All his aatecedents indicate him to be
a man of conservative views, one who would not
step out Of the line Of safe precedents to curtAil
the power Of slavery; and We think no one can
charge him with the manifestation Of any unseem-
ly desire 70 proven. Ia iasrcz int the ielfilory.-
But he could not SO far degrade himself as to yio-
late his recorded obligation in sanctioning such
usurpations Of power and outrages upon popular
rights, as were perpetrated by the pretended Legis-
lature Of Kansas, and those who had surreptitious-
ly placed them in Office. lie would not he a party to
Il a.. - =. Al. -. ..oIa o.. .u-t -
Of opposition to slavery and to nullify the influence
Of the free state settlers. lie refused 10 be made
the willing instrument Of Atchison and stringfel-
low in their nefarious designs for personal aggran-
dizement. For these omissions and these ~refusals
he has been removed from Office.
Gov. Reeder belongs to a party, and was appoint
ed by a power, with and for which we have no SYM
pathy. In the discharge Of his duties as Governor
of Kansas he may have committed many errors
We think he went too far in granting certificates Of
election TO those members Of the Legislature who
were elected by Missourians at the point of the
bowie knife and the mouth Of the revolver. He
may have been indiscreet in his attempts at land
speculation. But under existing circumstances
neither this nor these can justify his removal in the
minds Of any class ofmen who desire the suprem-
acy Of law and order over malignant passion and
brute force.
The removal Of Gov. Reeder at the present time,
and in view o.. the condition of things in Kansas, Is
an event in which every citizen Of the country has
a deep personal interest, Every principle of self
government has been wantonly and ruthlessly
t~rampled upon by the invaders Of that territory,
and its Governor was regarded as the only existing
obstacle to the full accomplishment of their ne
furious purposes. by this late net Of Franklin
Pierce the President Of the United States has OIL
cially given them his countenAnoe and support
lie has thus done more to weaken the foundations
OF government by law than the more immediate
actors in scene could have effected in a life time
IL there is a still lower depth of infamy than the
one attained by the perpetrators of the Nebraska
swindle its fullest extent must have been reached.
II there is a single sentiment common to the free
men Of the North, ono which they should cling to
with increasing tenaeity, it is unyielding hostility
to the present administration its niders and abet.
tors. This is the truly practical test Of oil efforts
to make Freedom national and Slavery sectional.
Under the circumstances in which the citizens
Of Kansas are placed we cannot but rejoice at the
cheering indications evinced by them in their de-
termination to protect their own rights. The man.
ner in which they will do this Is Swallowed forth in
the letter Of DR., Charles Robinson to the Boston