Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-08-15

Iuench. Holy Father, byifty power,
By love and law, with spring and we'll,
With stream and cistern, food and shower,
In mercy quench this Ere Of hell.
GOVERNOR REEDERs REMOVAL.
The President has seen 6t to give the public
no Official explanation Of his motives fot the
removal of Governor Reeder, but we find ~ the
Washington Star, paper which always affects
10 speak his sentiments, the following reasons
suggested for the step: s@f
we regret the exigency that has seemed 10
President Pierce to demand the removal Of
Governor Reeder, although we are free 70 say
that we do not perccvewhat OF ier reason could
have been taken. For reasons not to be consld.
cred in hasty parsg aph, because they are con-
nected with every item OF the history Of the or
ganizaticn and growth Of the territory OF Kan
sas, deadlock has occurred between the rep
rs.entatves Of the people and the Governor.--
The whole legislative business Of the territory
has been brought to a stand still'
1T must be apparent from this fact alone that
the day of Gov. RI eder's ~ cuilness to the tei.
rltory of Kansa, passed away with the occur.
ing of duty TO that young and growing comm-
nifty, would thus seem to demand that trial be
made Of d new man IN the Office OF governor,
of one known to the country as asolnd states
man, and as one devoted TO the constitutional
right of all and every section Of tho, Unon--
been done by the appointment Of General
Dawson rsrg IsfE tS EEG3 &EB .Eft0
Let US state this case in another FORM n "A
band OF thieves visit q plantation OF Uncle
Sans ore dark night and attempt to plumber
it. They encounter at TIE gate one Of Uncle
Sans servants, who rcsists them; they strug
| & c; the servant is not strong enough 10 take
| tn. in to Jail without help, and the thieves are
not strong enough to prosecute Their .iilainy
| VIII lie the servant resisls them. The help does
not come, and they are b. ought to desd-rock.
What should we think Of the master who should
dismiss that servant, and say his usefulness
was gone, because lie was unable to g,t aioug
harm noniously with those ~ho were trying to
rob The place. We should say tha' such nas-
ter is NOT worthy OF having faithful servant,
and We should naturally suspect that he. had
some unex pla ned completely with the robbers
which endered faithful servant rather stnr.-
| bling block than otherwise to his purposes
President p cree has shown himself 10 be
precisely such master. if the motives for his
removal Of Reeder are, as they may be prrsum'd
| to have been, correctly assigned by the STAR
Governor Reeder found the people whom la
was sent out to govern, invaded by lswless
band Of alien marauders; he resisted them with
such weapons as the constitution and the law
had placed in his hands, and no othfr; his re.
sstance brought upon him hehost,lity Of those,
aud those only, whose piratical schemes lic
| foled they memorialized the Pres dent 10 re-
move him, and the President has removed him.
BY that act he has given countcnance and en-
couragement to 4 tose who have openly defed
the officers and the laws Of the Federal govern.
men'; by that act he has takea sides with law
lessness and violence against the people Of X an
sas and the public peace; by that act he has
made his administration responsible for the
composition Of the so called Kansas legislature
and the ontrages which prevented the citizens
of that territory from participating IN its elec-
ton; by that act he has made himself a party
to the schemes Of Atchinson and Stringfellow,
and convicted himself and his administration of
a tetcrmnatio from the beginning 10 make
Kansas a slave state We do not see how it -
possible to put a moro favorsble construction
upon the Presidents conduct. Indeed, his own
political friends do not generally at,emp, IL.
It has been pretended that Reeder has been
removed for speculating in lands This We nn-
dertake 10 say is not so. Tho President dare
not assign such resson. The character Of
Gov. Reeder's land specnlations were as well
known in Washington eighteen monts ago, as
Q now Every officer sent on thr frontier Was
expected to. spec ulie; indeed, the person whom
the President has chosen to- succeed Governor
= Reeder is a near kin. man and the favorite se-
. lection Of one who made the whole. OF his i'm.
!. mense fortune by specializing in lands while
+ he was territorial Governor Szas ago aSke1
9 Without intending to recognise the sproprie'y
: Of such proceedings in the general, or in Gov
;, Reeder's case in particular, we have no 'hesits
tion in expressing the conviction that there II
nothing in his case which justifes the admins
: tration in making him a special exception "a
) tho general leniency extended to such offences
Nor indeed do the journals most accustonef
:, to speak the views Of the administration prssum
= to suggest any such motive for the sacrifice o
!. the late Governor Of Kansas. We haye give
above, the reason, and the only reason, which
II any Of the official journals have presumed 10 OF
fer for this step, and i correctly assigned iti
It only more shonorabls to the Admipistratio
than the removal itself.-N, Y. Eve. Post.
4 IL A Washington letter writer sstatc
. thatit was not till the ;,]th;ult, after, til
removal of Reeder had been announced
ut that the President and secretary ofthei il
IN terror decided against the validity Of th
: proposed purchase Of Kansas lands By I'll
i Kansas officials, aud the contracts we're, a
III cordingly cancelled. The crime forwhic
n Reeder was decapitated seems therefore
MT be the reference Of the question iwheth'
he he might buy the lands to the executiv
TIE affair looks worse with every new d
70 veloplnent. 1t will turn out one Of Il
,s of blackest pages in the history Of a CORFU
;ts administration. $50
OF EIThe Lowell Courier says viii
Gov. Reeder was in Washington, Ia
y, spring, one Of the services Of the Preside
M ~. approached the Governor, and desired h
ms to resign, remarking that it would be
ge. great relief to the administration il
lis would do so, as Gov. r. was very uDpol
de, lar with many members Of the Democra
,cf- party. Gov. Reeder modestly limited Il
Use he should do no such thing, but wasres
to receive the stroke, of the guillotine
, any time. eff Mr.. Pierce desires TO rest
:a, "a, harmony to the Democratic ranks,
fn, fad marked the Governor, "let ,nIM try the
his pertinent of resigning, and see what
effect will be. .gHa b iaszass35rs
n "Pompey, why is journey round
!, world like cats tail?'' ssWeil, Ia
~. azactly see any semblance twixt the two
,u.r , ses'' "Well den, spec Pll have to
M, ~ you-bekase it am fur to the end OF IL!
COW swell, den, spose BY some onaccount
tart. = get s'sged J" sWhy, ndat ease, il woll
'aI.- Be SO fur 4
for CASApIAs DaAxATIcs.- Scene Wind
de Time-Night. ss Il ! :,
his Cesar say, Pomp, Use got bran.
fell cunnigdrum -d'yc give it up? sF'sss
Igled Pompey-Weil den Emperor, dis nj
ID can't tell whether he does or not, III
/ The knows what il is; sing il out a. n -,
They Cesar-We,l, Pomp, de matter OBJ d,
Of 9 slness is just here; wig is slavery. IN
until States on its last legs?
Pompey-Igib dst up sure. * Z
Casar-Cause its 'bliged to buy . !
lrm- tolean on.
nd II Both Yah. vahl vah, "a, h,s, :.
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