Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-20
Anti-Forneyism in Kansas.

For Attorney GeneraL-J0HN M. PATTON.
Election, 4th Thursday In May
Anti-Forneyism In Kansas.
The Baltimore Sun Of this morning contains
some extracts from the "Squatter Sovereign" a
paper published in Kansas Territory, to wit:
"If the feeling against the Governor is not soon
lulled, the storm win raise to such pitch that a
Vacancy in the gubernatorial chair of Kansas will
be the result"
"There Is a feeling raising in the Territory
against the Governor, that only his absence will
prevent general outbreak. Revolution Is In every
mouth aud If the President still persists in forcing
Reeder upon u.s. God only knows what the conse-
queices will be- We hope, we pray, that we will
be spared the necessity of such desperate measures
but, il we are left the alternative of living under
despotic government, or of choosing more hon
orable mode Of freeing ourselves, we are plain to
admit that WE shall choose the latter course. In
the language of Patrick Henry Give US liberty,
or give us death"
When Mr.. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, the
friend, eulogist, and satellite of Colonel John
w. Forney, was appointed Governor Of Kan
sas, (the more southern Of the two Territories
organized by an act Of Congress some months
ago. whilst Mr.. Burt, Of South Carolina, was
appointed Governor Of Nebraska, the more
northern Territory Of the two, not a few men
aoondered why a southern man had not been
selected for Kansas, and northern man for
Nebraskap
The secret Of Mr.. Reeder's appointment TO
Kansas, was suspected at the time by few
politicians, and if we remember rightly, the
Washington Sentinel openly condemned the
appointed of Mr.. Reeder, as unfair and unjust
to the South. But we are not aware that the
Richmond Enquirer, or any other administra-
ton press, at the South, raised its warning
voice, or made any efforts to secure the selec-
ton Of man for Governor of Kansas, who
would not use his power and influence, to
thwart the South, in the effort to equalize po-
litical power between the North and South, by
making slave State of Kansas. Colonel For
ney was permitted, by such assumed guardians
of Southern institutions as the Richmond En-
quirer and Washington Union, to pave the
way, for the introduction Of free State, on
the western border Of Missouri, thus encom-
passing her on three sides, and not only rem
dering slave property in Missouri insecure, but
giving to the North q more decided preponder-
ance Of political power, in the Union.
1t does not diminish the responsibility Of
these assumed guardians of the South, for such
an appointment, that Governor Reeder was him
solfthwarted in his efforts to carry out the views
of the administration, by defeating the efforts
Of General Atchison, and other southern men,
to make Kansas slave Territory on the con-
trary, their responsibility is increased by the
circumstances, that their efforts were in direct
opposition to the wishes Of the people Of the
Territory, as manifested at the late elections
there.
We are not surprised at the feeling exhibited
in the extracts above quoted from Kansas pa
per, and we would fain hope the President
would so far override Colonel Forney, as to
remove Governor Reeder, and put an end to
the excitement, which his conduct has created
This, it is true, would be harsh towards Gov
ernor Reeder, who has only obsyed has instruc-
tions; but precedents are not wanting, where
public officers, who had done as they were
hidden, have been made scape-goats for the
sins Of their unprincipled masters. This ad-
ministration is familiar with the doctrine of
political necessity" and not over scrupulous
as to the adoption of means, by which they
may transfer the odium, which their own follies
and blunders have created, to the instruments
they had used in their recklessness. Governor
Reeder, therefore, will doubtless be sacrificed,
though, in truth, the administration itself is
Justly responsible for his course.
The South must be appeased in this matter,
and we take it for granted that Col. Forney
will not consent that the President shall throw
the censure upon him, but would insist that a
thousand friends should be decapitated, rather
than his own immaculate SELF should bear the
odium, Of the coalition between the administra-
ton and Seward, Greeley, and the New England
anti-slavery men.
The extracts above quoted, sustain the views
we presented some few days since, on the
Kansas question, in which wo demonstrated,
that Governor Reeder had been sent to Kansas,
to thwart southern men in that Territory, and
that it was part Of the plan Of this Janus-faced
administration, to gull the South by professions,
and aid the North by its acts.
Instances are not rare 10 which this purpose
has been manifested. This administration de-
nounced and Frustrated the gallant supporter
of Southern Constitutional rights, Daniel S.
Dickinson. 1t turned out that worthy and
patriotic man, Greene 9. Bronson, who was firm
and true TO the constitution. The South never
had, in the North, any truer friends than
these. II professed to make the issue in the
late elections, Of " Nebraska" or " Anti-Ns-
5raska bill" and yet in General Pierces own
State, tuo Of the three candidates Of the admin
istration party for Congress, had voted against
the Nebraska bill, and were pledged to its re-
peal, il elected In the Norfolk (ya.) district,
the administration candidate for Congress, is a
man who voted and spoke against the Nebras-
ka bill
In the Northwest, the Douglases, ct id omne
genus, maintained before the people, what Pres