The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-08-04
Gov. Reedcr Removed

Gov Reedcr Removed.
The telegraph on Wednesday announced
from Washington that Gov. REEpER, of Kan
sas, had been removed, and JONI l.. DAw-
Son, of Pennsylvania, appointed in his place
The announcement is not unexpected. In
deed, that such step would be taken was
plainly intimated to Gov. Reeder before his
recent return to Kansas from his eastern
visit.
This action on the part of the President
can be regarded as unfortunate only in one
view. 1t will furnish, uniusty we imagine,
fanaticism at the north with another power
flu means to fan the flames of sectional dis
cord and strife; while the south, conceiving
it a triumph on their part may be still more
emboiened in their course of lawlessness
and outrage in Kansas. Although other
abundant and substantial reasons we doubt
not, viii be given for Gov. Reeder's removal
aside from wish to conciliatc either party
liz Kansas, it will be impossible, TO prcu-
diced and inhamed minds, to divest the act
of the appearance of surrender to the mcb
spirit of Missouri.
Yet doubtless much of the force of this
objection is broken by the character of Gov.
Reeder's successor. The slave state men
in Kansas demanded man Of their own-a
r,crc tool whom they could handle at will
Instead Of gratifying them, another man is
appointed from free state, n man in poll.
tics the counterpart Of Gov. Reeder-but a
man Of talents, marked lirmncss and straight
rorwardncss Of character, and of all that sa-
Gacity and iron nerve that constitute the sue
cessiIl statesman. JonN l.. Dawson is not
name to be sneered at as unknown to fame.
As a member Of Congress, the author of the
the Homestead bill and other important
measures, his name has occupied such
prominence as TO bring it at one time con-
spicuously before the country for the Vice
Presidency. 1t is preposterous to suppose
that such man was chosen by the Prcs.
dent to become the instrument or tool ofany
faction in Kansas.
But aside from considerations arising from
the injurious differences the removing of
Gov. Rccder at this time may induce, the
act will be the cause Of little regret to any
one. His career in Kansas has been singu-
larry unfortunate. BY his undisguiscd man.
iiestations of sympathy, at one time, with
the Eastern emigrant MD movements, he had
the misfortune to incur the violent hatred Of
the slave state men in Kansas, while by his
indecision, vascillation, and tamcncss in ref
ercncc to the crtrages accompanying the
election Of the present Kansas legislature,
and his official recognition, and then refusal
to recognize the legality of that body, he has
brought upon him the distrust aAd hatred of
the free state men. We find in almost eve.
ry free soil paper undssemblcd cxpr, ssions
Of this feeling on their part. Take for in.
stance, the following from correspondent
of the Boston A9tertiser:
am sorry to say that many Of our free
state friends are losing confidence in Gov
ernor Recdcr. In the main his course has
, been high.mnded and independent, indcat
ing that he was at heart free state man.
But his message is not satisfactory to us.
He only squints at the daring invasion we
have Just suffered, and then turns truant by
saying it was all incurred or induced by the
abolitionists alone, THIS is impudcnce and
insult combined.
Similar extracts could be multiplied to
several columns. So that the removal of
act to concatc the free state as the slave
state men.
But, doubtless, the gst Of his offence was
in his land spcculations and his refusal to
recognize the legality of the Kansas lcgisla-
ture seems to have been the result only Of
these, as he recognized that body and was
willing to act with them so long as they
were willing to continue their session near
his land purchases. We have conycrscd
with free state men from Kansas who have
been violent in their dcrunciation Of Gov.
Reeder en- account of these operations in
lands, and, indeed, we know of no mode
10y which Governor could render himself
more surely odious than by career of SUCH
spccn'ations, intending to use the power
placed in his hands to promote them.
Upon the whole, We arc not without much
hope Improvement in the affairs of Kansas
the advent of Gov. Dawson. lie will have
most delicate and responsible postion-sur'
rounded with inconceivable difficulties but
as the times are said always to produce the
man for them, we arc not without hope that
Gov. Dawson will be found this man for the
times in Kansas, which Gov. Reeder certain.
ly was not.