Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-11
The President and Gov. Reeder.
Jurisprudence of The \. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Aug. 4, Is

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Aug 4, 1856.
The readers of IHc Tribune will be interest
ed in any new facts, however inconsiderabe in
their Importance which will throw any light
upon the Presidents disgraceful conduct toward
Governor Reeder and though the following is
no solution of the great query, Why was the
Governor discharged so earnestly repeated
here and echoed everywhere, it shows that
the Governor is not wanting in that ready wit
quite as essential to politicians as logic and
learning
The story goes that after some two or three
| weeks consultation between Gov Reeder and
the President upon the affairs of Kansas, the
nature of which is guessed at whispered here
among the knowing ones but the result of
which certainly was that the President refused
to issue any proclamation, or do any act for
the protection of Kansas the Governor left for
home Meanwhile, the troubles in the Cabinet
increased, and the President, anxious to please
Gen. Davis on the one hand. and afraid of the
North on the other, determined to make another
appeal to Gov. RS magnanimity and sent
confidential agent, usually employed by him on
such occasions, to call on a special and intimate
friend of the Governor, then in the city, who
represented in most lugubrous tones that the
President was exceedingly embarrassed and
perpleXed in regard to Kansas, that it gave
him infinite difficulty and trouble, and that he
really thought Gov. r. ought to relieve him
from his trouble by resgnng the Office.
The friend who perfectly understood whence
this came and what was expected of him, at
once communicated it to the Governor at
Easton, who as promptly replied that if Mr.
Pierce believed in resignation as a cure for
g the difficulties and perplexities of an Ad-
ministration, he might practice it himself but
as for him, (Gov. r., he was no disciple of
the doctrine, and therefore could not be
expected to act upon it." The reply was
rather cool, but not more so than the emperti-
nence of the message deserved, especially when
| it may be inferred that the Governor was not in
a very good humor after discovering by his
two weeks interview that the President was
determined to abandon his people to the tender
mercies of the Missourians.
| In few days after this message was delv-
cred the call upon Gov. Reeder for explanation
of the half-breed land purchase made its ap-
pearance, and the unprecedented coure was
adopted of publishing to the world the accusa-
tion without first hearing the reply
WASHINGTON, August 5, 1855
reference to the dismissal of Gov REEDER, but
there are one or two more of whose authen-
ticity can give you the most positive assur-
ance which yet require to be brought to the
notice of an admiring world -.
No sooner had the Governor communicated
with Mr.. Pierce, after he had arrived in the
Eastern States from Kansas, than the Presi-
dent besought him to resign, in order to relieve
the Chief Magistrate of the Union from the
embarrassment in which he found himself By
way of inducement the President proposed to
confer on Gov. REEDER the appointment of
Commissioner to China, then vacant by the
return of Mr.. McLane. This the Governor
promptly declined
This proffer having thus proved insufficient,
the President made higher bid lie now
said that on condition of REEDER's vacating
the Governorship in Kansas, he ioouM gire tie
place Of Enl6assador to England, from which
Mr. Buchanan was soon to return The
splendor of this proposition was matter to
consider, and after twodays the Governor gave
f! his ultimatam. He offered to resign if the