The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-16
FEEDERS REMOVAL.

= No intelligent man has any doubt that Gov
! ernor Reeder was removed in order to crafty
the Missouri ruffans, backed by the whole slave
sinterest of the South. His feeble effort to ex-
ecute the laws, and to resist the violent awless-
ness of the negrodrivers, was his undoing. But
6f any doubt it, let them read the following re-
marks from the Richmond Enquirer:
at was due to the people of Kansas that
| Reeder should be removed. The President acted
wisely and Justly in consulting their wishes, by
removing a man who either misunderstood or
grossly disregarded his official rights and du-
| ties. And, moreover, until we see other and
better testimony against Governor Dawson than
what we find in the columns of the Advertiser,
we shall have very good reason to believe that
the appointment of Dawson was as wise and
proper as was the removal of Reeder. Of
course, we would have preferred a Southern
man but we are not afraid to trust Northern
man who 'lost his nomination for Congress
because of 'his vote to repeal the Missouri
Compromise
"By the way, the President seems to have
won the hatred of all the fanatics at the North,
by the irmness with which he has resisted their
vile Vaccinations. His course ought to have
secured for him need Of praise from every
Southern man and every Southern paper. His
approval of the Kansas Nebraska BILL his
enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law in Mas
sachusetts, and, more latterly, his removal of
Reeder from the Governorship of Kansas, prove
his determination impartially and Justly to ad-
minister the laws, and to secure to the South
all that she is entitled to claim under the Con-
| stitution of the country. And yet there are
journals, even in Virginia, which affect to doubt
his soundness ON the Slavery question, and
| which recklessly bestowing upon him abuse
and ridicule. Here, then, we have the singular
spectacle of Southern journals accusing the
President of abolition utilization, while the
Detroit Advertiser, the New York Tribune, and
their adjutors, are damning him for giving
aid and comfort to Slavery and slaveholders!"
The Eoening Star of this city, a semi-oficia
organ, in explaining the removal of Reeder,
said:
"For reasons not to be considered in hasty
paragraph, because they are connected with
every item of the history of the organization
and growth of the Territory of Kansas, a dead
lock has occurred between the representatives
of the people of that Territory and the Govern
! or. The whole Legislative business of the Ter
| ritory had been brought to a standstill."
This outrage upon Justice and Freedom, we
are happy to see, is awakening the most lstless
and phlegmatic of the Northern conservatives to
a sense of injury and insult. Pennsylvania, in
particular, is displaying through the press
lively indignation at the insult offered to herself
through her son. Thanks to the madness and
wickedness of the propagandsts of Slavery,
there is now every reason to believe that the
latent love of Liberty in the sons of the old
Keystone has been aroused. "Whom the
gods mean to destroy, they first make mad" is
heather maxim which we daily see exempli-
fed by the friends of Slavery.
They seem determined to surrender their last
Northern stronghold. Pennsylvania has for
quarter of a century been in close alliance with
the South-with the slave interest; and if any
free State was likely to fall back into line, after
last years protest against the Nebraska bill, it
was that State. But the propagandists would
not permit her to relapse into lethargy. They
contemptuously kick one of her sons out of of.
fee for refusing to be the mere tool of Atchison
and Stringfellow; and they insult the majesty
of the State with an open attempt to introduce
Slavery, in violation of her fundamental laws !!
Is it not clear that there is a Providence in these
events? G.