Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-17
rARY OF STATE TO GOV. REEDER.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, July %, 1856.


Washington, July %, 1855.
ST: Your communication of the 26th of June has
heen received and submitted to the President.
In reply, ne directs me to say that, after due CON-
sideration OF the explanations which you offer in
gard to your purchase of Kansas half breed lands
and the last in the reported to him, and com.
munlcated to you by the Department of the Interior,
oe hnds nothing in those explanations to remove the
impressions which he had previously entertained IF
the character of these transac tions
He directs me further to say. that your communica-
ton is not ess unsatisfactory in what il altogether
omts TO explain The letter addressed to you By this
department. the 1th ultimo, distinctly mentioned
other grave matters of accusation of the same class
duct of public officer, which require the question
OF his dismissal from Office 10 be considered, It is the
duty OF the Executive 10 make formal specifications
OF charge; and upon ths erroneous presumption you
withhold explanation in regard to the matters allud
ed to, although they were peculiarly within your
knowledge; and you couli not but be well aware
that some of them, more especially the undertaking
nf sundry persons yourself included to lay out new
cities on military other reservations, in the Terri
toro OF Kansas were undergoing official investigation
within that Territory. The incompleteness of that
investigation, at that time prevented its being spoken
OF explicitly by this department. but ii was taken for
granted that you would have cheerfully volunteered
explanations upon this subject, far as you were
the Legislative Assembly of the Territory to meet at
one of the places referred to- denomi ated in your
proclamation Pawnee City"
have therefore, by the direction of the President
to notify you that your functions and authority as
Governor of the Territory Of Kansas are hereby ter.
minated.
am, sir, respectfully, your obedent servant,
WILLIAM HUNTER,
Acting Secretary of State.
Andrew H. Reeder, Esq,
Governor of the Territory of Kansas.
In commenting on the above, the Union says:
The association for the so-called Pawnee City,,
to which aluson is made in the letter of the Acting
Secretary of State to Gov Reeder and the articles of
association of which are given above, was an organ
ization to found town upon tract of land which
lies some distance inside of the exterior boundary of
the military site of Fort Riley. The limits of the
site as originally declared in orders from the War De.
partment embraced larger amount of land than the
President deemed necessary for military purposes af-
ter the extinction of the Indian title and the reser-
walton was reduced-but this Pawnee City was in.
side OF the reservation thus reduced 1t is proper for
TO say that for permitting this encroachment upon
The lands of military site, and for complication in
the acts Of the association and for military o4nces
connected herewith the commanding officer of the
post OF Fort Riley is to be tried, charges preferred
against him before court martial which has been
ordered to assemble for that purpose"