Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-24
KANSAS.

reservations of Gov. Reeder are in perfect keeping
with the tactics of that party, whose reliance is in
misleading the public BY of repeated falsehoods.
as often refhted, and perfectly well known by the
utterers to be falsehoods
We ask the question-Was not the right to
vote at the late election claimed by the abolition
emgrants, though but day had elapsed since
their arrival, and thus allowed' Was any ques-
ton then made, or Is it nor made as to them,
whether they had come there temporarily to vote
and establish freesoil government, or whether
they were there as permanent settlersi Most of
these went without their families. Why are the
Mssourans alone called to an account, to have
their votes challenged, denied, and denounced as
illegal, when they were there voters under cir
cumstances similar to the Abolition Emigrants,
for whose right to vote no one is allowed to offer
question, although many of them arrived in
Kansas subsequently to the Missourians.
The facts, as we have always supposed them to
be, are simply these, and we ask correction from
any source capable Of giving it automatically, if
we err in any respect
large number of the people of Missouri had
determined to emigrate to Kansas, and were pre-
pairing to go, when they learned the utilization of
Governor Reeder with the anti-slavery party,
and believed that the tendency of his official con-
duct would be to give to them the preponderance
in the election. This, Governor Reeder's own
declarations make apparent, as he objects, not to
the newly arrived emissary of abolition, voting,
but to the newly arrived Missourians only And
it may be asserted as fact undoubted as the sun
at MONDAY, that had the Mssourians voted the
anti-slavery ticket, they never would have re-
ceived the anathemas of Governor Reeder, nor
would his Parthian arrows been shot at them on
his retreat.
This state Of affairs compelled the Missourians
TO hasten their movements-to do as did the
Abolition emssaries-go without their families
TO select locations, to prevent this unnatural
policy of Governor Reeder, and then return to
Missouri for their families, and proceed to their
permanent settlement in Kansas. s
Had not the Missourians the same primo facie
right to vote as the Northern emigrant; 1t is
true "two wrongs do not make right, )" but in
the name all that is fair, Just, aud honorable,
should the enc party committing precisely the
same wrong as the other, not only escape the
couraged and fostered by his official influence and
power, and the other party, abused, outraged, and
circumvented in every way that his ingenuity
could invent Why, it is too simple proposition
to present to our plainest reader. We unhesi-
tatingly and fearlessly assert, that if Governor
Reeder is permitted by the President to return
in his present capacity to Kansas, then the Presi-
dent does in effect, nuliify the intent, spirit,
meaning, strict or literal, of the Nebraska Kan
sas bill. This done, and truly will not one stone
be left upon another, of the harmonious, united
and powerful party which placed Franklin Pierce
at the helm of State. We say to him, as we
have right to say to him, in God name let this
cup pass from US! Virginia appeals to him, APP
peals to him now, haggard and worn as she il
by the most terrific contest that has ever wruna
her loins, TO stand true to her in this frightfu
controversy But il he falters--if he hesitates
when to hesitate even for a moment would los,
all, then we say, the consequences be upon hi
own head. He cannot say re did IT, But W,
h6pe for better things Even the Washingto,
Union-the blessed organ-gives out som,
hopeful strains. We saw an article from III,
Union of the 18th in our recent visit TO Virgin,
which made hearts glad We felt a con
scious pride, in reading il, that il was in "par
our work." indeed, until second psrusal, W,
we were unable to believe it not plagiarism from
our own columns. We have not room for it,
insertion, though il is very like our own thai
il is unnecessary. It absolutely thinks the Mis-
sourians hare been treated badly, that the Emf
grant Aid Society people not immaculate, and
should be held responsible for the excited state Of
feeling in the pro-slavery emigration; it speaks
well and deprecatingy of "cordon" Of free
States around Missouri; and, in word, gives
evidence throughout of returning reason, and we
give il our unaffected greeting. Such eyolutions
we like in neighbor. If all it's tergiversations
were like this-if it would never copy into its
columns such awful freesoi articles as the one 10
which we called the attention Of our readers few
days since, we should get along smoothly to-
gether The article in the Washington Union is
a good article, good an article as we have
ever seen in il, and il would have been perfect
article but that lis love Of Governor Reeder
restraints il from attributng this difficulty in
Kansas to the course he has pursued in his Off
cial capacity. tits, however, a reputable fault,
at least, to adhere TO friend through evil and
through good report, even at the expose Of a
truthful representation of the cause of trouble.
We shall not, therefore, complain too harshly Of
our contemporary for this omission, though we
sincerely deprecate il. We hope, even as far as
the Washington Union goes in its editorial Of the
18th, that 1t is rejecting the opinions Of the Ad-
ninistration upon this subject We believe, after
further investigation and other developments,
il will be constrained to come over entirely to the
view we have taken Of the present controversy in
Kansas
II will be remembered by our readers, that we
never have charged upon Governor Rceder any
thing not strictly pertaining 10 his off sial conduct
nor copied anything from any contemporary Jour
nal rejecting upon his personal affairs. With
them we have nothing to do, unless Il Is authen-
tically shown tina, he has prostituted his Office TO
their improvement. Hence, too, as an earnest of
sincerity and Of our desire not to do injustice,
we copy an editorial disclaimer Of the Washing.
ION Iloson If vesterdav in rpepect a., M w