The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-25
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REMOVAL OF Gov REEDER.-A bloy
which viii recoii with terrible effect ha
been struck by the national administra
ton. Whether il was the impulse of
galvanized imbeciiity, 1l-judging eoun
lseIlors, malice or disappointment, WELT
tie care, 4 gross and fragrant wroa.
has. however. been perpetIaied-a wron:
which ere long win bring shame ant
Ireproach upon those who were its insti
gators and It's doers. The hour ha
passed when a specious tale viii deceiv'
the people. No puerile charge of Ian,
Ispeeulations can buffet an instant agains
the storm of wrath which will be aroused
A high-minded, honorable, fearless an(
determined man has been wantonly ant
blsely stricken down, because he asserted
and would yindicate the rights of free
pmen against a horde of lawless and law
breaking rufians. Because Gov. Reedel
soughtto throw around the ballot-bo,
the shield and the guards which our re
publican laws create and ordain, because
he has had the courage to be just and
manly Executive. regardless of menace:
and even personal violence, he has beer
removed from his position, and another
has been sought out to fill the place he
] has made so honorable. 0stracisrn has
not been an Athenian custom alone, nol
has Aristides been its only victim.
| The consequences ofthe act of Presi-
! dent Pierce can. to some extent, be fore
seen. The same Pennsylvania which SC
cheerfully cast for him her electoral vote,
having faith in the New Hampshire man,
will shrink from him with aversion To
him she looked for hearty approval and
endorsement of the means taken By one
of her sons to secure to the settler the
rights attaching to- jim as an American
citizen. Grievously has she been disap-
pointed, and she viii mourn to think how
her confidence has been misplaced, and
how her trust has been ruthlessly shat
tered. Pennsylvania viii not stand alone
in the rebuke to be uttered around hel
will cluster many of her sister States
until that administration which wa.
borne into power upon the topmost wave
of the popular will, will sink SO low tha
there will be none SO poor to do it rever,
ence. AS its death viii be that of the
suicide. there will neither be the mock
cry. of mourners nor the burlesque of &
funeral. It does seem passing strange
that so far forgetiul of the place of hi;
birth, his youth and his manhood, for
getful of the great free North, 1t was {
foregone conclusion in the mind of the
President that in all defiance of whatev-
er might be the voice of her people, Kan
Sas was TO be doomed to slavery. And
to what other conclusion must We come
The deplorabie scenes Witnessed at every
election district. when members of the
Territorial Legislature were chosen, arc
sadly familiar wherever the expression oi
an unshackled press has been heard The
peaceable citizen was overawed in the
exercise of the most sacred prerogatiye
of freeman, by the presence and most
unlawful interference of armed rufians,
the spawn of an adjoining State. Where
civilization is, that element of political
justice, as enuneiated by Goodwin, is re-
cognned to be truism that ''to endeay-
or to impose our sentiments by force is
the most detestable species of persecu-
| tion." And what other than this were
the higA-handed proceedings of the Mis-
souri, mob They were not content that
those who had alone the right should de-
termine for themselves under the law
their own institutions, but By violence
were sentiments other than their own to
be forced upon the Kansas settlers
Earnestly did the press OF our land in
weigh against an outrage so monstrous,
and burning spirit of indignation was
kindled in the breast of every man whose
sense of Justice was unclouded. And
withal, our President has cast his official
inhuence-and we are gratified that it
has grown so small--with the law de-
fers.
But the voice of the Keystone SAFE
will make itself clearly heard. Blind
giant as she is, her cry win come up
tnFou0n nef eAteHueu UofueFS loF ven
geance. Let him upon whose head it
falls beware And well, too,- does she
know how to reward her faithful. Her
son, so fouly treated when in the noble
discharge of duty as the Executive in a
newly pledged Territory, may yet act as
the honored Executive of the State sec
ond in wealth, power and population, or
represent her interests in the Senate OF
the nation The onee-rejected minister
I-plenipotentiarY became The President oil
the United States. The lesson has not
lost its meaning. A homily of like i'm
port may yet be read TO an administra-
ton upon whose fronifet its own iatuity
WAS written s'pooMED.