Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-04
GOVERNOR REEDER REMOVED

GOVERNOR REEDER REMOVED
We claim no gift of prophesy, nor does our
steady and reiterated opinion that Governor
REEDER would be sacrificed to the demands of
ATcHIsoS and STRINGTELLow, now fulfilled, i'm
press us with any idea of our own foresight or
Sagacity. To us it has never appeared any
thing but a question of time. We have never
for an instant doubted that President PIERCE
would be guilty of this gross injustice to salts
j fly the South of his devotion to slavery and his
recreancy to patriotism to duty, and to COM
mon dccency.
Following close upon the telegraphic declara-
ton that Gov. REEDER had succeeded in salts
fying the Administration of his innocence Of
the official misconduct attributed to him, now
comes the official announcement that he is re-
m0red, and JOHN l.. DAWSON, of this State, APP
pointed in his place Mr. DAWSON was mem
Der of the last Congress, and gave to the Ne
braSka-Kansas bill a hearty support. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that he has since been
expecting his reward at the hands of the pre-
sent Democratic National Administration. He
has at last received 1t, and we have no reason
to hope that he will be anything but a plant
and feeble instrument in the hands of the bor
| der rutlians who have invaded and Subjugated
Kansas.
This last act in the Kansas drama should
/ awaken the attention and arouse the feelings
| yf r-r!rr Northnr~ f""-~-, l. ! IL ~----l~,,
the liyelest apprehensiOns in the breast of
every patriot From its earliest conception. to
! the;act which now gives up Kansas irremediaby
to the march of Savery-it has been fraught
with the grossest debauchery in high places
and with disregard of public morality alarm
ing in the extreme. Sprung upon the country
without previous warning, the power and pat
ronage Of the Administration was eXerted in
corrupting members Of Congress to procure its
| passage in defiance Of popular sentiment The
! Compromise, scarcely less binding than the
| Constitution itseIf-madc sacred by thirty-four
years observance, gave way before the nfu-
ence of National Administration elevated bv
the united voice Of the North and the South,
and Freedom received the Severest blow it ever
suffered
With what vehemence Northern traitors as
serted that slavery would never enter into an
sas and Nebraska ! With what apparent sim
cerity and ardor they declared that the Repeal
of the Missouri Compromise would never add
to the area Of Slavery! And stranger yet,
there were men in the North who pretended to
place confidence in, and reiterated such declara-
| tions Subsequent events have shown, that
the design Of the Repeal of the Missouri Com
promise was to permit slavery to enter into
Kansas at least, and probably Nebraska, and
that those who doubted it, were either very
credulous, or extremely dishonest
No charge Of official misconduct in Cover
nor REEDER can satisfy the public that honora-
bic motives prompted his removal. If he had
been guilty of maIfeasance in Office, the present
was no time for his removal. The Admins
tration owed it to ITSELF whose authority has
been set at defiance, to the cause of law and
order, to have stood by him so long as he was
assailed, and the peace and quiet threatened
by the invaders of the soil of Kansas. The
public cannot, and should not, be satisfied that
the removal Of Gov. REEDER was prompted by
anything except desire to conciliate ArcHI-
SON and his colleagues, and to satisfy the sla-
yery-propagandistS that President PIERCE is
still ready and anxious to eat dirt at the feet
of the peculiar institution. Gov REEDER stood
before the country in the attitude of an officer
couragcously and conscientiously doing his du-
ty-and that too, while in imminent danger of
personal violence. He is sustained in his course
by the unanimous appreciation of the citizens
| of the North, and assailed by the vengeance
and denunciations Of those balfled by his integ-
rlty and frmness We care not how derelict
he may have been in other respects, it was the
duty Of the National Administration to have
sustained him so long as he was maintaining
its authority, endeayoring to preserve the III
tegrity of the ballot-box, and to organize a
territorial government with some regard to pro-
priety and deeency