Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-06-30
President Pierce and cav. Reader.

up to that standard, or be denounced as
heterodox. We have charity enough to
believe that other people may sometimes
be right, although their belief may con-
| Aict with that of our own, and their the
ory be Numerically opposed to that which
we may propose. We are as liable to
entertain erroneous views, and II is as pos
sible for us to advocate detective theory,
as other people. Hence, we are not prone
to lay the lash of censure and elimination
with harsh severity, upon that policy,
which originating in good motives, fails
Of accomplishing good results. In the ex.
ecut'on OF a high administrative trust en-
bracing within its jurisdiction the limits
Of mighty nation. and extending even to
the control Of intercourse with other ma
lions, i, is hardly to be expected that the
varied opinions of diversified population,
biased by local prejudices and usages.
could all be gratified, and system Of pol
icy adopted without spot and blameless."
Right Reason could not expect it.
II is with these views we introduce a
few remarks called forth by the correspon-
dence published on the first page Of this
paper, between Gov. Reeder of Kansas
and Commissioner Manypenny, upon the
subject of Gov. Reeder's conduct while
Governor Of the Territory. We have no
excuse 10 offer for Governor ReedeI. He
stands before the country convicted by his
own confession of proaigacy in his official
conduct. He has written himself down
with his own pen, clustering bully, and
an unprincIpled trickster. We leave him
in the depths of in!amy his own hands
have prepared, there to receive the kissing
contempt of his indignant countrymen,
which he so ITCHY deserves.
Not less The conduct Of the condemned
official than that Of the appointing power,
is involved in the consideration of this
subject. We must consider whether the
same culpability which is so intellectually
fastened upon Reeder, attaches also to the
President OF the United States. Without
further remark, we are prepared to acquit
Gen. Pierce OF any bad motive in the ap-
pointmeni ofthe Governors Of Kansas aud
Nebraska. while we at the same time,
cannot withhold our unm,tigated censure OF
the short.sighted. unwise and unstates-
manslike policy adopted by him, in ap-
pointing Southern man over Nebraska
aud Northern man over Kansas. To
this iuexcusable policy is all the difficulty
which has occurred, aud which is likely
to grow out OF the settlement Of the Kansas
traceable. An unwise and please every.
body motive seems TO have governed the
President, and his incongruous cabinet
He had not nerve to meet with proper re-
sentiment the impudent complaints Of
Northern fanatics, but resorted to the un-
tenable and wish-a-washy course Of seek
ing to please the North by placing over
the Territory claimed TO be slave, an anti
slavery man, and over the Territory claim
ed to be free, pfo.slayery man--thus
sowing the seeds Of dissension and Strife
some of the fruits of which have already
been seen.
That Reeder's appointment was great
blunder. and that his instant removal is
impe,atively demanded, by the interests Of
the country, are amply proven by the cor.
respobaenee we to-day lay before our
readers. between him and Commissioner
Manypenry. A careful pe.usai Of the
documents will amply attest the clustering.
bullying. and undigniied character Of the
one, and the fearless, aud honest traits Of
the other. Gov. Reeder has not only es-
tabIished most couclusively his utter unfit
ness for the place he holds,b the evidence
he furnishes of the naturally vulgar bent
Of his mind. but he exposes himself to tue
seyerest criticism and The harshest judg-
ment, in the violation of known Legislative
enactments. The point and power Of
Commissioner Manypenny's reply to his
gaseous letter. fix upon him the EXTREMIST
in his officsl administration, and
leave no hope or excuse to justify his re-
teEtion in office. The notices we publish
on this page from Gov. Marcy and Gen.
Gushing encourage the belief that forbear-
ance has ceased to be virtue in this case,
and that proper steps will be taken to RIO
the county of Reeder's services, and those
OF Judges Johnson and Elmore, and Attor-
ney lsaacs.
President Pierce cannot refuse to re-
move Reeder. The true men Of the DEM
ocrotic party ia the North and the unani-
nous wish OF the party Of the South, cry
loudly ior his removal. lie should have
been removed ere this. The instant he
sought to influence the Northern mind and
call upon them TO take their cause in their
own han 8 provided Mi 'souri did not re:u-
datp..the action of the pro-savery party IN
Kansas, and in the event Missouri did not
repudiate the pro-savery men of Kansas,