The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-15

willing 10 enter into the quarrel between
Gov. Reeder and the Administration.
NOMINATION OF CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE.
Moved that the convention proceed at
once to the nomination OLA Territorial
Delegate to Congress. Mr.. Conway
moved that ANDREW II. REEDER,
late Governor of Kansas, be our nomi-
nee. The motion was seconded, and
carried by acelamation. Cheer followed
upon cheer the announcement of the re-
suit. All order was lost in the confu-
sion, and every person present seemed
to join i'll the cry for REEDER REEDER !!
The late Governor appeared upon the
stand in answer to the repeated calls, and
at the moment appeared deeply moved
with this unexpected outburst of enthu-
siaSm.
GOV. REEDER's RESPONSE.
He proceeded to say how much he
thanked them for their encouraging and
Strengthening friendship; that such ap-
plause and approval would repay all the
injustice that might be heaped upon any
man that every man there would do
him the justice to say that this nomina-
ton had been given entirely without So
licitation by him or by his friends; that
to accept itwould seriously interfere with
private engagements, and that he had
continually refused it when urged until
he had been told by men from all parts
of the Territory that his name was eS-
sentIal to success. He would now ac-
cept it upon the condition that he be not
expected to canvass the Territory in per-
son. To do SO would not be consonant
with his feelings as well as that he de-
sired to so into the halls of Congress
and say 81 come here with clean hands,
the spontaneous choice of the sovereign
squatters of Kansas" In giving him
this nomination, in this manner, they had
strengthened his arms to do their work
and, in return, he would now pledge to
them steady, unfinching pertinacity
of purpose, never tiring industry, dogged
perseverance, and all the abilities with
which God had endowed him to the
righting of their wrongs, and the final
triumph of their cause. He believed
from the circumstances which had for
the last eight months surrounded him,
and which had at the same time placed
in his possession many facts, and bound
him heart and soul to the oppressed
voters of Kansas, that he could do much
towards obtaining a redress of their
grievances.
He said that day by day crisis was
coming upon US that in after times
this would be to posterity a turning
point, a marked period, as are, to us the
opening of the revolution, the adoption of
the Declaration of Independence, and
the era of the alien and sedition laws ;;
that we should take each step carefully,
so that each be step of progress, and
SO that no violence be done to the tie
which binds the American people togeth-
er. He alluded to the unprecedented
tyranny under which we are and have
been and said that if any one supposed
that institutions We're to be imposed by
force upon free and enlightened people
they never-knew, or had forgotten, the
history of our fathers. American citi-
zens bear in their breasts too much of
the spirit OF other and trying days, and
have lived too long amid the blessings of
liberty to submit to oppression from any
quarter, and the man who, having once
been free could tamely submit to tyranny
was lit TO be slave.
He urged the Free State mep of Kan
sas to forget all minor issues and pursue
determinedIy the one great object, never
swerving but steadily pressing on as did
the wise men who followed the star to
the manger, looking back only for fresh
encouragement. He counseled that
peaceful resistance be made to the tyran-
ical and unjust laws of the spurious leg
islature; that appeals to the Courts, to
the ballot box, and to Congress be made
for relief from this oppressive load; that
violence should be deprecated as long As
a single hope of peaceable redress re-
manned but if at last all these should
fail-if in the proper tribunals there is
no hope for our dearest rights, outraged
aud profaned-ifwe are still to suffer
that corrupt men may reap haryests wa
tered by our tears, then there is one more
chance for justice. God has provided
in the eternal frame of things redress
for every wrong, and there remains to US
still the steady eye, and the strong arm,
and We must conquer, or mingle the
bodies of the oppressors with those of the
oppressed upon the soil which the Dee
laration of Independence no longer pro-
tects. But he was not at all apprchen
siye that such crisis would ever arrive.
He believed that justice might be found
far short of SO dreadful an extremity,
and even should an appeal to arms come
il was his opinion that if We are well pre-
pared that moment the victory is won.
Our invaders viii never strike a blow in
so unjust cause.
''Thrice arinetl is he who hath his quarrel Just.
He then entered into the plan of con-
due ting the campaign, and advised that
the Proclamation from the people calling
the election be signed by every voter.
Let the legal requirements of an election
be strictly observed. Our position is
one of asking only that the law be car
riea out. When Col. Ethan Allen, was
asked at Ticonderoga by whose authori-
ly he demanded the fort, be replied, ''In
the name of the great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress" l expect of
you, that you so prepare me, that toasin-
liar question / may boldly answer '.The
great Jehovah and the Sovereign Squat
ters ofKansas.' He spoke long and elo-
auently upon the importance that no
rashness should endanger the Union
which we all love and clieye to. lie did
not consider the correct public senti-