Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-11
GOV. REEDER's REMoVAL--COMMENTS OF
THE PRESS OF PENNSYLVANIA.

says that his removal has called forth i'll our
midst, as elsewhere, the strongest expressions
of Indignation" 1t then goes on to review the
circumstances under which he accepted the ap-
pointment, and discloses in President PIERCE
degree of vacillation and weakness which is
characteristic. The Argus says
In our own great State of Pennsylvania he
was found among the first to advocate the
Kansas Nebraska bill, looked upon by many
honest Democrats as an unnecessary and un-
called-for measure ;--irreproachable as man,
eminent as a lawyer, national in his views, the
President with good reason felicitated himself
upon having found the right man for the
right place" The compensation of the Office
was inconsiderabe, while the semi-barbarous
life On the Western frontier presented nothing
but aversion to one who only mingled in soce
ty to adorn it-with no taste and no desire for
public of1ico-we repeat it, only at the soci-
tation of the President, was Gov. REEDER in
duced to accept the appointment. He went
proudly, independently untrammeled, simply
to do his duty. How well and too faithfully
he performed it the whole enlightened world
can testify Because that invasion and out
rage were rebuked-because that he proclaim
ed his intention to protect the citizens of Kan
Sas in their right of franchise, and declared
that while he was Governor, claw and order
should reign"-the inSensate fanatics of Mis-
souri, and their ultra Southern sympathizers de-
nounced him as an abolitionist and a tyrant,
and pursued him with a ferocity as dsgraceful
as it was unjust. Immediately after the first
election held in Kansas, one after another of
the Missouri invaders called upon the Presi-
dent and fled their complaints against the Co.
vernon charging him with neglect of his Off
cal duties illegal speculations in lands &c
We state upon authority that cannot be dispu-
ted, that President PIERCE at that time told
friend / am satisfied that Gouprn0r Recder
possesses .frmnesS, honesty and capacity, and
man aoho has these three qualities don't often get
'orong." We happen to know too, that our
Chief Magistrate gave Gov REEDER repeated
personal assurances, that " he dpprored of his
course and wOptd haze acted precisely as he did
IN the same p0Sjtion" If the President was
sincere in his assurances of approval why did
he not manfully sustain him Why did he not
I" take the responsibility" and boldly stand by
him in his efforts to preserve the purity of the
ballotbox and to maintain the principles of
RIGHT? 1t is to say the least, discreditable
position for the Chief Magistrate of this great
nation to occupy. But the enemy were on his
path and bent on his destruction, renewed the
silly charges of illegal land speculatious, which
on investigation were proved to be as ground
less as the Others and it was with reason to be
expected that having been found without blem-
ish, the President would have been only too
glad to have sustained and supported him.
We are willing to believe that, uninfuenced
by others this would have been the course ta-
ken by the President, but wanting in that no.
bic independence which has forever crowned
with luStre the great JACKSON, who under not
unlike circumstances, announced to his refrac-
tory Cabinet, Il AM PRESIDENT AND
WILL TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY" Mr. PIERCE
yields-and honor good faith and true nobili-
ty are sacrificed to rutfianiSm and anarchv.-
Our Chief Magistrate has thrown away as fa-
yorable an opportunity as ever was presented
to any of his predecessors to render his Admin
istration illustrious. Had he taken both Mas
sachusetts and Missouri in hand, engaged as
they both have been in setting at defiance the
laws of the national government. and called
them both to account, our whole people would
have sustained him and the entire country would
have applauded the act.
We trust the successor of Gov. REEpER will
receive better treatment. If he can consent to
sacrifice all manly independence, obey the be-
heStS Of a Missouri mob, and allow himself, in
his every act, to be governed by their dictates.
his position will be pleasant enough, and he can
speculate in lands to his hearts content. But
II he dares to remember that heis MAN-with
head, mind, conscience and a reputation at
stake, the President will soon again be called
upon to supply Kansas with a new and more
plant Governor, and we may have a repetition
of the outrageous scene just enacted-a second
attempt to ruin most deserving man. and an
other step toward rendering the present Admin
stration as odious and unpopular as it is weak
and imbecile
The Democratic Union, at Harrisburg, speaks
in independent and indignant tones of this out
rage. 1t is refreshing in the great Sahara of
Pennsylvania doughfaceism to meet with such
an oasis. We really begin to have hope that
the democratic press of Pennsylvania may
emerge from the slough of servility into which
it has sunk, and dare to stand up nobly in de-
fence of the Right The Union "talks out in
meeting" as follows =
REMOVAL OF Gov REEDER-A blow which
will recoil with terrible effect has been struck
by the National Administration. Whether it is
the impulse of galvanized imbecility, ill-iudg-
ing counsellors, malice or disappointment, we
little care. A gross and fragrant wrong has
however been perpetrated, a wrong which ere
long will bring shame and reproach upon those
who were its inStigators and its doers. The
hour has passed when specious tale will
deceive the Dpopla No nunriIa charra Of Iond
speculations can buffet an instant against the
storm of wrath which will be aroused. A
high-minded, honorable, fearless and determined
man has been wantonly and basely stricken
down. because he asserted and would vindicate
the rights of freemcn against horde of law
less and law-breakng rufians. Because Gov.
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