Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-05-05

| "oulu naturally prefer 10 govern the territory
himself. He is now on his way to Washington,
to lay the matter before his friend the Presi-
dent, and to say that if he, can be properly
supported by the government he will order "a
new election, inasmuch as an election by the
people has been foreibIy prevented.
| Ihe Chief Magistrate has but one course to
pursue. He must stand by Governor Reeder:
he must see that the real settlers of Kansas
elect their own legislature, and if they are dis
turbed and hindered by bands of ruffans from
any of the States, the disturbers must be put
down by the strong arm of the government
We have raised few new regiments lately for
the purpose of protecting the people of Oregon
and California from the Indians In both those
parts of the country the Indians are now quiet
not rifle is likely to be aimed by a savage at
white man for months to come, nor a cow or
horse to be driven off from the neighborhood
of white mans cabin 1t is the settlers of
Kansas who are in danger; they are ten times
more exposed to the ncursions of marauders
than the settlers of the region beyond the
Rocky Mountains. If they are not to be plum
dered of their property, they are to be robbed
of their political rights the plot is laid by
tribe of sayages to whom the Indians on the
Pacific coast are quiet and pacific, and blood
who go out on this profigate errand rather
than it should fail of execution. Here then,
is the place for the new regiments detach-
ment of men in military order to guard the
polls when any disturbance, any violent intru-
sion of the bullies sent out from Missouri is
expected. There is not one man in ten thro'-
out the whole country, who would not say that
this is the best use to which our troops can be
put.
Some of the newspapers are talking OF insults
inflicted by the Spanish authorities on Ameri.
can citizens, and calling on our government to
interfere. If our government desires TO distin-
gush itself by protecting its citizens from insult
here is an opportunity Take all that Spain
has done from the beginning, put the worst
face upon every case, adopt every complaint
without selection, and form them into the lar
gest possible aggregate still they are nothing
in comparison to the injuries which the Mis-
souri, rufians have inflicted upon our country
men in Kansas. What are the cases of Mr.
Thompson and DIR Peck in Cuba, to the scores,
hundreds, thousands of American citizens in
Kansas stripped Of the right of suffrage by
combination of violence and fraud What is
shot fired in the air, by Spanish vessel of
war in order to bring to the steamer El Dora
on her voyage, compared with the wrong done
to the Kansas electors, by party of drunken
ruffians taking possession of the polls. with ri
fles an revolvers, making it necessary for the
genuine voter to take his life in his hand if he
approached them2 What is the case OF a vice
consul in Cuba, arrested, liberated and com
pensated for his detention, compared with that
of Reeder, the Governor of a territory, receiv-
ing his appointment from the President of the
United States, beSet and baited by those bull
lies threatening to take his life if he refused to
set his hand to a false certificate of the legal
election of those men for whom they had given
their yotes2 If the government should submit
and we think it will not-to indignities of
this sort, if it should allow its representative
in Kansas, and the people over whom he was
Fl, placed to exercise the Executive power, to be
treated in this manner, the present administra-
| tion would deserve to be regarded as one of
the most feeble and spirtlesS that ever had the
management of public affairs i'll any country.
Governor Reeder, it is well known, cherishes
no particular emnity to slavery He approved
of the Nebraska bill he was democrat of
the genuine Pierce stamp, unSuSpected of any
| tendency to abolitionism and was appointed to
the post he fills partly on account of these
qualifications lie might, therefore one would
suppose, have expected some forbearance from
the agents of Mr. Atchison. He simply re-
fused to go all lengths he would not consent
to make himself infamous, and for this he was
driven from the territory 1t will be the bus
ness of the government to send him back with
such support as will make him safe in the ex-
ercise of his functions and if he is not willing
again to face the bules from Missouri, to send
somebody who will ..-
Our readers may not perhaps be aware that
Atchson and his bules have their newspaper
organ in Missouri, entitled the Squattey Soce-
reign conducted by man named Strongfel,
low, which, during the election and immediate
ly afterwards, was filled with intlammatory ex-
hortations to commit violence on the Govern
Or whom it called periured villain, white
Iivered abolitionist &c We quote passage
| or two:
ar There is feeling rising in the territory
against the Governor, that only his absence
will prevent the general outbreak Revolution
is in every mouth, and if the President still
persists in forcing Reeder upon us, God only
knows what the on;equences will be, We
hope, we pray, that we may be spared the ne
cessty of such desperate measures, but, if we
are left the alternative of living under despo-
tic government, or OF choosing more honora-
BILE mode Of freeing ourselves, we are plain to
admit that we shall choose the latter course
1--WE would not like TO
see the governor dangling in the air by the
neck-he will soon be dead, dead dead with
out that-mereIy because we consider him a
fair specimen of eastern chivalry and a fair
sample of freesoiler but if he is al abo-
ZIONIST at heart and in action, and would abct
in running off darkies into Canada, it might be
well enough to place the moose around his neck
by way of experiment, if it were only to hear
him cough, and see him make pretty faces"