The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-08

efh eAcctions Point out Tue way Out lney also
show that these violent oaths against Catholics
| and aliens-born, and these binding Know No
| thing ccremonials of hard swearing and dark
lanterns, are bar to their success, even where
otherwise the people would give them an easy
| victory.
GOVERNOR REEDER AND THE ADMINISTRATION
| WAY CURIoUs AND VERY INTEREsriNo.-Wc
! transfer to our columns this morning, short
| letter from Washington to one Of our morning
contemporaries, in explanation of the removal
of Governor Reeder; and the facts therein re-
lated, if true, are not only very curious and
very interesting, but decidedly important.
| it is fatty stated that Mr.. Pierce wanted to
| get rid of Governor Reeder, but did not wish
to shame him if he could help it. This point,
from all the complicated and delicate cir
| cumstances of the case, as q Cabinet diff
| Guilty, we apprehend is or can be fully es-
tablished. Everybody is satisfied that it is so.
| 1t next appears that the President offered to
buy of the Governor with q mission to China
and that failing in that bid, he tried the mis-
| sion to England-and We see no occasion to dis
| credit these points of the narrative. Then, as
| we are told, Governor Reeder, after two days
reflection upon the splendid offer of Mr.. Blu
| chanans position, made it a sine qua non with
| the President that his desire for the transfer
| Of the Governor from Kansas to the Court Of
ST James should be reduced to writing, and, to-
| gether with the Governors acceptance of the
promotion should be officially published in the
| Washington Union. Here, We suspect, the facts
| have been overstated. Very likely Governor
! Reedcr from his intimate acquaintance with
| Colonel Forney, and his own personal know
| ledge Of administration promises and
! performances, knew enough to require
| the putting upon record in white and black,
! any promise OF better Office for the resigna-
| ton Of that Of Kansas And why not? Ii
the Governor had cause to suspect that he was
| to be bumbugged, why not require the compact
| to be done in writing? The list Of unfortunate
men who have been deceived, betrayed and
ruined by the empty unwrtten promises Of this
! and other administrations, if summed up would
astonsh the uninitated As a pure business
Transaction, then, the conditions demanded by
Governor Rccdcr for the resignation of his
Kansas Office, were perfectly natural and pro-
per, in a business point of view.
Assuming that he was offered the mission TO
England, OF some other tempting office, to re-
lieve the administration in Kansas, the qucs-
ton recurs, why did not the Executive close
the bargain at once, by reducing it to pen, ink
and paper, not for publication, but to make all
sure? We can only conclude that the Eyecu-
tive refused because his purpose was limited
IN, In ~ ho nd that
| had he resigned upon the faith Of a mere pri-
| vate conversation, he would have been as free
| to 20 to England or to Russia, on his own
| private account rs the Hon. Mike Walsh,
who leaves to-day in the Atlantic. Where
would have been the proof that ne had been
offered anything for resigning? His own
| statem<ni of the fact, without witnesses, would
| 90 for nothing against the plump denial Of the
! organ, and he knew it.
| The conclusion of the correspondent IN qnes
| tion touching the removal Of Recdcr, is also
| substantially correct Recder's land spccnia-
! tons were the pretence; the necessity Of con-
! ciliating the South by his removal was the
| cause of his removal. The Governors free
| soil inclinatioDs and affiliations we're not OBJ
| jectionable--they were understood; but nc had
! gone too far and too fast with thcm--that was
all He had placed himself too conspicuously
| in the front rank Of the free soil squatter
movement TO be longer retained as the Prcsi-
| dents subordinate, because il would ruin the
administration in the South. Thus the very
act Of his appointment, designed to concillate
| the Northern free soil sentiment had to be
cancelled in his discharge, to quiet the South.
| in Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina;
aud to soften the blow to the Pcnnsylvanians
| he was dismissed upon the charge Of land spe
| eulations, which had been entered into with
the expectation Of The Presidents approval,
and which were awaiting that approval at the
! time Of his discharge.
| The case Of Reeder is that Of another victim
| TO that system of double dealing and treacbery
| through which Buchanan, Mason and Soul
were made 10 appear as meuntebanks and fill
| busters in their manifesto from Aix-1a-C ha-
! pcllc. Will Gov. Reejer submit to his humi-
liation. or, like Soul , resolve upon a full ex-
| position Of his case to tho world? That is now
the question.
I
| TBE CUBAN JuSTA.--ln oar translation OF the
! appeal of the Cuban Junta we made them com
| plain of the GOODNESS and opposition Of the
| american people. The original document will
! not bear that construction. Complaint was
| made of the GOODNESS aud indifference Of the