New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-25
GOyERy0R REEDER IN KANSAS.
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lOr lbf past IOhE utubh'i ehA
over the whole Territory in ques. Of the best
n nill-pIiyil, ges and timber, has enjoyed unusual
facilities for acquiring correct kso Wedge oil
the estimation in which Governor Rseder ls re-
garded by the sctual settlers. Our informant ls
not personally acquainted with Governor Reeier,
ia politically, on party grounds, opposed TO hun,
and therefore will not be suspected OF bias and
prejudice which surely entities his representations
to high degree of credit. He assures US that
three out Of four of the residents in the Territory
are strongly Free-Soil, and could there to-day be
fair reelection not one Pro-Slayery candidate
could be elected
The feeling against their Missouri invaders and
the hatred and disgust fer the body OF impudent
6re-eaers now in session at Shawnee Mission, con-
stitutipg themselves the Legislature OF Kansas,
continues undated, and were il not for the conh-
dent hope that the next Congress will repudate all
their acts. il is highly probable that the people
would rise and disperse them.
Tie "tub TO the whale of a bill 10 suppress
gambling and ntemperance, so artfdlly introduced.
at the outset Of their proceedings has altogether
failed of its object 10 reconcile the good ctlzens
for there, as in our own State and IN many Others,
such legislation is vain and "dead-letter,' and
coming as this does from one of the most prOhigate
of legislative bodies that our unhappy country was
ever afflicted with the virtuOus and orderly viii
not believe that any good thing can come out OF IT,
The feeling toward Governor Reeder and the
opinion as to bis official action is undivided and eu
thusastic. 90
They DO not forget the threat of Atchson String
fellow & Co, to oppose and neutralze every act
of the Governor even before as after the election
nor that there was a we-concOcted scheme to
en- broil him in personal quarrelsi to charge him
with frauds and neglect OF duty, and with being
an slly of the Emgrant Aid Society, and worse
than all things else an 1bOIth0ntst that the
resolve was registered in some way or otner,
Governor Reeder must be driven from office and
though il was reasonably supposed that his mes
ssee. containing as it did fair exposition OF mod
crate and conservative principles, would have made
him acceptable 10 all parties. Yet the opposition
was too bitter to be appeased aud their hrst
was 10 remove the seat OF legislation from
tie place where the Governor had convened 1t.
Pawtee City was peculiarly adapted for the trans
action Of business being central in its location, In
the immediate vicinity of the national tortlhca-
tiops. which al all times were well supplied with
everv material desirable TO the new settler. The
Government had erected there spacious stone
buildings for the accommodation OF the legislative
bodies. and every provision was made for their
comfort in the way OF hotels and clearinghouse
But nothing would satisfy the Missourians short
of Shawnee Mission, but four miles from their BOT
der and as the Governor, under the act of Con-
eress, had the undisputed right TO appoint their
teyuporarv seat, il was TO be expected that he
would veto their removal and being elsewhere
than at Pawnee no more than any other body OF
men acting under usurped power, his only
course left was simply TO veto their action with
out comment.
The complaint made by some of the Northern
Press that Governor Reeder should never have
recognized the members as having been legally
elected, for the reason that it was notorious that
MssOurians did the voting and not residents
of Kansas cannot be sustained when all the facts
are remembered, for the polls having been in pos
session of the enemy with few exceptions, only
eleven members were rejected and a new election
was promptly called by the Governor to ill their
places.
Our informant had it directly from TIE Cover
pors lips, as he was conversing with party of
gentlemen, that he would have set aside all the
elections, had the judges of the polls put him in
possession Of afhdayits alleging fraud as did those
presiding over those eleven p"ls.
Notorious as was the fact that every species oil
cheating and fraud had been practiced, yet the
Governor had no right to act upon this general no.
toriety aud had no discretion in the matter but
was obliged to Issue his certificates 70 the parties
presenting the sworn returns.
1t was the same in the case of Whitfield, for
though all the world knew that his election had
been procured by violence and fraud, yet the OIL
cal returns of the Judges left the Governor no
choice
An official can never be guided BY newspapers
or public rumor.
The silly stories about land speculations never,
with tie people, received any other than the con-
tempt they deserved.
The practice of trading in wild lands is as an
cent as the incorporation of Territories, and In
this case Governor Reeders contracts were all
made subject to the appreciation of the President,
which, having been dsapproyed, one would sup
pose there should be the end of il.
The Governors mastery correspondence with
Secretary Marcy has been read and commented
upon everywhere in the Territory, and the sur
prise of the people is only equaled by their disgust
that the President should have made use OF so
miserable pretext for his removal.
From all the abuse which has been so layishly
leaped upon him. from all the real danger TO life
and character which have so thichly surrounded
lis every step since first he came among US, Gov
trnor Reeder has come out harmlessand unsulhed,
and could the real wishes Of the people be known,
be would by wide reclamation, be still their ruler
and room their representative in the National
Senate.
His conservative politics are peculiarly calcula-
ted for the times and people of Kansas for, being
advocate Of popular sovereignty, he ought TO be
acceptable to all the rational people of both North
and South and, having been an ardent champion
of the Kansas and Nebraska bill, would be the
more acceptable to the Hunkerisms Of his party.
That bill, as the Governor understood it, simply
declared the doctrine of popular sovereignty,
meaning thereby that if the majority of State or
Territory preferred slave labor to free labor they
might have it and be protected in it.
We have good reasons to believe, and he makes
no secret of it, that the Governor is strongly Free
Soil in his principles, and was willing to use all
fair and honorable means for making Kansas q