Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-22
Removal of Gov. Reeder.


Some of the Democratic apers in
Pennsylvania have the maniiuess to speak
out, nobly, against this outrage. We
give below extracts from two of these
papers, which the administration could
not muzzle.
The Warren PA Ledger says:
1--WE care not what may have been
the pretended motive of the President
for executing this Outrageous act. Every
circumstance connected with the whole
affair from beginning to end, convinces
us that they could moi he &c been worthy
or justifable. L. is useless for Demo
cratic papers TO attempt to palliate the
enormiIy of tie deed, by nttributing
Reeders removal to his supposed specu-
l%ations in Indian lands. This, under the
existing circumstances, is an excuse un-
worthy to be urged by any real lover Of
justice, liberty and Law. Gov. Reeder
has proved these charges to be as false
as their authors are dishonorable and
mean. But ever if they were true, we
should think no less harshly Of the Pres
ident for removing him as and when he
cid Greater and more vital questions
were at stake than the truth or false
hood Of those charges. Liberty, law,
right and truth, had met in deadly feud
with slavery, lawlessness, wrong and
error; between them both stood Reeder;
and had the President possessed, the
least spark of patriotism oil justice, he
would not have hesitated one instant to
project ''his own Amounted" and main
tain the majesty of the law. After this
had been done, the rufianly mob eff.
~fectually quelled. and its instigators pro
perly punished, then would have been
the right time TO ascertain the validity or
invalidity of those charges.
mo, the culpability of the President
in this matter is undeniable it stands
out in all its naked enormity, a disgrace
to the man and horror Of the world
The Democratic I'm on has the follow
ing - ,
"REMovAL OF Gov. REEDER.-A blow
which will recoil with terrible effect has
been struck by The National Administra-
ton. Whether it was the impulse of a
galvanized imbecility, illjudging coun
sellers, malice or disappointment, we
little care. A gross and fragrant wrong
has, however, been perpetrated--a wrong
which ere long will bring shame and re-
proach upon those who were its instig a-
tors and its doers. The hour has pas
sed when a specious tale will deceive the
people. No puerile charge Of land spec
u~lations 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 assert
ed and would vindicate the rights of
freemen, against a horde of lavlesS and
law breakingrufians Pennsylvania will
not stand alone in the rebuke to be ut
tered around her will cluster many of
her sister States until that AdminlStra-
ton which was borne into power upon
the topmast wave of the popular will,
will sink so low that there will be none
so poor to do it reverence. As its death
will be that of the suicide, there will
neither be the mockeIy of mourners nor
the burlesque Of a funeral.
But the voice of the Keystone State
will make itself clearly heard. Blind
giant as she is, her cry will come up
through her extended borders for VEN
&c nee. Let him upon whose head it
falls beware! And well. TOO, does she
know how to reward her faithful Her
son, so foully treated when in the noble
discharge of duty as the Executive in a
newly pledged Territory, may vet act
as the honored Executive of the State
second in wealth, power and population,
or represent her interests in the Senate
of the nation. The nee rejected minis
ter pIenipotentiary became the President
of the United States. The lesson has
not lost its meaning. A homily of like
import may yet be read to an admins.
tration upon whose frontlet its own fatu.
ity was written DOOMED"