Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
msskIy state Sentinel,
Gov. Reeder's Removal.

0ON. RooQoI B RcmCVal.
We have taken our position and we intend
keepit We have declared that We had
no confidence in ATcHNsoS, and that he was
disgrace to the party; we have denounced
STRINGFEILow and his gang Of rufians who
had brought odium on the principles of the
Nebraska bill. We are confident that in ex-
pressing these sentiments we were echoins
the unanimous voice of the Democracy OF
Indiana But we cannot be lead to play into
the hands of the Abolition press by adopting,
without proof their aspersions Of the charsc-
acter and imputAtions on the motives of Presi-
dent PIERCE.
It was to have been expected the oppo-
nsnts Of Democracy would attempt to make
political capital cut Of the removal of Gov.
REEDEa. Our advorsaries are held together
by the hope of public plumber; and having no
principles Of political action save one, viz: to
beat the Democrats and occupy their places,
they Of necessity must resort to unfounded
assertions and baseless fabrications. In this
class of statements Is to be numbered the gra-
tuitous charge that President Pierce has APP
proved SrsISsFELLow by the removal of
RzEDRR.
There is not single tact In the case which
warrants such q conclusion; and we have
eOnvsrsed with two gentlemen who have had
personal interviews with President PIERCE,
and have been assured by him that the sla-
very question had nothing TO do with REED
ER's dismissal. Whatever politicians may
think of PIERCE as President he is known to
be man Of honor; and his word has more
weight than the ibels of the Abolition press.
The Washington Sentinel which is no friend
to the administration, said some days ago:
The cause of Governor Reeder's removal
does not precisely appear, and while his re-
the right-minded citizens of Kansas, yet it
does not appear that his anti-slavery acts and
movements had any thing TO do with it. 1t
is rather supposed that he was removed be-
cause he failed to satisfy the President in re-
gard TO the charges preferred against him, OF
purchasing Indian reservations and speculs-
ting in the lands Of the Territory.
Other officers of the Territory were impH-
Gated in the transactions which are supposed
to have led to Governor Reeder's removal,
and it is not improbable that such officers,
unless they shall speedily purge themselves,
viii share his fate.
We shall not abandon our Democratic Pres
ident on the suspicious of the Abolition press
We believe he is true as steel to the cause
Of Democracy, and viii not bring its princi-
pies into disrepute. IL he does so, so much
the worse for him.
While on The subject of Gov. Reeder, we
recommend the following judicious and SEN
sible article from the Pittsburgh Post to our
readers:
Gov. Reeder's Mistake
We have all along approved the course of
Gov. Reeder in Kansas, and hoped he would
be continued in Office and sustained. But In
our view he committed one mistake of a Sc
nous nature. When the Legislature of the
Territory assembled he sent to it message
In the usual manner. BE thereby recognized
itas the lawful Legisl ature, and was probably
right in doing SO. The Legislature then
passed an act providing for removal to Shaw
nee Mission. The Governor vetoed this bill,
and 1t was Immediately passed by two
thirds vote. Up TO this time, then, he re-
eognized that body as the Legislature of Kan
sas. But on their removal to Shawnee Mis-
sion he informed them that he should no
longer consider them legislative body, and
their acts would be void. His ground for
this was that the right of designating the place
of meeting of the Legislature was vested in
the Governor alone. Bnt they went TO Shaw.
nee Mission and there pissed several bills and
sent them to the Governor for his signature
He vetoed them This was a great mistake
1t recognized the Legislature still. They
passed them over his veto by a two-thirds
vote, and so they became laws That act o.
the Governor gives them all the forms of law
We are not disposed to find fauld with the
Governors conduct. But it is evident tha
SO bitter had become the quarrel between
him and the Legislature, and the southern
portion of the settlers, that he could do very
little good there. 1t is seldom that so higt
handed an outrage as that of the Missourianl
in Kansas has failed to meet a stern rebuke
We are much mistaken if the rebuke in thi
case is not a severe one. The case present.
not question of slavery or freedom, but
question of the freedom of the ballot box
and the right of the people of each State anc
Territory to make its own laws. Missouri
giving law to Kansas is novelty not to b,
allowed; and Missourians undertaking to ex
clude people from northern States from tn
territories of the Union Is an act Of audacit,
that will not be forgotten.
It may be well, however, to try anothe
man for Governor, for it was evident tina
Gov. Reeder could accomp lish nothing. H
had, in fact pleased neither of the partie
there.