The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Miseella
Gov. Reeder at Home.

We have before US says the Washing
ton Union, an extra of the Easton, Pa,
Argus, which gives full and highly in
teresting account of Gov. Reeder's recent
visit to his former residence in that town.
Gov. Reeder arrived at Easton on Mon
day last, in the morning train of cars
from New York, and was met at the de-
pot by large body of his fellow-citizens,
without distinction of party, who receiv-
ed him with hearty cheers and warm con-
gratulations. He was escorted to the
court house, where he was welcomed by
Hon. James M. Porter, formerly Secre
tary of War, in brief but exceedingly
felicitous speech. Judge Porter said, in
conclusion I'VE welcome you among
us. You retain our undiminished conf
dence and regard, and We pray that be-
nigu Providence may preserve you In
health and strength for long life of use
fulness to yourcountry and yourf friends. :"
GOVERNOR REEDER's REPLY.
Governor Reeder, with much feeling
and impressive eloquence, returned his
thanks to the assemblage for the fiattering
demonstration of welcome with which
he had been greeted on his return to the
home of his nativity, the bosom of his
family, and the society of long loved and
valued friends, after an absence on the
very outer frontiers of our immense re-
public, amid scenes somewhattrying and
embarrassing. BY permission of the
eloquent gentleman who had been their
organ upon this occasion, he addressed
them directly as he preferred TO do. 1t
was more consonant with his feelings to
speak without any medium of communi-
cation directly to the sea of manly and
familiar faces. covering warm and honest
hearts of old and valued friends. lie
alluded to the address of their speaker,
which called him out upon the subject OF
his official action as the Governor of Kan
sas, and the state of circumstances which
there surrounded him, and after thanking
them for the appreciation they had ex-
pressed of his official action and the high
pleasure which such approval mustneees-
sarily confer, he said he was reluctantly
compelled to admit the truth of the facts
relating to the recent election. Indeed,
it would be in vain to attempt to disguise
orconceal them, humiliating as they were.
He should have been surprised to find
them so well acquainted with the true
state of the facts, and so keenly alive to
the oppressive injustice that had beencom-
mitted, if he had not already ascertained
that this knowledge had preceded him all
along the route he had travelled He had
found along his whole route the same IA
miliarity with the facts, and the same
state of indignant excitement. 1t seem
ed as though some electric medium had
difused over the country full knowl-
ledge of the circumstances, and that buI
one sentiment peryaded all parties, sects,
and factions in the country through which
he had passed. impelling them to thc
strongest denunciation of the recent out
rage upon popular sovereignty and The
lpurity of the balIot-box. 1t was indeed
ttoo true that Kansas had been invaded
conquered, subiugated, by an armed forc'
from beyond her borders, led on by a ia
Ifiatical spirit, trampling under foot tn
Kansas bill and the right of suffrage. HI
reminded his hearers of the fact that h
had been, as they well knew, an earl,
and consistent friend and advocate of tn
principle of that bill he believed in
then, and his opinion was still unchang
led. Thepeople of Kansas would ask no
thing but that the principle of that bll
should be carried out, and that the right
| for which they had the sacred and solemn
. pledge of the nation should be secured t
them. That this bill had been repudia
ted, those pledges, under which they ha
, gone forth to establish another republic
had been forfeited, it was impossible t
deny. He said none knew better tha
those whom he now addressed how cor
stantly and consistently he had contende
for all the constitutional and legal righf
: (which had been guaranteed to every SEE
? | ton of the Union, and how sternly he ha
= warred against the fanatieism that Woul
! violate them. He was ready to oppos
| the fanaticism that was reckless of ii
rights of others, come from what quartz
: lit would, and all he asked for the infar
t land feeble community over which he pr.
sided was that their ballot-boxes shoul
5 be respected. and their rights held $.
Fl cred. With the decisions they shoul
: then make he would rest satisfied. b
when they were overborne by nzmbel
5 land preparation beyond their power
resist, they must appeal to the spirit
freedom, and the sense of justice anon
Q their fellow citizens of the States, 20 7
? dress their wrongs By the moral force
a unanimous and determined toneof pul
lie opinion that would frown down Il
t wrong and yindicate the right, acting
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