Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-11

The Washington Sentinel, ys. Gov. Reeder
and President Pierce.
On the Gath of June last, the Washington
Sentinel published an article; from which We
extract the following, towit:
FALSE RuNoRs. -Rumors are sfoat, In this city
of rumors relative TO the appointment Of COVER
nor for the Territory Of Kansas 1t Is said that the
President has rendered Is about to tender, that
Office TO an individual from a non-slaveholding
State, whose opinions upon the territorial bill are
either unsound or unknown. To such rumor we
give no credence. We cannot, we do not, believe
that the President can for moment think Of frus-
trating, by his patronage the design OF bill which
he countenanced in all It's stages and TO which he
gave his ready sanction as a law"
Well, Governor Reeder of Pennsylvania was
appointed Governor of Kansas, although the
Democratic Sentinel could give no credence to
the rumor, but believed it false. On the I'd Of
July the Sentinel published an article con-
demnatory of the course of the President in
making the appointment, and said:
"In conclusion, we repeat that we conceive 1t
to be plainly just and equitable that Southern
Governor should have been appointed to the Ter
ritory whose domestic interests and institutions
would be congenial with his own, and that a
the other Territory. Our only object, and only
wish Is, to claim for every section Of the Union,
the rights and the benefits which the constitution
promised to secure"
Governor Reeder went on his mission--used
his efforts to thwart the South-was defeated
returned to Easton, and made declaration Of
war upon the Missourians, and is now seeking
to induce the President to send an army to
"kill off" the Missourians.
Upon this state Of the case, the Sentinel on
yesterday reviewed its former editorials and
the course Of Governor Reeder and General
Pierce, and amongst other things said
eve say then, in conclusion, that the official
conduct Of Governor Reeder is highly to be repro
bated--that the speech upon which we have been
animadverting at such length, is sufficiently cor
roborative of the freeso affnties which have been
attributed to him ever since he was Governor of
Kansas that 1t exhibited diseased and morbid
prejudice against 'pro-slavery' men in that Terri
tory, which must render him incapable Of doing
them justice--that .longer continuance OF Gov
ernor Reeder in that office will be productive of
the most angry collisions, strife, and bloodshed--
and that the attractive Territory of Kansas, the
emigration to which has no parallel exceptin Cali
forna, will become 'raw.head- and bloody bones
to the more peaceful classes Of our felow-ctizens,
who would otherwise desire to make 1t their home
and the home Of their growing families Already
with one voice, have the 'pro-slavery' men of
Kansas (who are In the majority, too) declared
they did not want this man to rule over Them
and they are taking measures to make a respectful
appeal to the President in the matter. We await
his decision with great interest and patience"
Here then, is good Democratic authority
for the statements we have made, demonstra-
ting that the present administration is not
friendly to the South, and that its proclivities
and afiniies are anti-slavery, and this is the
administration whose champions assail the
American party as unsound on the question Of
Southern rights and institutions Was there
ever before seen such hypocrisy in public sta
tions