The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-02
From the Milwaukee Daily News.i
HOW MEN BECOME SUDDENLY
GREAT.

We need not look beyond what is now
transpiring to learn that
In civil broils the worst of men may rise.
In fact, they are the men most likely
to be elevated by such broils. A great
many good men have gone into Kansas
to labor and develop the resources of
that Territory, and yet few disreputa-
bic characters have managed to keep up
such turmoil and give themselves so
much prominence in it that the eye of
the nation are now TUNED towards such
men as Reeder, Stringfellow, Lane, Nc
Crea and Robinsoh. Gov. Reader, like
our neighbor Booth, ACQUIRED his rcputa-
tion mainly through martyrdom. lie
was fogs~a by Stringfellow and subse-
quontly removed FROM Office by the Pres
ident for purchasing lands from the In
dians in violation of the law. lie gave
the members of the Legislature whose en-
actments he now treats as null and void
the. certificates of election, without which
they would not have constituted legis-
lature, and recognised that body as valid
for months afterWards, and, in fact, nev-
er questioned the regularity of the elec-
tion of its members while in Office which
he owed it to himself, his oath and his
country, to question, if frauds had Been
perpetrated to the extent he now claims
It was good legislatu for Coz. Reed
err, but most diabolical legislature for
citizen Reeder. In office he could toler-
ate it,. and in private life he repudiates
it, To use favorite expression of Col.
Lanes, this legislature was the work of
Reeders's own hands. He made it-not
in the sense that Col. Lane claims to
have made the President of the United
States, but by infusing into it life, and
furnishing it with the Indispensable pre-
requisites of its existence.
Now, that he like Nebuchadnezzar
has been turned out to grass, it may very
naturally occur to him that he must re-
gret it, and like Col Lane, ask God and
the people to forgive him. 1t shows
lamentable state of destitution and de-
monstrates the beggarly condition to
which the Republican party is reduced
when it severely blows before a man now
devoid of influence, who when in power
spurned black rcpublicanism, and accor-
ding to its own definition inaugerated in
Kansas the reign of terror, by bis Off ]
cial recognition, and endorse cement of Che
legislature which Our opponents de-
nounce in most unmeasured terms as
fraudulent, vicious and tyranieal.. To
this legislature every member of which
holds Gov" Reeder's certificate, and /
which he treated as a good and lawful |
legislature for many months, do the |
black republicans attribute the origin of
all tho difficulties in Kansas. This,
The direful spring
Ofall the Kansas woes, !
was the creation of Gov. Reeder.
Has any Republican paper ever pub
lished these facts? Dare the republi-
can expose to the public gaze, the acts
and deeds of Gov. Reeder when in po-
sition to prevent fraud-in an Office
where it was his duty at all hazards to
defeat these wrongs of which he now
and of which he was then ad-
Vised, and even went so far as to investi-
gate and determine officially and sanc-
ion in a most solemn and conclusive
with the present professionD and
lcts of citizen Reeder.
In no instance has this been done but
n imitation of Reeder, who indorsed
What he claims to be bogus legislature,
10 they cloak and indorse this spurious
patriot. II
When Reeder has said all that can be
aid against the Legislative enchantments l
# Kansas, and denounced the body
which passed them as spurious, unlaw-
ul and hellish, there is q record which I
omforts bim, and like the prophet of {
Id, says Thou art the man !' If he t
lid really sanction such a legislature as /
10 now declares this to be, and has truly j