New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-18


to elect one Of the latter to an important office. Ii
is PLAIN. however that the rogues have formed
perfect combination among themselves; il now re-
mains to BE- seen whether the honest men viii COM
bine to resist them.
Few persons have had anything to do with
Franklin Pierce since his elevation 10 the Presi-
dency. who have not had abundant reason TO COM
plain of his treachery, dupcity and alsehcod, and
few have had more reason To to complain of that
sort Of treatment than Gov. Reeder. That gentle
nan, supposDg that the squatter sovereignty PrIn-
cipe. upon which the Kansas-Nebraska act pro-
iessed 10 be founded was to be carried ont in good
faith. ard that whether Kansas was to become a
free Or a slayeholdng Territory was to be left to
tie determination of the actual settlers therein, ac
cepted the Office Of Governor, with a fixed deter
minaion to hold an impartial balance between imm-
grants into the Territory Of all descriptions, and to
give 10 the squatter sovereignty system fair play
and fair trial Because he firmly adhered to this
determination because he declined to be made
mere tool of for the establishment of Slavery III the
Territory, wholly irrespective OF the wishes OF the
actual settlers in it, be was first removed from
office under false pretenscs, and when he declined
to submit quietly t. this infection, became the OBJ
ject OF special personal attack on the part oi the
President.
In Biz Kansas message of June -, the President
charged that the difficulties in that Territory had
their origin in the delay Of Gov. Rceder to com
plete the organization of the Territory. by the
election Of Legislature and the enactment OF a
code Of laws. That is to say, had Gov. Reeder
fastened the census of the Territory distributed 1t
into districts and caused the Legislature 10 be
elected While there were no inhabitants in il, ex-
cept few Government officials and slayeholdlng
missionaries il would not have been necessary to
have resorted to intrusive Missouri mobs TO take
possession Of the polls and dis Of the real voters,
in order to have elected 4 LEGISLATURE, which, IN
the matter Of fixing Shaver! upon the Territory
would have done all that the bogus Legislature did.
In the same special message, Franklin Pierce also
made Il vehement attack upon the Northern emil
grants and societies, whom he accuses of having
- had Curcet 10 the extraordinary measure prop
agsndist colonization of the Territory of Kansas,
to prtrent the free and natnraI aetion Of nS iHhdbit-
ants in its Internal organization How the facili-
tatipg the emigration to Kansas of persons intending
10 make that Territory their home-hat is TO become
inhabitants of it-would operate 80 to prevent the
free and natural action of its inhabitants in its in.
teInal organization" the President does not condo.
scend to explains but he makes it one point of his
charge against Governor Reeder that by delaying
the census and the election OF the Legislature he
gave TO some Of those persons moving into the Ter.
rOry with the design of becoming permanent inhab-
itants the chance to participate in the election of
The Legislature which was to frame code of laws
for the infant Territory, instead of so fJrestaing
matters a. to deprive everybody OF any voice in the
election Of this first and most important Legislature,
except u few Pro-Sayery nteropers who had orig
inay settled in the Territory in defiance of law, and
a few Government officials already Oh the ground.
II is difficult 10 see that in thus acting Gov
Reeder was guilty of any great ofense or how this
circumstance afforded any apology for the ballot
box stufing TO which the MissOurans resorted in
consequence. And whatever might have been
Franklin Pierce's opinion this subject vn the
oath Of January last, when he sent in his extrs
Kansas Message, We produce to-day the most posi-
tive evidence that, shortly before the election was
LED, the President cnttTldlHeu-OT, al Iet>t, eX-
gressed-s very different opinion.
We give in another column, first, the parts Of
Franklin Pierces message Of June "a, in which he
,akes Gov. Reeder 10 task and pounces upon the
Northern Emigrant Aid Society, 10 which We sub
Join letter addressed by Mr.. Thomas Sherwood 10
Gov. Reeder, giving an account Of conversation
az the White House between the writer of that
letter and Franklin Pierce, of which Kansas
the subject. This conversation was held IN the
presence If the Hon. Asa Packer, and took place
n February, l-55, month. therefore, before the
election in Kansas was held. Already, AT that
tine, the partisans Of Slavery. led on by String
fellow and Atchson, We're beginning to complain
bitterly Of Gov. Reeder because he would not allow
himself and lis official authority 10 be- made mere
tools il their hands, and il was these complaints
that formed the subject Of conversation between
Franklin Pierce and Mr. Sherwood, who had
then recently returned from Kansas. Ii
would seem that al TIL, time Mr. Pierce
It'll ebtertsined the idea Of faithfully carry.
irg on. the sluat;er Sovereignty provisions of the
Ksa-s, Neb'ss.s b. H. hsd 20. yeI -bslicl7d