New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-18
PRESIDENTIAL PERFIDY
Revelations Of Franklin Pierce.
ALL ABOUT THE AID SOCIETIES.

We suhoin some documents which cast curious
and highly instructive light Upon each other The
frs, consists of some extracts from President Pierces
special Kansas Message sent TO Congress on the 2ah
OF January last.
PIERCE AGAINST TIE AID. SOCIETIES.
Such Of he public officers OF the Territories ~,
hy the provisions Of the act were TO be appointed BY
the General Government. including the Governors.
were sppontcd and commissioned in due season--the
law having been enacted on the Nth Of May, 1874.
and the commission of the Governor of the Territory
OF Nebraska being dated on the ID gay OF August,
1851 and Of the Territory Of Kansas on the 2Vh dag
of June, 1854.
eipots was that OF directing and experimenting Inc
political organization OF the respective IerruoiieS
The Governor Of Kansas Gov. Reederl was required
TO cause census or enumeration of the inhabitants and
qualified vo;eis Of the several Counties and disucu
If the Territory ~ be taken by such persons and IN
such mode as he might designate and appont 10 app
POINT and direct the time and places OF he'dng ths
first elections and the manner Of conducting them,
both as to the persons to superntend such ee<sons
and the returns thereof 10 declare the number OF the
m,mbers of the Council and House OF Representatives
for Zach county or district TO declare what persons
might appear 10 he duh elected; and TO appoint the
time and place OF the first meeting OF the Legislative
Assembly In substance, the same duties were de-
VOWED on the Governor OF Nebraska"
The Governor Of the Territory Of Kansas, Com
missionod before stated, the 10Th of June 1884,
did not reach the designated seat Ot his GcSernient
until the 9TH Of the ensuing October. and even then
failed to make the first step In Ifs legal Organization
that of ordering the census OF enumeration OF Us In
babtants-un so late day that the election OF the
members of the Legislative Assembly md not tke
place until the Seth of March, 1853, nor lie meeting
Until tle ID C July 1855 so that for wear AFTER tho
Tentary was constituted by the act OF Congress, and
the officers to be appointed by the Federal Executive
lad been commissioned. IL was without complete
Government without any legislative authority, without
local law and of course without the ordinary guar
antics of peace and public order .
The persons and parties whom the tenor OF the
act ~ organize the Territories oiNebraska and hansaa
thw ct, in the encavor 10 impose, through the agency
of Congress their particular views of social ofgasza-
ton in tie people OF the future new States now per-
ceivng that the policy of leaving the Inhabitants OF
such State Ia Judge for themselves ia this respcc was
ireradcaby rooted in the convictions of To people OF
the Union then had recourse IN the pursuit OF ther
general object to the extraordinary measure oi pro.
pncnndist colonization of the Territory OF kansas. 10
nr. vent the free and natural action OF It's inhabrants
in lis internal organization, ana mus 10 nhticpae Z"
10 force the determination OF that question In ths III
chcete State
{" with such views associations wet organized ia
some OF the States, and their purpose was proclaimed
through the Press in language extremely irritating ara
,i,nsve 10 those of whom the coloniss were 70 De-
come the ueghbois. Those designs and acts had the
necessary consequence TO awaken emotions OF intense
indignation in States near to the Territory OF Mansas'
ard especially in the tdjolning state OF "rsoutl'
whose domestic peace was thus most Directly enosn.
pe,ed but they are far from justify the illegal and
reprehensible counter-movemen's which ensued. -.
Under these ineusplcous circumstances me
primary elections for Members # the Legislative AS
senbly were held in most, If not all OF the precincts
at tle time and the places and by the persons desg-
mated and appointed by the Governor, according To
law"
We now proceed to give some evidence IN which
the same President Pierce is represented ~ saying
a. there is no doubt he did say-precisely the opposite
of the quoted statements of his Special Message
PIERCE IN FAVOR or THE AID SOCIETIES
INDErENDEScE, Iowa. Aug. ~, 1870.
Hon. A. II. REFDER-DEAR SIR: Yours OF the 18th
il received la reply state that in the mouth oi Feb
riary 1859 had conversation with President Pierce
in the presence OF the Hon. A.a Packer at the White
House, concerning Kansas Territory and the charges
against YOU of unfair conduct toward the Pro Slavery
party and ofs pecuations in lands. AZ was recently
nom the Territory questions asked Of me which
| answered candidy a. far as had information.
The President in that CREATION, speaking OF you,
said Dat YOU had acted like just, honorable and
hch.mindsd man, and that you must and should be
sustained; that you had taken the same course Us he
would have done had he been in your place lie sad
also Won were only endeavoring to carry out the Kan
sBs. Nebraska bill. He asked me when you intended
to tx the election for Legislators told hm on had
said To me that the election would be heid az soon a.
Won coud oct ready for It, and that would be probably
in the month of March lie replied Is not that too
soon Can the Spring emigration get there IN time
then told him had heard it umored that the election
would take place about Tue 2'th Msfcn ne hiauc
son calculation Of time and travel as TO when The enl-
grants from the East would get there and then SAID bat
i The election as called for 18th March was TOO soon
IIememb.r the conversation well because It made an
impression on me. / had been with You several
ontbs in the Territory, and had often c0nversed WIN
Won concerning the pros poets and destiny OF kansas,
and not word had you said to me to show that
you were in favor Of one party or the other-always
stating that the question must be decided by the actual
settlers of the Territory And when learned that the
President wished tie election b. been later, in order
10 give time to the emigrans from the East to reach
ia. could not easily forget.
dteruired nj the time 10 recoloc il well and state IT
to YOU, which did, as give II row. When we were
eb3ut 10 leave the President said think 1t Is beet
mot TO say sry thing Gboat the conyen ,tIon we have
chad il not beet 10 give the enemies ofGoy eeder
cause TO think that the charges made against him
are of any importance whatever Judge Packer
must certainly recolect this conversation
~ your. truiy THOs SHERWOOD.