Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-09
Gov. Geary and Kansas.

We gave in our paper of week before
last, from the Missouri Democrat, a state
ment from Gov. GEARY in regard to
Kansas matters. The Pro-Slavery papers
are trying to break the force of that state
ment by claiming that it is not correct
Gov. GEARY it seems has not hesitated
to make the same statements else
where that Le made in St. Louis. We
copy the following from the Washing
ton Correspondence Of the ". Y. Eoea-
ing Post as in full corroboration of the st.
Louis Democrat
WASHINGTON, March 22, 1851.
Gov Geary, of Kansas, with his Secre-
tary, DR.. Gihon, arrived yesterday after
noon at Wizards and is now the lion of
the city. During the whole evening his
room was thronged with visitors. l there
fore postponed my visit till this morning,
when found the Governor in bed, and
had something of conversation with him.
A six months residence in Kansas has had
a very marked effect upon his health and
appearance. His face is now adorned with
IL full dark brown beard and whiskers, and
bis high, prominent forehead, and his
sharp-cut handsome features are blanched
with palor that tells of ill health, over
exertion and official cares.
In reply to my inquiry why he resigned
after so brief a term of service, he said,
among other things, that he had failed to
receive from the late administration the
support of money, military aid, and that
general cooperation which had been pro-
missed him on his appointment. He was
in fact, entirely stripped of the power to
which, as an executive officer, he was enti-
tied. The territorial Judiciary was against
him, and when he had complained of Judge
Lecompte, no removal of that functionary
had followed. President Pierce, whose
private purposes were favorable, he sup
posed must have been overruled by outside
influence, and had taken the half way mea-
sure of nominating successor, without su-
preceding the incubent. The interference
of Lecompte for the release of Hays, who
was charged with the murder of Bufum,
was an act warranting his removal from
office; but it was not the only reason for
the federal Executive. Judge Lecompt
would not attend to his duties, and while
cases, ofmurder and outrafie, not 10 speak of
civil cases were constantly arising, requiring
judicial consideration, he would not hold bis
term for more than two or three weeks in
six months. At the present time; the terri
torial court stands adjourned from last Oc-
tober till May next. Prosecutions and ar
rests offree state prisoners would be dis
patched with all speed, to the neglect of
great many other criminal cases, and of all
evil business of the territory.
Gov. Geary found that, while he arrest
ed only free state men-for whom alone,
on his arrival, warrants had been issued
he was a very popular Governor; but when
he came TO try the same process on po-
slavery offenders, it was different thing;
and one of the federal officers in Kansas
had openly declared in public meeting that
the laws were intended to act on "aboli-
and not on the claw and or
der party, as it is termed. The Governor
facetiously remarks that, by sort of un-
written law of the territory, every man born
north of Mason and Dixon's line is an sab
olitionist." No matter how much nor at
how much cost a northern ''national'
Democrat may have exertcd himself for
his party, and for the rights of the South,
if he enters Kansas and attempts n flir and
impartial course, he is pronounced at once
m .'abolitionst."
In reference to the case of Sherrard, the
Virginian, he intimated that full and au-
Ihentic exposure of the facts in regard to
his character and doings would reveal the
political objects of those who were now ca
nonizing his memory.
A teaspoonful of coperas dissolved in