Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-03-25
WARREN, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 25
DISQUALIFICATION of Gov. Geary.

Kansas-ResignatiOn of Goy, Geary.
Gov. Geary has resigned. The S.
LENS Democrat publishes an extended
aecoznt of the reason which induced, Oh
rather compelled him 10 resign, and also
publishes his Farewell address TO the
people Of Kansas Territory. The mat
ter is now engrossing the attention of the
Cabinet at Washington. and it is one
which causes the new administration
great embarrassment. What a man
soweth, that he shall also reap. said the
inspired penman.- Egu~lly-true is it.
that a party which soweth corruption,
falsehood, dishonesty and crime, shall
reap a harvest Of exposure. disaster and
defeat. Hitherto, whenever reports OF
The wrongs perperated by the PrO-Sla-
vers scoundrels. in Kansas. upon unof-
FEEDING Free State men, women and
children, reached the ears of the people
of the Free States. the psuedo democracy
made themselves hoarse With cries OF
Republican stories. abolition lies, cleo
iioneeriDg tricks. bleeding Kansas. &c
Now, here, we have the statement OF
apemocratic Governor, a lie long Dem
ocrat, the appointee of President Pieice,
without a single staio of Free SoiIism
upon his garments, a man in full com
munion with the Democratic party
whose proclivities were, and still are al
on that side; and whose interests pecuni
airy, personal and political, all drew him
the same way. who publishes 10 the
world, a statement which not only yerf
6es the truth of the heaviest charge;
brought against the Pro Slavery inya
ders. and their abettors, BY the Repub
lican letter writer's from Kansas. and
he tells of greater oulrages but further
states that the only failure of the Repub.
-lican papers, was, that they did not, and
could not fully represent the atrocities
perpetrated.
When Gov. Geary was appointed By
o President Pierce, he accepted his office
only upon the condition that when the
bogus laws of the rufian legislature
came in conflict with his efforts TO do
! justice to all. and to pacify the territory,
they should be suspended, or annulled.
Mr.. Pierce, after consulting with Bu-
I chsnan, accepted the conditions, and
2 promised to remove Lecompte and the
G oiher officers whose acts had caused he
= civil war. Yet Pierce was false to every
one of his pledges. He and his cabinet
3 pronounced the bogus laws valid, and
the Free State men outlaws.
The Kansas Legislature passed new
laws more atrocious even than the first,
over Geary's veto. in defiance of it. and
declared all resistance to them, punishs.
bic with death. The members treated
him with contempt. One of their crea
lures spit upon him in the Hail of the
Legislature. and the Legislature approx
ed The act. Another attempted 10 lake
bis life. Lecompte was retained ia Office.
and in defiance of Geary. released a
murderer from prison, whom Geary had
committed.
We are no eulogists of Gov. Geary.
for we remember that when he dismiss
ed the Missouri invaders who were found
with arms in their hands, and who had
murdered at least one Free State man
before his own eyes, and placed not a
single man under restraint of any kind.
he imprisoned 1853 Free State men who
had defeudend theil homes against these
armed marauders. He recognized the
election for a new legislature. from which
election all Free State men we're ex
a.cluGed.
When Mr.. Buchanan, in his Inaugu
raj, congratulated the people of the Uni
Ted States upon the settlement of this
question, be either calculated largely
upon their ignorance and stupidity. or he
was grossly ignorant himself. So long
as he, his cabinet, and the Senate shall
persist in calling ~marauding citizens Of
Missouri, Kansas Legislators, and their
acts. the laws of Kansas Territory, just
so long will the territory be the scene oil
strife, anarchy. and blood.