The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-04-11
Re.imatioa of Gov. aazrY.

Since we last appeared before our
readers, Gov. GEARY has resigned, and
a new administration, and new Gov
efHor has been thrust upon us. We
were in Chicago when the news of
Gov. Geary's resignation reached ms.
In mingIing with the people after
learning those facts. We found that
every true friend of Kansas was filed
with gloom on account of his resigna-
tion. The death of the lamented Har-
rison caused ns greater sorrow thro'-
out the North than did the resignation
of Gov. Geary. The spectre of civil
war, which had been seen brooding
over the nation for several months,
seemed to have returned at an unpro-
pitious hour. =
Tens of thousands who had deter
mined to come to Kansas, and were
making preparations to hurry forward,
changed their course, or concluded to
rest until they saw the result.
We confess we participated in the
general gloom, and for q few days al
most permitted ourself to despond.-
.Atno moment in the history of Kan
sas have We felt more oppressed than
at that period. And then the cause
of it.
Gov. Geary came to Kansas with a
firm resolve to learn the facts in our
Kansas difficulties; to know no party
but the country, and to labor to do
Justice between ALL parties. He had
no desire to serve either party as
such; but to redress the wrongs of all
persons, as far as he had the ability.
It became necessary for him to mark
out line of policy. 1T was done,
and he followed it. Ii lay across the
path of psrtisans and political dema-
gogues on both sides, and he has fall
en- between them both. The pro-sla-
very party had learned to fear him.
They desired to get ridof SO powerful
an obstacle to their tyrannical practi-
ces. The leaders of the 6re-eating
wing of that party coveted his lies
blood, and sought every possible op-
portunity to take it. He was too
frank in his statements to suit their
purposes; too unbending in his re-
solves to leave them any hope of ri
tding rough-shod over the rights of
the people.
The administration at Washington
did not sustain him; they did not
throw the strong arm of government
around him, resolved to shield him in
any and every emergency, as they
ought. He had saved his party from
annihilation, and deserved the highest
reward for his labors; yet he got only
a cold recognition from the do minant
party as a remuneration for his sacri
fees in It's behalf.
While the Democratic party were
giving him cold support. the Repub-
lican party-the especial friends of
kansas-seemed laboring, in every
possible way, to embarrass his action.
We need not particularize. but refer
to leading Republican journals, and
their correspondents, in confirmation
of our statement. Faults were mag
niied into crimes of the most heinous
nature. No person who censured him
seemed to consider the manner Of his
appointment, or was willing to apollo
gize for his position.
But JoHS w. GsARY is no loager
our Governor. We hope the people
of Kansas, the bona ttde settlers, will
never have occasion to regret the
change; but we confess ne have some
misgivings and spprehensions that
Gov. Geary, with all his faults, was a
better man for Kansas than his sue
cessor will be.
| We have been censured by warm
personal and political friends for sus-
taing Gov. Geary. They must con-
tinue to eensure, if they will. We
know that the right has NO more devo-
ted friend, or one who will labor hard
Ter, or sacrifice more to make Kansas a
free State than ourself. And we kRoac,
too. that our opportunities of o5serva-
ton enable us to judge better of the
wants of Kansas, and erpeople, than
strangers residing thousand miles a.
way, or those who have tarried with
us only few months in the capacity
of letter writers.
/ The Route to Kansas.
i We are not sure that we may not
have misled Jur Eastern friends who
are en- route for Kansas, by a recent