The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-02-07
Gov. Gearv.

Legislature, that That party, or the fre-
eating branch of it, are disposed to
get mp quarrel with Gov. Geary in
some form. 1t is reported that the
Legislature has held a secret session,
and petitioned the President for his
removal. Be this as it may. they have
sought, and are daily seeking to en-
broil him in difficulties of some kind.
TEey cannot use him as tool. Their
petty scheme of organizing Demo
cratic party in Kansas, from which all
Free State men, as delegates. were ex-
cfuded, was one of their plots. Z The
appointment of Sherrard as Sheriff
of Douglas county" and the Gov
ernor's refusal to commission him, be-
cause of his notorious bad character,
was another and so it has been and
continues from day to day. They wish
the Governors removal, that they
may get up another invasion of the
Territory.
Tou it is astonishing that any hon.
est man of either party should oppose
Gov. Geary, or desire his removal
No sane mad can wish this unless he
desires the renewal of our Territorial
difficulties. Those who wish to live
on plunder, or who desire to see the
country embroiled in civil strife, may
weli ask for his discharge, but no other
man should do SO.
Gev. Geary. no doubt. has his
faults, like other men, and NAV kaye
committed errors !; but he who has
neither, has only cause to censure him.
Ihat the fre-eaters, who have found in
one man nerve enough to hold them
all In check, should complain, is not
surprising. They had intended last
season to have expelled every Free
otate settler from the Territory. Gov.
Geary interposed his authority between
them and their victims, and the result
Is visible in general quiet. Their only
nope now of accomplishing their vii
iainy is in his removal, and substitut-
ing another of their own choice, and
hence their plots night and day to at
tain this end.
Many Republican presses in the
Northern States are disposed to do
Gov. Geary injustice. They publish
every article coming from Kansas that
speaks prejudicial of him, and are con-
tihuing it, notwithstanding they must
be conscious that the masses of the
people here, the bona tide settlers, do
notapprore Of such a course. There
are few persons who have felt that
they had cause to censure him, and
they have been very bitter in their de-
nunciations of his action, both at
home and through the public journals ;
but we would suggest to all, both let
ter-writers and journalists, whether
their policy is not intended to defeat
the object they have in view. Impair
confidence in Gov. Geary, and in his
desire and ability to protect the hon
est settler from insult and violence,
and they will drive thousands from the
Territory who would otherwise settle
permanently among us. They do more
by diseouraging emigration. Neither
Northern men nor Southern men will
come to Kansas while violence abounds
1t is as prejudicial to the interest of the
South as it is to the North, and more
so. To the settler it is more injurious
than to either, for he suffers all the
peril, is exposed to all the sacrifices
which civil strife imposes, and derives
no advantage. The Republican party
claims that it is their desire to make
Kansas a free State. Let then the
members of that party, nor its presses,
throw no obstacle in his way, nor cons
time to,annoy him with their thrusts
at his official acts, which if better un-
dersteod would be less censured.
The Democratic party should not
find fault, neither should their presses;
for he has saved them from political
defeat, and been instrumental in MAX
ing James Buchanan President. He
has done more; for he has saved the
country from all the horrors Of pro-
tracted civil war, and the final disso-
luton of the Union.
The pro-slavery party, or that por-
ton of it which loves justice and quiet,
should sustain him. They are, in fact,
the last which should be heard utter
ing word of complaint; for of al
persons who need quiet. it is the slave,
holder; he who holds by doubtful ten.
ure an interest in the body of living
human being, from whom he exacts
unrequited toll.
The Governors duties are sufi,
eiently arduous without being required
continually to defeat plot and counter
plot ef bis enemies, those who desir,
to embroil the country again in strife
He has a rigLt to desaaad from th,
conservative, Union-loving men of all
parties, those who desire to give anG
receive equal and exact justice, theil
cordial support. He has claims fol
sympathy in the discharge of his du-
ties upon every American, from the
President to the humblest citizen, and