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KANSAS. 
« Is it my husband ? ” as be comes nevermore, “ 0, my soul, 
come not thou into their secrets ! ” 
The appointees of the President in this territory, both judicial 
and executive, have, with two or three exceptions, in every possi¬ 
ble way aided these invasions of the territory, the mobs, the mur¬ 
ders, the downfall of freedom by fire and sword. When Gov. 
Reeder acted out his manliness, and refused to be a tool to carry 
out the nefarious plans of the administration, he was dismissed on 
a charge so false that even the vile minions of slavery denounced 
the President. 
This dismissal did not come, however, until the President had 
urged Gov. Reeder to resign, promising him an appointment upon 
a foreign mission. Then a new governor was appointed. He de¬ 
clined the appointment. Then another was found mean enough 
to accept the appointment, after a dismissal of the former govern¬ 
or under such circumstances, and the refusal to accept of the sec¬ 
ond appointee. And well has he fulfilled the promise of mean¬ 
ness, heartlessness, and perfect servility to the great Moloch of 
Slavery, an acceptance, at such a time, warranted us to expect. 
He made a league with our enemies before he set foot in the ter¬ 
ritory. He brought them against Lawrence, in December, 1855, 
by a tissue of lies, tie made a treaty with his own people, when 
he found his fiat was not sufficient to annihilate them. When he 
feared his own life was in danger, he gave the people of Lawrence 
a right to protect themselves, and him. In May a new horde of 
blood was brought against Lawrence. The protection of this in¬ 
strument of the slave power was implored again and again; but 
the last conference was closed by his demand of the guns being 
given up, because one hundred South Carolinians, ju§t arrived in 
the territory, would not be satisfied without, and the hotel must be 
destroyed for the same laudable reason. Magnanimous governor ! 
What laurels will crown his brow, as his name goes down to pos¬ 
terity ; and how the closing remark of that conference will add 
lustre to them ! 
This brave champion for slavery has dared to tell lone women 
on the Kansas prairies he would “cut their d—d hearts out! ” 
He has given passes to a few men travelling in the territory, show- 
