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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
cutives — has stood forth undisguisedly and boldly as the special and zealous champion of the Southern Aristocracy. Let us briefly review the history of its most prominent officials in Kansas--the unerring mirror of its secret aims and hidden aspirations. Mr. Reeder, the first governor, a conservative among conservatives — a Democrat to whom the Fugitive Slave Law, even, was neither repulsive in character nor in any feature unconstitutional — a devout worshipper at the shrine of Squatter Sovereignty and of its high priests Messrs. Pierce and Douglas--was promptly disgraced and dismissed from office, as soon as it was found that he would not become a servile and passive instrument of iniquity in the blood-stained hands of Atchison and his Missouri cohorts. I may mention here that after Reeder was dismissed, Kansas, until recently — as long as the pro-slavery party had the remotest hopes of success — was permitted to have only two even nominally Free State officers; one of wh