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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., Slavery in Kansas. (search)
n 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 featurehe 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 Stnt in their judicial appointments for Kansas. Lecompte, Elmore, and Johnson were the first supreme judges. Judges Elmore and Johnson were discharged, with Governor Reeder, nominally for land speculations; but Elmore, really, as he himself declared in his letter to Mr. Cushing, in order that the dismission of two acknowledged Fr<