. Abraham Lincoln; a history . , thatsuch a result would be wrought out, one would havebeen thought a visionary; to have predicted thatto-day a legislature would assemble, almost unani-mously pro-slavery, and with myself for Speaker,I would have been thought mad. The programmehad already been announced in the SquatterSovereign some weeks before. The South mustand will prevail. If the Southern people but halfdo their duty, in less than nine months from thisday Kansas will have formed a constitution andbe knocking at the door for admission. . In thesession of the United States Senate in 1856, tw
. Abraham Lincoln; a history . , thatsuch a result would be wrought out, one would havebeen thought a visionary; to have predicted thatto-day a legislature would assemble, almost unani-mously pro-slavery, and with myself for Speaker,I would have been thought mad. The programmehad already been announced in the SquatterSovereign some weeks before. The South mustand will prevail. If the Southern people but halfdo their duty, in less than nine months from thisday Kansas will have formed a constitution andbe knocking at the door for admission. . In thesession of the United States Senate in 1856, twoSenators from the slave-holding State of Kansaswill take theii* seats, and abolitionism will be for-ever driven from our halls of legislation. Againstthis triumphant attitude Governor Reeder wasdespondent and powerless. The language of hismessage plainly betrayed the political dilemmain which he found himself. He strove as best hemight to couple together the prevailing cant ofoffice-holders against the destructive spirit of. \. ANDREW H. REEDER. IKE U^^AHY OF Tr^ THE BOGUS LAWS 417 HouseJournalKansasTerritory,1855. Ap-pendix,p. 10. abolitionism and a comparatively mild rebuke of Missouri usurpation.^ Nevertheless, the Governor stood reasonablyfirm. He persisted in declaring that the Legisla-ture could pass no valid laws at any other placethan Pawnee, and returned the first bill sent himwith a veto message to that effect. To this theLegislature replied by passing the bill over his veto,and in addition formally raising a joint committee to draw up a memorial to the President of theUnited States respectfully demanding the removalof A. H. Reeder from the office of governor ; and,as if this indignity were not enough, holding ajoint session for publicly signing it. The memorialwas promptly dispatched to Washington by specialmessenger; but on the way this envoy read thenews of the Governors dismissal by the President. This event appeared definitely to sweep away thelast
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