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Updated: May 5, 2025
But as soon as you have proved yourself you may, with a clear conscience, look the world in the face and untie the knot in your kerchief. Jimmie Reeder untied the accusing knot in his scarf at just ten minutes past eight on a hot August morning after he had given one dime to his sister Sadie.
Then he pointed at Aiken and myself. "And what are we to do with these?" he asked. "Do with these?" Laguerre repeated. "Why, what did you mean to do with them?" Reeder swelled out his chest importantly, "If you had not arrived when you did, General," he said, "I would have had them shot!" The General stopped at the entrance to the tent and leaned heavily against the pole.
Father was elected as a member of that body, and took an active part in organizing the first legislature of Kansas, under Governor Reeder, who, by the way, was a Free State man and a great friend of father's. About this time agents were being sent to the East to induce emigrants to locate in Kansas, and father was sent as one of these agents to Ohio.
The semi-circle spread out and lengthened until it formed a ring, with Heinze and Reeder, and Aiken holding my coat, and myself in the centre of it. I squared off in front of the German and tapped him lightly on the chest with the back of my hand. "Now, then," I cried, taunting him, "I call you a coward to your face. What are you going to do about it?"
For a moment Aiken stared at him helplessly, and then drew in a quick breath. "I don't know where they are," he said. "The Panama arrived two days ago, but when I went to unload the guns Captain Leeds told me they had been seized in New Orleans by the Treasury Department. Someone must have " Both Major Reeder and the officer interrupted with a shout of anger. "Then it's true!" Reeder cried.
Within ten days Charles Sumner had been struck down in the Senate Chamber, and the town of Lawrence sacked by the guerrilla posse of Atchison and Sheriff Jones. Ex-Governor Reeder, of that suffering Territory, addressed the citizens of Bloomington and the earliest-arriving delegates on the evening of the 28th, bringing into the convention the very atmosphere of the Kansas conflict.
Each was schooled in the principles of swimming, diving, catching, passing, scoring, interfering, tackling and breaking, until these points had been thoroughly mastered, and only then did the team practise begin. But again, no player was allowed in unprepared. Reeder instituted blackboard practise and saw that every one attended it.
In spite of their borrowed titles, I had smelt out the civilian in Reeder and had detected the non-commissioned man in Heinze, and just as surely I recognized the general officer in Laguerre. So when he looked at me my heels clicked together, my arm bent to my hat and fell again to my trouser seam, and I stood at attention.
Ex-Governor Reeder was in attendance on this committee, supplying data, pointing out from personal knowledge sources of information, cross-examining witnesses to elicit the hidden truth. To embarrass this damaging exposure, Judge Lecompte issued a writ against the ex- Governor on a frivolous charge of contempt.
The Convention adopted the first platform of the Free State party and nominated ex-Governor Reeder as its candidate for delegate to Congress. For the first time the hard-headed frontiersmen who came to Kansas for honest purposes spoke in plain language. The first resolution settled the Slavery issue. It declared that Slavery was a curse and that Kansas should be free of this curse.
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