Burlington Tri Weekly Hawk Eye

RECEPTION OF GOV. REEDER--HIS ACCOUNT OF THE OUTRAGE ON THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS.
Easton, (Pa.) April 30, 1855.

The Hon. A. H. Reeder, Governor of Kansas arrived here to-day from the West, and met a very enthusiastic reception from his friends and neighbors. He reached Phillipsburgh at noon, and was there met and escorted to the Court House square, in Easton, by a large concourse of the citizens of all parties, accompanied by the Easton Band. On arriving at the Court House, Gov. Reeder was welcomed by the citizens with hearty cheers, and a formal welcome then extended to him, in an eloquent and impressive speech, by Hon. J. M. Porter.

Gov. Reeder, in reply, expressed in feeling and eloquent terms the grateful impression made upon him by the warm and enthusiastic reception given to him by so large an assembly of his fellow citizens. He referred to the reports of fraud and outrage upon the part of Slavery men in Kansas election, and emphatically confirmed the very worst statement of them which had preceded his arrival. He said his opinions on the subject of popular sovereignty had undergone no change, but that the conduct of the people of the border Counties of the North of Missouri had astonished and amazed him by their reckless disregard of all laws, compacts and constitutions; that the Territory of Kansas, in her late election, had been invaded by a regular organized army, armed to the teeth, who took possession of their ballot boxes and made a Legislature to suit the purpose of the pro Slavery party. Kansas was subdued, subjugated and conquered by armed men from Missouri, but her citizens were resolved never to give up the fight for their freedom and the independence of their soil from foreign control or interference. The State of Missouri would be called upon to disavow all sympathy with these border ruffians. If she refused the South would be called on to discountenance her. If the South refuse, the solemn duty would devolve upon the North to take up the matter so that the rights of her sons who had settled in Kansas in the faith of solemn compacts, shall be vindicated and sustained. He declared that the accounts of the fierce outrages and wild violences perpetrated at the election, published in the northern papers, were in no wise exaggerated. He concluded by saying that Kansas was now a conquered country--conquered by force of arms--but that her citizens were resolved never to yield their rights, and relied upon the North to aid them by demonstrations of public sentiment and all other legal means until they shall be fully and triumphantly vindicated.

During his speech Gov. Reeder was frequently and enthusiastically cheered by the large audience present.