A Territorial Power Struggle

To the Editor of the Puget Sound Herald: Steilacoom, Aug. 18th, 1860. It is reported that Mr. Geo. Gallagher has been removed by Acting Governor McGill from his position of Acting Capitol Commissioner, and this report is confirmed by an advertisement which appears in the Pioneer and Democrat, our contemporary, of W. H. Wallace, as Acting Commissioner. A candid examination of the case will satisfy any unprejudiced person that the Acting Governor has been guilty of a very high-handed usurpation; he has acted without authority of law, and in direct opposition to the will of the people expressed through their legislature. In this, he does not lack a precedent for this course. His master, who sent him out here, is not the sample in Kansas, when he endeavored to force his own arbitrary will down the throats of an unwilling people. Mr. McGill is a miniature example of a tyrant in power who would trample upon popular rights, ignore the will of the people, and thrust upon them by force an odious constitution. He has not the tact that tyrants should possess. He is daily meeting it in the general disapprobation of the American people, with the exception of a few greedy office-holders, who would sell their birthright for the sake of their pay. He will continue to meet it through life by the deep contempt of the honest man, and history will mete out to him the long fate by writing him down a man of no consequence.