New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-10
THE REMOVAL OF SHANNON.

Among the dc cumentsfr ,m Kansas, publlshed in
THE TRIBUNE of Saturday is petition to the
president, TO which signatures were being put in
all the principal settlements of Kansas, for the
immediate removal from Office of the titular Gov
ernor shannon. Never was there more reasona-
ble request; and all the circumstances OF the case
considered. we cannot but entertain not merely
hope, but some expectation that it msy be granted
OF course, we should not expect this admins
tration TO remove any man from office the ground
merely that be ia a knsve and had grossly abused
his official authority for the promotion OF mere
party ends 1t would be outrasing every sense Of
propriety to expect President Pierce and bis Cab
met to remove men from Office for wha: both
President and Cabinet have regularly made the
controlling rule of their whole political conduct.
Tn Giving aid and comfort TO the border rutfians'
Shannon ha. done no more than was expected Of
him. 1t WAS precisely to make room for super
seryicesble knave of this sort that pretenses we're
found for removing Reeder, and it was because he
WAS known to be just such ready tool that the
place was given to Shannon. But then, beside
being a knave, Shannon has proved himself to be
both blunderer and fool; and that, we take it,
- more than the President bartained for, and
affords him q fair ground for removal 1t wal,
no doubt, the most particular part Of Gov.
Sbannon's private instructions to give aid and
comfort to the border rufisns He was
uuoue stionably commissioned not as Governor Of
Kansas but az leader and Governor of the Missouri
invaders. Hence his famous speech at Westp ort
in which addressing an audience Of border rufisns
assembled in Missouri town, he took care to in
dorse before he entered the Territory act of what
he properly styled their Legislature If the Legis
Isture TO which he thus conse n.ed TO act as mer
make weight and sppendage, was theirs as Shan
non confessed it wa,, Of course this party indorse
ment affords abundant evidence that the Governor
was theirs also. But though he was theirs, body
and soul, at the same time time be belonged, also
to President Pierce nor was he justified, out of
zeal for bis border friends, in embarrassing his
friends at Washington as he has done 1t was all
very we'll to encourage the Pro Slavery men in
brow beating and annoying the Free-Stste settlers
it was all very well to send a Missouri Post
master, invested at the same time with the
dignity of non re sident Sheriff Of Kansas to arrest
such of the Free State settlers as night give In
convenient testimony against any Of Shsnnon's
frie, ds and protegds bat what rigb had Shannon,
just at this delicate moment to put all the Free
States into ferment about uAthng, and to expose
the Pre- sdent to odium in the South, az no! being
prompt ea ough in responding to Shannsn's tele-
graphic calls for regular troOpsl
Here, it seems to vs., is ample reason for getting
rid Of an unucky blunderer, equally dangerous to
biz friends a. to his enemies and not withdrawing
the report from Warrington that the name Of
Shannon is already before the Senate for csn6rms-
ton, We trust the President, even before the ar
rival of the petition from Kansas, will withdraw a
nomination which, as recent events prove is 20
utterly unfit to be made