Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-09-13
Governor Shannon.

Governor Shannon.
The President of the United States hav-
ing removed Governor REEDER, after ten
dering the appointment to Mr.. Dawson of
Pennsylvania has conferred the Office upon
WILSON SHANNON, of Ohio. Of the pecu-
liar fitness of Mr.. SHANNON we know
nothing. OF his distinguished ability as
foreign minister, the country is pretty well
advised. The Louisville Journal says:
The whole course of the administration in
relation to the Governorship of Kansas has
been ridiculous and contemplate. Shortly
after the invasion of the Kansas polls by
armed men from Missouri, the Washington
Union, the Administration organ. put
fourth long and most elaborate defence of
Gov. Reeder's whole course and warm
eulogy upon his character. Subsequently,
and in less than two weeks, the Union put
forth an equally labored defense of the con-
duct of the Missourians, involving of course
the strongest censure Of Reeder.
At length Reeder visited Washington,
and remained there for some weeks. Ey-
cry body knew that the Administration, en-
barrassed by the demands of some, that he
should be dismissed and the demands OF 9TH
ers that he should not, was extremely anx-
| ious for him to resign, but he refused. 1t
new turns out that the President undertook
TO bride him to resign. In fact the offers
were decidedly brilliant. The Washington
correspondent Of the New York Evening
Post, leading Democratic paper, and the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune make direct and positive as
ssrtions, founded as they say upon perfectly
authentic testimony, that the President, to
induce Reeder to resign the Gcvernorship
of ~ ansas offered to make him Minister 10
China, and, this offer being declined, pro-
posed to give him the place of ambassador
TO England. Recder replied that he would
resign and take the mission to England,
provided the President would agree 10 the
publication of certain correspondence on
the subject in the Washington papers; but
deemed the conditions, inadmissible, and the
parties separated.
The Administration, however, felt it ne
cessary to get Reeder out of the Governor
ship of Kansas at all hazards, for this was
peremptorily demanded by all his Southern
friends. But it saw terrible obstacle at
the North, for its Northern friends deman-
dad that Reeder should be retained. The
| oniv question between its Northern and its
Southern friends, was whether he should be
removed on account Of his having favored
the freesol party IN Kansas in opposition to
the Missouri invasion. In this sore trouble,
the President resorted to coward'y strata
gem. He wrote to Reeder, calling upon
him to clear up certain charges as to land
speculations in Kansas, giving him TO I'M
derstand, that, upon his failing TO do SO, he
would be removed, The plan was to re-
move him in such a way that the Admins
tration's Southern friends might pretend
that he was removed for his frcesOilism
while its Northern friends might say that
he was dismissed for his land speculatiUns.
The charge, however, as 10 the land specu-
latlons was Just as well known to the Ad.
, mnistration while Reeder was in Washing.
ton as it has been since, for it had been set
forth at great length in the Washington
City papers by Mr.. Manypenny, the Com,
missioner of Indian affairs, and by others
So the land speculations, although they af
forwards served the President in an exigen
ey as pretext for declaring Rceder unfit tc
be Governor Of Kansas, were no objections
while he was itiAWashington, to his being
.npy ointed TO the higher post of Minister tt
China or the still higher one of Minister t
England.
5 After removing Reeder, the Presiden
offered the appointment of Governor O
Kansas to a Mr.. DrwsoH, Hho was in Con
gress and voted for the Kansas and Nebras
e ka bill, but who, as we learn from the De
troit Advertiser, has recently expressed
. his strong regret at having voted for it,
= Dawson declined the honor, and Mr.. VIII
, son Shannon of Ohio has excepted it. Th
d Shannon is the man who went on mission
: to Mexico in 1874 or 1916, and who, upol
Q his official presentationto the Mexican Gov
eminent, in order to explain fully and clear
ly his objects, gaze a copy Of his confden
> tial instructions TO the Msricdn Minister 0
d Foreign .A'airs. Undoubtedly this wa
IS one Of the most extraordinary diplomat
I feats on record. We doubt If anything lik
j it can be found in the diplomacy of eithe
- Talleyrand or Metternich. But why
10 Shannon sent TO a post where eminent d
plomaic ability will find no soopep Ism
i This an extravigant and wholly inexcusabl
/ waste of the diplomatic talent of the cour
d try2
a E3-The Legislature Of Kansas adiourne