The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-15

the administrator and ITS New Governor
Of Kansas-Troublc I'm the eabinet-The
Premier Indignant.
Our special adyiees from Washington, of this
morning, on the Kansas imhroglio, are de-
cidedly interesting, The late speech of Mr..
Pieree's new Kansas Governor Mr.. Shannon,
of Ohio. on his arrival out at Westport, Mis-
souri, appears to have excited considerable
surprise, modification and trouble in the
Cabinet.
While they were in session, the ether day,
apon the important question, (Mr. Marcy in
the chair) whether we shall OF shall not SO to
war with Denmark rather than pay any longer
the tolls which she exacts of all nations for
the passage of their ships through her Straits
into the Baltic, information is slipped in of
this speech of the new Governor of Kansas at
Westport. Presto, Denmark and the Sound
dues ere laid aside, and Governor Shannon is
taken up for immediate consideration. Our
correspondent describes the scene; and the
reader may fancy the emotions Of Mr.. Pierce,
the smothered wrath Of Marcy, and the low
chuckle Of jeff Davis, when the substance of
not expected one-balf the quantity of such
pork for shilling. Shannon had spoiled the
whole scheme Of his Kansas appointment be-
fore getting into the Territory. He had en-
dorsed the Kansas Legislature and its pro-
ceedings in the lump; and, worst of ALL he
had bolted it out--he, the agent of the ad
ministration--tha he was in favor of making
ell C{afa aud ror ftxy "a
sons withal, when, as it appears, he was in
structed, of all things, to keep still tongue
in his head upon the niger question.
1t is easy to imagine the wrath of Marcy
upon this subject. His policy is to conciliate
the Van Buren, free solers in New York, and
their brethren in other States-they are all
that lie has now left as the nucleus of Marcy
movement for the succession; and being re-
sponsible, in part, for the leading acts of Mr..
Pierce, domestic as well as foreign, he saw at
once that Shannon had made botch Of it.
But upon more deliberate reflection, we can't
say that Shannon is so much to blame, after
all. lie supposed, no doubt, that Reeder was
removed TO satisfy the South and as q peace
Offering to Atchison and Stringfelew; that
INC iuHIul5tIutlou, III tElS TcAuUVul, EGu VIZ
tually approved the dongs of Atchison u
Company, ana had entered into their cepart-
ncrship having signally failed on the free soil
abolition dodge, with Reeder, Thayer d Com
pany. Believing this, Mr. Shannon doubtless
supposed that he was playing the new game Of
Mr.. Pierce, by leading out his trump cards on
the very first opportunity. Besides, the Squat
to Sovereign, Mr.. Stringfellow's paper, had
warned him Of the shoals and quicksands upon
which Governor Reeder had foundered, and
Mr.. Shannon may therefore have thought it
judicious to make a clean breast Of it, and be
done with it. A prudent man will not run his
neck into halter with his eyes open.
But let us say to Governor Shannon, If he
is spared by Marcy, notwithstanding this fttur
pas at Westport, that his policy is to do as lit
tie as he can, aud to be a perfect Know No
thing on the negro question. If he Is con-
frontcd by the Kansas Legislature and the
il" border rnfians, he must plead the ncutrali-
iy Of squattcr sovcreignty--if he is surround
cd by gang Of abolitionists and free soil pro-
pagandists, he is to say that he is instructed
to leave the question of slavery to the people;
and if the two hostile parties come to blows
and bloodshed and civil war, he is to. follow
the example Of the President-kcep out of
harms way and, laws or no laws, let the
sovereign people fight it out among themselves
This is the Pierce and Marcy plan of manag
ing a new Territory; and it is this cowardly
and shutting policy which has brought the
slavery ana anti-slavery squatters in Kansas
to the very verge Of a border war.
As matters now stand in the Territory,
there would be no escape from a border war,
exciting the bittercst animostics between the
two sections of the Union throughout the
whole country, but for the expected interpo-
sition OF Congress in December. If war can
be avoided till December we may expect Con-
gress to interposc to establish peace in the
Territory upon the basis Of the Kansas and
Nebraska bill; for the conservatives in both
houses, We hope and believe, will still have
the power TO enforce it. And as it is the sworn
duty of the President to ''see that the laws be
faithfully executed we may reasonably ex-
pcct requisition upon him touching his NAL
administration of the affairs Of Kansas in
gliding his first dodge to conciliate the aboli-
tionists through Governor Rcedcr, from which
the whole of these border troubles have re-
suited. Mr.. Pierce and the whole Cabinet have
at last discovered that Kansas is destined to
become slave State, and that non-nterven-
lion upon that issue is their true policy. Pity
they had not made this discovery year ago
pity they were not more explicit in their in
struclions TO Mr.. Shannon. What's to be done
for Marcy
GEN HorsToS AND THE ADMINTsrRArIoN-It
appears that Gen. Houston and the admins