The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-11-17

We find the following letter from Gov
Shannon in the Ohio Statesman, followed
by the long letter we published from
him in our last issue -
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Oct. 6, '55,l
Shawnee Mission, K. IL
by DEAR COLONEL send you here
with communication copy sent by
me to G. w. Brown, Tie editor Of the
Herald of Freedom. printed in Lawrence,
in this Territory, correcting a long
string of falsehoods he had published in
reference to myself. | feel 50 outraged
and provoked at these ISLANDERS, that ! am
compelled, most reluctantly, TO notice
them = otherwise, ninc-tenths of the
people will believe there is some truth in
them. | do not know whether he viii
publish my letter or not, but would be
glad if you would put it in the Statesman
at as early day as you can. The Herald
of Freedom is an Abolition paper, and
now engaged in the revolution that they
are getting up here. There is one thing
l would wish to impress on the Demo
cratic editors East: toreceive everything
from this Territory with great caution.-
1t is the great factory of falsehoOd, and
materials with which politicians in the
East expect to make political capital. Ii
is the sole business of these papers here
to send on to their employers in the East
whatever is desired for that market.
Iexpect to visit Ohio in November
Yours, DC, WILSON SHANNON.
The Governor dates all his private let
tiers from the Executive Office" thus
giving them an officialcharacter.
"The Herald of Freedom is an Adolf
ton paper" says the Governor. From
this, it seems he is disposed to join hands
with the pro-slavery party in calling sv-
erything abolition which favors the
making of Kansas Free State.
Engaged in revolution" The at
tempt OF the people to get up a govern
ment of their own for self-protection is
stigmatized by the Governor as "revo-
lution.''
SIT is the sole business of these pa
pers here to send on to their employers
in the East whatever is desired for that
Market That assertion of Governor
Shannon's is too mean for the meanesi
man in all the West to enunciate, and
none but Gov. Shannon would have SO
asserted. He must not expect any mer-
cy from our hands while that base innuen-
do remains uncorrected, neither must he
ask for any "favors" through our COL
umns. A person capable of making
such an assertion is fit for the groveling
place Wilson Shannon now occupies.
81 expect to visit Ohio in November. 4"
Yes, and you will stay there /; at any rate
you will never return as the Governor of
Kansas. If President Pierce does not
decapitate you, the Senate will. We
cannot believe that Mr.. Pierce will ever
send so small name as that of Wilson
Shannon into the Senate Chamber of the
United States, and ask the concurrence
IF that body in appointing you to an Of
ice which you have disgraced every mo-
nent since you were appointed to it, In
an egotistical manner you commenced in
Ohio by telling your party there what
you would do on your arrival in Kansas,
and from that time to the present the
ears of the Donkey, without his brains,
have been in the ascendant.
Gov. Shannon is in his dotage, proyi-
ded he was ever possessed with an ordi-
nary amount of intellect, and President
Pierce owes it to the honor of his admin
istration that he be recalled at once. If
the Office was left in the hands of Secre-
tary WooDsoN until the assembling of
Congress no one would be harmed by it,
on the contrary we believe all parties
would be satisfied with his administra-
ton until the new Constitution goes into
effect, and the people have elected their
own officers.