The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-02-02
GOV. Shannon.

Gov. Shannon.
We learn that Gov. SHANNON is out in
. letter which is published in the n. Y
Herald, St. Louis Republican, and papers
of kindred nature, in which he vindi-
cafes himself from the foul aspersions
cast upon him by the "Abolitionists. "
and is particularly severe upon the peo-
pie of Lawrence for their truce breaking
propensities.
The Governor is right! Gers. Rob-
ISsaN and LANE should never have show
ed their commissions from the Governor,
nor exhibited the Treaty" which he
entered into with them. Itwas pri0att
arrangement, got up privately between
the contracting parties and "never de,
signed for publication" Indeed the Gov,
ernor requested them personally not to
| give it to the public. saying thatit would
bring the Border Rufians down on him
if they should see it, and indicated it ii
was not done he could go back into camp,
and make just such representations as be
should find necessary in order to per-
suade those he had enlisted in his service
from Missouri to return. He made such
representations as suited his caprice, as
will be seen by the letters from the bor-
der papers which we give on the first
page of to-day's paper, all the time sup
posing that his "Trealy" and Commits
sion were to remain locked up in the
Generals drawer; but to his extreme
modification, and our own regret, We
find the articles alluded to going the
rounds of the "Black Republican" press,
and generally received as genuine. AS
the friend of Gov Shannon in Kansas,
we could not do less than publish those
documents, not however, until they had
surreptitiously found their way into the
Journals we referred to, and would not
have been published then by us only for
the purpose of giving a literal copy,
which we did by copying the original
documents, which were in the hand
aOriting of Gov. SHANNON himself.
We do think the people of Lawrence,
and Gems. Robinson and Lane are highly
censurable for making such a contract
with the Governor. They ought to have
let the Border Rufians come down on
Lawrence, and "wiped the town from
existence" as they said they would do.
More than that: they had no business
accepting Commission from his Excel
lency, as those gentlemen were designed
for destruction, and not for honor. We
will give them credit for keeping The fact
to themselves that the negotiations, which
took two or three days to complete, were
virtually brought to termination during
the first days interview, and that the
discussion was prolonged solely with
the view of the Governors getting as
sistance from Fort Leavenworth to hold
the mob in restraint when the terms ol
the settlement should be made known to
them but when he found he could moi
get assistance from that quarter, con-
scious he had got up whirlwind where
an ordinary gale was only designed. he
called to mind the fact that "stratagems
are justifable in war;" and, hence, mis-
represented little to his Border Ruffians
as to the character of the settlement 10
induce them to return home. Now these
facts we do not gather from Gems. Rob-
inson or Lane, but get them by sort of
intuition which editors are possessed of
by which they are frequently enabled to
arrive at facts by different process from
what other persons do.
Since the border papers have ceased to
defend Gov. Shannon we shall take this
responsibility upon ourself, and trust we
shall do SO to his entire satisfaction. We
feel, however, that we should say to him,
as the negro did to his master, when ap-
pealed to by the latter to vouch for a very
false assertion which the latter had made,
which was almost impossible to recon
cile with nature. "Master, you must
tell more consistent stories in future or |
will not risk my reputation by confirm
ing them for you"
Pennsylvania Senator.
VIM. Bigler, the late Governor of
Pennsylvania, has been elected to the
United States Senate. He is a man of
fair talent, and graduated from a printing