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Governor Reeder announces receipt of notice of his removal, and Secretary Woodson becomes acting governor......Aug. 10, 1855 Rev. Pardee Butler, free-State man, set adrift on a raft in the Missouri River at Atchison for preaching anti-slavery doctrine (on his return the following April he was stripped, tarred, and covered with cotton)......Aug. 16, 1855 Delegates elected by a free-State convention at Lawrence, Aug. 14, which repudiated the acts of the State legislature, assemble at Big Springs, and appoint delegates to a convention at Topeka, Sept. 19, to draw up a State constitution and seek admission to the Union......Sept. 5, 1855 Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, takes oath of office as governor......Sept. 7, 1855 Convention at Topeka to take measures to form a free-State constitution and government......Sept. 19, 1855 Free-State men take no part in the election of Gen. J. W. Whitfield, delegate to Congress......Oct. 1, 1855 Pro-slavery party meet at Leavenworth, ask the