James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States.

Mr. Shannon, his successor, who signalized his disembarkment by proclaiming, from the door of a common tavern in Westport, that he was in favor of slavery and “the laws” of the Missourians, as represented by the Shawnee Territorial legislature, was retained in office and sustained by the party, although notoriously incapable and a sot, until the record of his innumerable misdemeanors and follies, official and personal, endangered the success of the Democracy in pending State elections; or, rather, until he resolutely and publicly declared at Lecompton that he would not any longer be deceived and used by the ruffians.

Mr. Woodson, the Secretary of State, thrice the Acting Governor of Kansas--a man who never faltered in sustaining the Missouri mobs — who hounded on the Carolina and Alabama robbers to the sack of Lawrence and the desolation of the Free State settlements — was retained in office, and with honor, until, on the acceptance of Geary, it was necessary to replace him by Dr. Gihon, whose appointment that gentleman insisted on as an indispensable “condition precedent” to it. Was Woodson dismissed? No! the faithful — the unfalteringly faithful — are never so disgraced; except, indeed, at rare intervals and for a brief period only. He is now one of the chiefs of