Slave-holders would not come, because their slaves would be insecure; and now slave-holders felt that they had small cause to come to fight a battle that was not theirs.
Gov.

Shannon held the scepter of power with a more and more feeble hand.

He was going to resign, and he was not going to resign.

But whether he did or did not resign, the substance of power had already passed into the hands of his secretary, Mr.Woodson, who was hand and glove with his fellows in this conspiracy to make Kansas a slave State.
Meantime Col.

Sumner had been superseded in command at Fort Leavenworth by Persifer F.Smith.Col.