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exercise his office, his voice was heard, “ Send it a little colder, 
0 Lord ! ” 
And amid the fearful oaths and unceasing threats of evil, there 
was the same earnest plea: “ 0 Lord, send it a little colder.” 
Vlth. — The different companies were drawn out in lines yes¬ 
terday, and farewell addresses were made them by their officers. 
The Lawrence companies then escorted those from the other settle¬ 
ments a little way out of town. 
The war is over for the present. Yet we cannot hope for any 
permanent peace until the strong arm of an executive, who wiil 
not disgrace his office, be interposed for the protection of the 
settlers, who in good faith came to make homes, rebuilding the 
old landmarks so ruthlessly torn down by the corruption of men 
in power. 
So long as the excitable, brutal men along the borders are 
wrought upon by every incentive which can influence them, by 
such men as Atchison and Stringfellow, so long are we exposed 
to murder, rapine and pillage, at their hands. The sheriff in this 
invasion was prime mover, and upon him rests the chief guilt. 
At Lecompton, soon after the peace, he declared, “ Major Clark and 
Burns both claim the honor of killing that d—d abolitionist, 
and I don’t know which ought to have it. If Shannon had n’t 
been a d—d old fool, that peace would never have been declared. 
He would have wiped Lawrence out. He had men and means 
enough to do it.” Nothing could illustrate better the bitterness 
and treachery of his character, when he accepts the invitation, 
and makes one of the “ peace party ” in Lawrence. 
At Douglas, Stringfellow informed his motley gang that the 
“ thing is settled; ” that “ they are sold; ” that “ Shannon has 
turned traitor; ” “ he has disgraced himself and the whole pro¬ 
slavery party.” 
By the misrepresentations of Jones, Gov. Shannon brought this 
force from a neighboring state, against a peaceable community. 
He saw his error, and entered into a treaty. Vfho ever before 
heard of a governor entering into a treaty with the citizens over 
whom his own jurisdiction extends, having in view their obedi¬ 
ence to the laws ? This treaty states, moreover, that Gov. Shan- 
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