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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 lovers of law and order to obey the laws of the first legislature, and declare it treason to oppose them......Oct. 3, 1855 Free-State party elect A. H. Reeder delegate to Congress......Oct. 9, 1855 Free-State constitutional convention meets at Topeka, James H. Lane president......Oct. 23, 1855 Charles W. Dow is killed by Franklin N. Coleman, pro-slavery man, near Lawrence, on the 21st. Free-State men meet at the scene on the 22d, and Sheriff Samuel J. Jones arrests Jacob Branson, with whom Dow had lived, for taking part. At Blanton, Branson is released by free-State men. A meeting is held at Lawren