Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-10-18

But, Samuel quotes from the Kansas Herald
to show that Shannon never made the speech;
Jet him quote from the "Squatier Sovereign"
in reference 20 the same speech. Let him
quote from the Westport paper. Let him
quote from any of the papers in the neighbor-
hood Of Westport.
But, says Samuel, "he is represented as
endorsing all the acts Of Kansas Legislature.
This he did not do" Well, all we know
about it is that Mr.. Gressinger published
what he said was correct report of Shan
mons speech in which occurred the following
language:
"Your Legislative Assembly, that has just ad.
journed, has provided code o laws Tor the Terri
tory II Is my duty as an Executive officer and the
duty of every good citizen, 10 abide those laws so
long they remain in force. To maintain the
Constitution of the United States; the organic law
OF the Territory and the laws passed by the Lcgis.
lauve Assembly, in conformity thereto, is an obli
CATION imposed on me by oath of Office well by
the duty owe to the Territory as Citizen in COM
mon with Others"
II that does not "endorse the acts of the
Kansas legislature"-th English language
does not furnish woids to do SO.
Again, Samuel, with his characteristic Bit
terness, calls this speech can abolition DUG
BEAR" We defy Samuel to furnish a report
of that speech written for an abolition paper!
But Samuel wakes eloquent; hear him.
"Now this is a cLTScHER, coming from the
reliable source it does, "strong ;pro-slavery
paper" aad must be considered disnterested
testimony. 1t crushes the life blood out of
the abolition BUGBEAR, got up by the min
ions of the "Emigrant Aid Society,"" clothed
with supernatural horrors, and paraded thro'
the country to frighten the timid and time
serving into the support of their sectional
and revolutionary schemes--and brands with
eternal infamy the hireling calumnators, who
have focked to Kansas to disturb the peace
of its citizens and msrepresent the senti-
ments of the newy-appointed Gov, before
he hat set his foot upon the soil of Kansas
Phoebus! what dizzy fight!
Don't, Sumuel-you might hurt the Emil
grant Aid. Societys feelings!
But seriously, we will be pleased to learn
that Gov. Shannon never made the Westport
speech, and will glaoly publish all evidence
for or against. AS the matter at presen,
stands the weight of eyid d,nce is against the
! Governor, and he-e is little more of the
same Sort
The S.Louis Democrat publishes Shannon's
letter to Col. Medary, and makes the follow
ing remarks:
ave have no disposition, as we have al
ready stated, to put words in Gov. Shannon
mouth that he did not utter; and although We
are assured by our reporter that the speech a:
before given by US was correct, yet we atiort
the Governor the benefit of his own denial to
which he is certainly entitled. We shall
forthwith take measures to have the matter
thoroughly investigated at Westport, ant
shall then either present the proofs or with
draw the statement"
The Kansas correspondent Of this same
paper, who reported Shannon's speech, hear
ing that its authenticity had been deniet
wrote to the Democrat as follows:--
II not ced in the Republican. of Octobe
lst, that Mr.. III, c, p its Westport CORE
spondent, alleges tina! my report of Gov
Shannon's speech is incorrect. am glad o
this denial AS soon as arrive at Westpcr
! shall send you proofs which, have no doLb
will set this matter at rest, and prevent thu
Governor, the Union, or Journal Of Gem
merce from denying or 'suspecting' the ac
curacy of any OF my subsequent reports.
was waiting for an official, or semi-otficia
denial of my statements before | advanced
my proofs. At present will merely state
from my own personal knowledge that III
c, p did not hear one syllable Of Gouerno
Shannon's SPEECH, and ,oas not euen in The cit
for al least half an hour after It's conclusion
and that my report of it was read in manu-
script by several Of thesmost ultra pro-saver
citizens of Westport, & pronounced correct.
The Governors friends, Samuel, in pai
ticular, will bear in mind that they have t
deal with men in this matter, and men too
who say nothing but what they are willn
to stand up to. The Gov. is in tight plac
and further revelations will be looked 70
with iutprast