KANSAS LAWS — GOV. SHANNON. 
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“ Sec. 18. No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding 
slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this ter¬ 
ritory, shall sit as a juror on the trial of any prosecution for any 
violation of any of the sections of this act. 
“This act to tak6 effect and be in force from and after the 
fifteenth day of September, a. d. 1855.” 
Several meetings have been held, taking this matter into consid¬ 
eration, and much talk had in reference to holding a general con¬ 
vention, with the view of forming a state government, and asking 
for admission as a state at the next Congress. 
12 tk. — It rained pouringly all last night, and without ceasing 
to-day. Mr. D.’s house, down on the street, was struck by 
the lightning last night, and one corner of the roof torn off by the 
fluid. Mrs. D. was alone, save two little children. ‘These were 
stunned by the shock so that they returned no answer to the 
mother’s repeated call upon them to speak. The wind came in so 
furiously through the open dwelling, that she was not able to keep 
a light long enough to assure herself whether they still lived. 
Thus the weary night passed away; the storm raged without, and 
many conflicting fears and anxieties within. 
The officials at Washington, with President Pierce as their 
nominal head, have seen that in Gov. Feeder the whole people of 
the territory have an impartial friend —have seen, too, that he 
follows to the letter the law under which he acts as governor. 
They are no less determined now, than at the time of the repeal 
of the Missouri compromise, to force slavery upon this fair land, 
and have, therefore, resolved to remove him upon a false charge 
of speculating in Kaw lands. He has repudiated the acts of the 
Legislature because of their holding their session in violation of 
the organic act. Now a creature will be sent here in the form of 
a man, but ignoring all manliness, and selling body and soul to do 
the infamous work of the slave power. No man of integrity and 
sterling honesty can long hold this office, as he will displease both 
the people of Missouri and the federal head. 
13th .-—It was beautifully clear this morning, but rain 
was soon falling. Friends from Boston arrived in the evening, 
