Meigs County Telegraph

St. Louis, July 24.-The Republican learns that all is quiet in Kansas. Gov. Walker was still at Lawrence with four hundred dragoons, awaiting further action of the people before using decisive measures, but would attempt collecting taxes in a few days.

We clip the above from the telegraphic column of a Cincinnati paper. We presume the same item has been telegraphed from St. Louis to all parts of the Union. The information it contains comes through pro-slavery channels-the Missouri Republican (from which the information is obtained) being the leading pro-slavery journal of the West. Now what is the purport of the news:

"Gov. Walker is still at Lawrence with four hundred dragoons." What is Mr. Walker doing with U. S. troops in Lawrence? "Awaiting the action of the people before using decisive measures." This is not very explicit. What have the people done? or, what are they expected to do? We have read all the news from the territory that we could obtain, and it may be summed up thus: The law organizing the territory declares that the inhabitants of the territory should be left free to regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way. Well, soon after this act was passed, an army of robbers invaded the territory, drove the inhabitants from the polls with pistols and knives, and organized a government of their own. They enacted a code of laws which would have disgraced the most barbarous nation on the face of the earth, and then undertook to compel the inhabitants of the territory, by force and arms, to submit to these laws. Finding the inhabitants of the territory too numerous and determined for their small army, these Ruffians called upon the Government of the United States-"the land of the free and the home of the brave"--the government that had promised the people of the territory the right to govern themselves--we say the Ruffian invaders called upon Government to aid them in subduing the people. "Tell it not in Gath," this government responded to the call of the Ruffians and sent an army to assist the invaders in conquering and subduing the inhabitants of the territory. By standing armies and false promises, the territory has been kept comparatively quiet; but the people have not been entirely SUBDUED--they have never submitted to the tyrannical government of the Missouri robbers. Peaceably and in strict accordance with the organic law, they have organized a government of their own, and they are supporting that government. A Constitution has been framed and presented to Congress. A Legislature has been elected, and local laws enacted. While the people have been cautious not to interfere with the Ruffian government, they are equally determined not to be tyrannized over by the usurpers, or support the Robber government. Gov. Reeder tried to subdue them, and failed. Gov. Shannon tried and failed. Gov. Geary tried and failed. And all these Governors now proclaim that the people are right in resisting the Tyrants. Well, Gov. Walker is sent there. All along his journey, and after his arrival, he flatters the people that he is on their side--that he is in favor of fair play. The people receive him with enthusiasm, and treat him kindly. As far as is consistent with their manhood, they cease their opposition to the government. But Gov. Walker proves a traitor to the people, and his treachery being discovered, his influence is lost. Under the pretence of a movement of troops against the Mormons of Utah, Walker and the Administration have been all summer concentrating U. S. troops in Kansas, for the purpose of making a last and desperate effort to SUBDUE the people of Kansas.

We now come to the immediate cause of the present difficulty. It seems that the Bogus Legislature made a charter for the town of Lawrence, without being asked to do so. The people of Lawrence, not liking the charter, nor acknowledging the authority of the body granting it, refused to organize under it; but made an organization to suit themselves. Under the pretence of preventing this organization, and compelling obedience to the Ruffians, this army is collected by Walker, under the impression that if Lawrence is conquered the balance of the territory will submit. This sham about the city charter, is the most transparent humbug in the world. Nobody cares a straw about the charter. The real object is fairly stated in the dispatch. It is nothing more nor less than HIGHWAY ROBBERY, under the specious plea of "collecting taxes."

"But would attempt collecting taxes in a few days."

What taxes? Why, taxes to buy bread and butter, meat and whisky, for the very Robbers and Ruffians who invaded their territory, drove them from the polls, usurped the government, murdered their neighbors, burned their villages, stole their property, and oppressed them from the beginning - whose pretended government they scorn and despise, and whose usurped authority they set at defiance.

Who ever heard of an ARMY COLLECTING TAXES! A peaceable citizen is surrounded by armed men who demand HIS MONEY OR HIS LIFE! And this is called COLLECTING TAXES!!! We have always regarded it as HIGHWAY ROBBERY! And this is the service that our standing army is made to perform in Kansas!

tragedy, God only knows. Gen. Lane is said to be concentrating the Free State forces for defence. Should the United States troops attack the citizens, civil war will be declared.