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KANSAS. 
requests Gen. Easton to call for the rifle company, at Platte city, 
Mo., so as not to compromise Gov. Shannon. Four hundred men 
from Jackson Co. are now en route for Douglas Co., K. T. St. 
Joseph and Weston are requested to furnish each the same num¬ 
ber. The people of Kansas are to be subjugated at all hazards.” 
Yes! Kansas is to be subjugated at all hazards! and at the 
bidding of a governor who has never yet visited the people of the 
territory, but has entered into league and copartnership with the 
people in the border counties of another state, he being their 
“ tool,” while they find blood and treasure for the accomplishment 
of the designed subjugation. How the memory of such a lofty 
purpose must gladden his days as he treads softly the down-hill 
side of life! 
2d. — Sunday. Last evening a meeting was held, according to 
previous arrangement, to discuss the merits of the new constitution. 
Judge Smith, Col. Lane, and others, addressed the meeting. Quite 
naturally the times in which we live, and the present circumstances 
surrounding us, occupied quite largely the attention of the meet¬ 
ing. 
Several utterly false and distorted accounts of the officers in 
and about Lawrence were read from a Leavenworth Herald 
of the evening before, which so aroused the indignation of 
the meeting that they appointed a committee to collect carefully 
all the facts and have them published. The paper which was read 
also contained the information that Shannon had called out Kich- 
ardson, of Mo., general of the militia. Some incendiary appeals 
from that as well as Independence papers were read. 
A gentleman has just remarked that “ it is the one act in Shan¬ 
non’s course which is perfectly consistent; a Missouri leader 
should have command of Missouri banditti.” 
Dr. Robinson, having been called upon several times to speak, 
also having been called from the hall two or three times, at last 
said, in a plain way, and in brief, that “ It was a time, in his opin¬ 
ion, for acting rather than speaking; that Shannon had placed 
himself in a bad situation. At his bidding all these Missourians 
had come over to help him enforce the laws; but when they come 
