Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-12-16

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exaggerated fof purposes Of political asi. |
tation elsewhere. The numberand graz
vify OF The acts of violence have been
mhgliiicd partly By s;a:emsilts entirely
Untrue, and faltfyb fef:iiase1 aceoalts,
of same rumofs or facts. Thus thei
iIfrrf.ory has been seemingly filed with
e$tfcime violence, wien eswhoie aniouhtt
ofsuch. acts has not been greater stllanA
What oc6 asionally passes before Us in sin
de cities to the Tesfet Of all good 'clti- !
zens, bnt swithou. being regarded rs of
general on permanent political conse.
Imputed irresularities in the elections
had Id Kansas, like occasional irregular
tiles Of the same description in the S ates,
were beyond the sphereof action Of the
Executive! But incidents of actual yio-
.lence erjef organized obstruction Of law,
pertinaneiously renewed from time To-
time, have been met as they occurred, by
such means as were available and as the
circumstances required and nothing of
this character now remains to affect the
general peace ofthe Union. The attempt
Of a part of the Inhabitants Of the Terri
tory to erect a revolutionary government,
though sedulously encouraged and sup
Piled with pccuniary aid from alive agents
OF disorder in some of@1he States. has
completely failed. b Bodies ofarmed men,
foreign to the Territory, have been pre-
vented from entering or compelled 10
leave. it. Predatory bands, engaged III
acts of rapine under cover of the existing
political disturbances, have been arrested
or dispersed. And every well disposed
person is now enabled once more to de-
vote himselfin peace to the pursuits Of
prosperous industry, for the.'prosecution
Of which he undertook to participate in
the settlement Of the Territory. ~
1t affords me unmingled satisfaction
thus toannounce the peaceful condition
of things in Kansas, especially consider
ing the means to which it was necessa-
nv TO have recourse for the attainment Of
The namely, the employment Of a
part of the military force Of the United
States. The withdrawal Of that force
from its proper duty Of defending the
country against foreign foes or the sava-
ges Of the frontier, to employ it for the
suppression of domestic Instruction, is,
when the exigency occurs, a matter of
the most earnest solicitude. On thisoc-
easion of imperative necessity, t,has been
done with the best results and my salts
faction in the attainment Of such results
by such means is greatly enhanced by
the consideration that, through the wis
bdom.and energy Of Che present executive
1of Kansas, the prudence, firmness, and
vigilance of the military officers on duty
there, tranquility has been restored with
,tout one drop Of blood having been she'd
in It's accomplishment By the forces Of
the United States: r = >s... Z
The restoration Of comparative tran
guilty TO that Territory furnishes the
means of observing calm y and apprecis
/ ting at their Just value the events which
have occurred there, and the discussions
of which the government OF the Terrific
Try has boon the subject. :.
We perceive that controversy concern.
| ing its future domestic institutions was
inevitable that no human prudence, 10
form oflegislation, nc wisdom on the part
Of Congress, could have prevented it.
Its idle 70 suppose that the particulAr
provisions Of their organic law were h:&l
cause of agitation. Those provisions
we're But the occasion or the prctext Of an
agitation which was inherent in the ma
ture of things Congress legislated upon
the subject in such terms as wsre most
consoHant with the principle of popmlar
sovereignty which underlies our govern
ment. 1t could acknowledgement other
wise without doing violence to another
great principle, = of our institutions. the
imprescriptible right of equality Of the
several States. ,..
We perceive, also, that sectional IN
terests and party passion have been the
great impeachment to the salutary opera
ton ofthe organic principles adopted and
the chief cause Of the successive distur- |
Dances in Kansas. The assumption, that
because, in the organization of the Terri !
tories Of Nebraska and Kansas, Congress
abstairred from imposing restraints upon
them TO which certain other Territories
had been subject, therefore disorders oc-
CURED in the latter Territory, is emphat-
tically eontradicted by tbe<fact that none
have occurred in'the former. Those dis
orders were not the. consequence in Kan
sas of the freedom of self-gorernment
conceded to that Territory by Congress,
but of unjust interference on the part of
persons not inhabitants Of thee. Territory. |
Such interference, wherever it has exhib-.
tied itself, by acts Of insurreclionary char
acter, or redistribution to process oflaw,
has been repelled or suppressed by all the
means which the constitution aud the
laws place in the hands of the Executive.
In these parts Of the United States
where, by reason of the infamed state |
Of the public mind. false rumors and mis-
have the greatest currcn-
cy. it has been assumed that it was the I
duty of the Executive not only TO suppress
discretionary movements in Kansas,
but also to the regularity Of local cleo,
lions. Itneeds little argument to show
hat the President has no such power
All gorernmentin the United States rests
substantially upon popular lelection.-i
The freedom of elections is liable to be
Impaired by tie intrusion of unlawful