The true Democrat., 1856-03-18

laws
 From the Albany Atlas
 Ihe Presidents Proclamation. - President Pierce has issued proclamation, declaring his purpose to maintain the public peace in Kansas threatened on one side by the Mi sour bor- derers, and on the other by the adherents of mock state organization.
 There Is but one legal authority in Kansas the government organized under the act of Con- gress, in its recent admission of Whitfield as dele gate, recognized. This President Pierce Is bound to recognize
 Even in regard to a foreign power, he would be bound to recognize the de fucto government But the legislature of Kansas is not only the | government de tacto and de jure, but the only one acting under the color of law The pretended state organization is not only nulllty, but it is a usurpation. There is no proof that the movement was favored by the people of the territory. The act or organization furnished no better guaran- tv oi far representation than primary meet ing, when there isno contest. Whatever frauds may have vitated-he election of the legal le- gislature, they were not such as to render revo- lution necessary. Nor has the legislation of the territory been of character to justify revo- | luton. The Outrages of which the legal set tiers of Kansas complain have been contrary to all law. The acts of the border ruf1ians have been against the government of Kansas, not under color of It. What the people want is es- l tabllShcd authority, with the power to enforce it's will
 The President proclaims his purpose to up- hold the legal power of the territory. and to maintain peace therein That is what the people of Kansas and of the Union require of him. Congress, after its recognition of Whit. held, cannot refuse to sustain him in this. Even ] II Mr. Whitfield Is rejected, as is proclaimed in advance Tn certain quarters 1t will be on the ground of illegality or nsuficiency of his cleo ton under the law. And this will itself be a recognition of the law.
 1 There is design to multiply the difficulties growing out of this matter, so as to bring about d civil war. These words, "civil war" have got to be quite familiar in the mouths of pratt ing phlanthropists, who banker after the indul- gence of their bigotted and proscriptve natures; and indicate a design on the part of desperate politicians to infame the agitation to the highest, in view of its effects on the coming election.
 From the Springfield Argus.
 Great complaints have been made by the abolition ard opposition press, that the Presi- dent has not long since interposcd, to prevent the invasion of Kansas by citizens of other states, and we have right, now that he has so fully discharged that duty, to look for appro- val from that quarter. It Is, however, proba- ! ble. now that he has thus interposed that n- | stead of approval, he will meet with abuse and denunciaton from those who have heretofore 1 charged him with dereliction of duty in that respect. Indeed, such is the course of some of these prints, in advance of the publication of | more than a brief and imperfect synopsis of the | document
 The N. Y. Enquirer acknowledges the pro- priety of issuing the proclamation, and the ne- ccsslty for the act-it even approves of its lan- guage and sentiments, but declares 1t does not i naean vlsat it says, and deaouaces the prayer tor l0}tat is not in a' This is a miserable subter- fuge to gratify factious opposition to the con- duct of an upright chief magistrate We quote from the Enquirer:-
 "The Presidents proclamation is a curious document. On its face it is a very fair. digni- fled, and appropriate announcement of execu- tive interference for the purpose of putting an end to a condition of things as dsgraceful to the country as it is perllous to the lives and the interests of those most directly concerned in it. That the President should interpose the federal authority in the afflirs of Kansas, all will admit to be but his duty under the circumstances, and
  his delay in doing so are his political opponents and especially his opponents on the question which has agtated the country since the vr- tua repeal of the Missouri compromise. Nor can exception be justly taken in any quarter to the more important positions assumed in the message.
 That those who either within or without the territory, propose to control its political organ ization by force, and those who combine to re- sist the execution of the territorial laws should be restrained, ,-that interference open and arm. ed, in its affairs by individuals not its citizens, or secret and indirect by individual states, is in violation of the constitution of the United States, all persons u lawfully combining against the constituted authority of the terri tory should be first commanded, and afterwards il necessary, compelled to disperse,-and that immunity from violence, and protection to pro- perty and civil and political rights should be secured to all peaceable and law abiding in- habitanis of the territory; these propositions, and others which are their complements or their corollarics, must receive, in the abstract, the assent of all except professional dsorgan- gers"
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