The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-02-22
The Presidents Proclamation.

The following telegraphic abstract Of a
proclamation issued on Monday of last week,
by president Pierce, respecting the Affairs of
Kansas, appeared in the Boston papers yes
terday. 1t is sweeping enough in its warn
ings, but rather indefinite. II is something,
however, to see the President include the bor-
der rutfians, although not so explicitly as
the facts demand Portland Advertiser,
l2th instant. -u. .
The President to-day issued proclama-
ton, which will appear in the Union to-
morrow, setting forth that indications exist
that public tranquility and execution of the
laws in Kansas is endangered by the repre-
hensible acts and purposes, both within and
without the territory, who propose to direct
and control the first political organization
by force that combinations have been form
ed therein to resist the execution Of the
territorial laws, and thus in effect to subvert
by violence all the present constitutional
and legal authority; that persons residing
without the territory, but near its borders,
contemplate armed intervention in the affairs
thereof; that other inhabitants Of remote
States are collecting money, engaging men,
and providing arms with the same purpose
that combinations within the territory are
endeayoring by the agency ofemissaries and
other men to induce individual States OF the
Union to interfere in the affairs thereof, in
violation Of the constitution Of the United
States.
Plans for the determination of the future
institutions Of the territory, If carried into
execution from within the same, will consti-
tute the fact Of an instruction and IL
from without, that of invasive aggression y
and win In either case justify and require
the forciblc interposition Of the whole pow
er of the general government, as well to
maintain its laws as those Of the Union
He commands all persons engaged in unlaw-
full combinations against the constituted au-
thOrity Of the territory Of Kansas to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their respect
i've abodes, and warns all such persons that
any attempted instruction Of the territory
or aggressive intrusion into the same, will
be resisted, not only by the employment Of
the legal militia, but also by that Of any
available force Of the u. s.. troops to the
end of assuming immunity to violence, and
full protection to persons and property, and
the civil rights Of all peaccable and law
abiding inhabitants of that territory. II
any part of the Union the fury Of faction or
fanaticism inaamed into disregard of the
general principles Of popular sovereignty,
which under the constitution are fundamen-
tai in the whole structure of our institu-
tons, bring on the country such dire calam-
nifty rs the arbitrament Of arms in that ter
ritory, ii shall be between lawless violence
on the one side, and conservative force on
the other, welded by the legal authority of
the general government.
The President calls on both the adjoining
and distant States to abstain from unau-
thorircd intermeddling in the local concerns
of that territory, admonishing them that
its organic law is to be executed with impair
tial justice, and that all individual acts of
illegal interference viii incur condign pun
ishment and any endeavOr to interfere will
be firmly withstood. He invokes all good
citizens to promote order by rendering obcd-
fence to the law, TO discouptenance and ~
pulse the counsels Of instigator and disor-
ganirers, and to testify their attachment to
their country, their pride in its greatness,
their appreciation of the blessings they en-
JOY, and their determination that republican
institutions shall not fail in their hands, by
co-openting to uphold the majesty Of the
laws, and to yindicate the anctity Of the
constitution.