The true Democrat., 1856-03-04
F Proclamation.


 Whereas indications exist that public tran guilty and the supremacy of law ill the territo Try of Kansas are endangered by the reprehen- SlbIe acts or purposes of persons, both within and without the same, who propose to direct and control its political org anization by force It appearing that combinations have been form. ed therein to resist the execution of the territo. rial laws and thus, in effect, subvert by vio- lcnce all present constitutional and legal autho rlty: It also appearing that persons residing without the territory hut near its borders, con- tenn plate armedlnterveutiOn in the affairs there ot: It also appearing that other persons, inha. bltantS of remote States are collecting money engaging men, and providing arms for the same purpose: Al d It further appearing that combi- nations within the territory are endeavorng by the agency oI cmisSaries and otherwise to ill., duce individual States of the Union to inter. veme in the affairs thereof, in violation of the constitution of the United States: And whereas all such plans for the determi- nation ot the future institutions of the territory If carried into action from within the same. will constitute the fact of nsuyrection and, if from without, that of invasive aggression, and will IT either case, justify and require the forcible lnterposltlon ot the whole power of the gene raj government, as well to maintain the laws of the territory as those of the Union
 Now, therefore, l, Franklin Pierce President ot the United States do issue this my procla- nation to command all persons engaged in un. lawful combinations against the constituted au- thorty of the territory of Kansas or of the United States to disperse and retire peaceablv to thelr respective abodes, and to warn all such persons that any attempted instruction in said territory or aggressive intrusion into the same will be resisted not only by the employment of the local militia, but also by that of any avail Iabe forces of the United States; to the end of assuring immunity from violence and full pro- tecton to the persons, property, and civil rights of all peaceful and law abiding inhabitants of the territory
 If in any part of the Union the fury of fac ton or tanaticism, inhamed into disregard of the great principles of popular sovereignty which, under the constitution, are fundamen- tai Tn the whole structure of our institutions. is to bring on the country the dire calamity of an arbtrament of arms in that territory, it shall be between lawless violence on the one side and conservative force on the other, wielded by le- gal authority of the general government.
 call on the citizens, both of adjoining and of distant States, to abstain from unauthorized lntermeddlng in the local concerns of the ter ritory admonishing them that its organic law Is to be executed with impartial justice; that all individual acts of illegal interference will incur condlgn punishment; and that any endeavor to intervene by organized force will be firmly with stood.
 l invoke all good citizens to promote order by rendering obedience to the law; to seek re- medy for temporary evils by peaceabe means; to dlscountenance and repulse the counsels and the lnstigatons of agitators and of disorganzers. and to testify their attachment to their country, ther pride in its greatness, their appreciation of the blessings they enjoy, and their determina- ton that republican institutions shall not fail in their hands by cooperating to uphold the ma Jesty of the laws, and to vindicate the sanctitv of the constitution.
 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United otates to be affixed to these presents
 Done at the city of Washington, the eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord SEAL one thousand eight hundred and fiftv-
 six, and of the independence of the Unit
 ed States the eighteth.
 FRANKLIN PIERCE. By the President:
 w. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.