The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-13

SeruAy, a1u WHICH We p0bu6n AZ tengtn this
is decidedly interesting document
Without doing any serious violence to the
moral courage and independence Of the ad-
minissration, we dare say that We are indebted
for the definite position which Mr.. Pierce has
At length assumed in this business, to the start.
ling message Of Governor Chase to the Ohio
Legislature, and the concurrent proceedings
in that body in behalf Of civil war and dis
union. We have already given cur readers
this belligerent, fanatical and disanion mes
sage of Governor Chase, which, with the ex-
tract we re-pubiish this morning from one of
our Ohio contemporaries, very clearly shows
that the issue at length presented to Mr..
Pierce was positive Intervention or civil war.
The proclamation before US satisfies US that
it was not ignorance Of his duty in the pre-
misses to which we should attribute the appa-
rent Indifference OF our executive heretofore
seems to understand very well, when driven
70 the wall, that he has taken an
oath to support the constitution, aud
that the constitution enjoins it upon him to see
that the laws are faithfully executed"
The Kansas Nebraska bill leaves the ques-
ton of slavery or no slavery in the Territory
to the people thereof. Immediately after the
passage of the act the abolition propaganda
of the North proceeded to organize Joint stock
societies for the deliverance of Kansas from
the slave oligarchy." Armed bands Of aboli-
ton emigrarts were thus raised and despatched
to the seat of war, for the purpose of holding
the Territory, to the utter exclusion of Southern
emjgrants with their slave property. The
slaveholding people Of the border counties of
Missouri became alarmed for their future safety
with this ingathering of active armed aboli-
tionists upon their flank. They resolved to
meet force by force, and proceeded according
ly to action. 1t is needless to recapitulate the
well known details of the subsequent doings
between the abolition expeditionists and the
so-called border ruhians." 1t is enough to
know that between them the popular sove-
reignty doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska bill
has been little better than mockery and a
delusion-t that the law has not been "faithtu-
ly executed and that the President, tor rea-
sons best known to himself has waived his pre-
rogative and his duty of enforcing the Law
upon all parties concerned, until the abolition
Governor OF Ohio takes the field in open defiance
and contempt of the powers at Washington.
As the matter now stands, there are two
Territorial governments in kansas-the gov
eminent under the Kansas Nebraska act, Of
which Wilson Shannon is the local executive
chief, and the abolition propaganda govern
ment, of which General Lane aad the So
called Governor Robson, under the pretence
of new constitution, are the principals. The
first government, it is charged by the adverse
party, is government of the Missouri "bor-
der ruffans;" and the second has been undeni-
ably organized in contempt of the organic
Territorial law, and of the authority reserved
in the law, to the general government of the
Union, including his Excellency the President
of the United States 1t is in the midst of
this condition of things, and with the hazards
impending of an abolition filibustering de-
scent upon Kansas, under the authority of the
Governor and Legislature of Ohio-to say no.
thing of Governor Clark and the Seward le-
gion at Albany-that President Pierce issues
his marvellous proclamation. 1t is at this
juncture that he admonishes al! classes of
flibusters, within and without the Territory,
that he intends to enforce the observance OF
the law-that is, to see that the law is "faith-
fully executed" Why wait all this time !?
Why permit these border troubles to go on
from bad to worse, inflaming throughout the
Union spirit of sectional discord enmity
nd ctrifn M hrnu N {ho ~
general rupture! Was it not easy to foresee
what must inevitably follow those initiative
abolition emigration movements to Kansas =
OF, with the first outbreaks between these faua-
teal adventures and the Missouri borderers,
was it not manifest that it would be the worst
of expedients to sit still and leave the evil
to cure itself? 1t strikes us that had we
the one term principle established as the
law of the Presidency there would have
been smooth and peaceful work in the settle
ment OF Kansas, and in the legitimate determi-
nation of the law of popular sovereignty. Mr..
Pierce has had that difficult task to do, in
reference to a denomination, of ca rying
water upon both shoulders without wetting
himself upon either side. After thorough
drenching from the experiment, he makes a
virtue Of necessity, and proclams his policy
to be the enforcement Of the Law against all
disorganizers within and without the Terri
tory.
Promises. however, are one thing with this
administration, and performances are another.
We await the performance in this case, before
joining in any rejoicings Of the Intervention OF
Mr.. Pierce in behalf of law and order. In the
meantime, we admonish the Kansas .bellige-
rents that they have nothing to fear andnothing
to hope from the black republicans of Con-
gress until they shall have disposed of the
heavy plumber Of the public printing, aud
made some arrangements concerning other
measures for fleeing the public treasury.
With our black republicans, freedom is the