New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18

nose- TO show wa the only valid election held in the
Territory for that purpose. a. H. hELDL"'
o." B0hfrgtoH, Feb u, 1856
PRESIDENT PIERCE'S MESSAGE IN KANSAS.
LEAvESwoRrH CRY, X. T., FEB. 4, 1856.
To me Eder 2 The hi';ou1i De"'s S.I uo,.o,o Of
President Pierce in relation 20 kansas affairs. There
| il great rejoicing in Platte County. The General
Message pleased them: il caused them TO pronounce
Pierce sound TO the core but this Special Message has
| delighted them beyond expression by its promises OF
inaCton, and the unbusligg etIontery with wnlch II
! throws the odum Of the outrages practced here on
the peaceabe citizens of the Territory who endured
them. We, the squaters Of Kansas, guilty OF no Oh
Tense save submitting Illegal proceedings which we
have not vet the strength to repe are placed IN the
position OF revolutionary bandits, while the oorderer5
who have shot down our citizens, elected our legl7
latOrs and threatened us with determination, are al
| luded TO in terms of gentle reproo diluted with an
| excuse for their selt-dctensire conduct.
| came TO Kansas Pro-Savery man; but, educated
TO respect the law and soon IL breaktrs-no matter
what their excuse-I did not, could not long remain IN
their ranks No true Southern gentleman can remain
in such party thet which styles itselfthe Law and
Order party of Kansas, unless he happens to be an OF
hcehOlder or 10 have invested al his calNdI III lue
/ power of these men.
When read this special message OF the President
| Thanked God was Southerner. No Southern man
would be mean enough to bctTay his constituents a
Pierce has betrayed bis Northern brethren dared TO
libel them as Pierce has lbeled the peaceabe, intel
gent conservative New-England emf grants in Kansas
| President J.
| TO create political capital for bis political opponents
If bis cOurse during his occupancy Of the Presidential
chair does not sustain this proposition, this special
| Message will empty demonstrate the tact. tie eaoo-
rstey destroys the force reutes his fayorite theo
ries-knocks SQuatter Sovereignty into al extremely
cooked hat by declaring its exercise revolutionary and
there is hardly one historical statement in his Message
| which cannot be disproved by ncontroyerlble
will rot criticse his theories; but wish briefly to
review his remedial measures ard few OF the state
| me Is ne advances.
Speaking of our affairs, he says:
In such the Path Of duy for ihe Executive pAa
Taifed Be aulg eIefd Il they be opposed in the
the Marshal sy public force OF the United States which hap
he pose oomiafus snd that do suffice antsn order,
en- be nay cell orth the militia Of one or more states Tor that
object Hoy ir the me object Any OF hs land or naval
tie United States So also the obstruction be to the
laws OF the Territory be duly presented him
Of The land naval force Of the United states
he rsI std bemssIve, unable 10 Tepe or with
they Will be entitled and upon The fact being tuy
aotaHes they sha most certainly receive the all Oh me
But it not tie duty President Of the Uate States
to rouHer iHteJo"oH 5ytoree TO gete ne RTHy o. ees
tons either il STATE or Territory To do 50 would be sao'eT
siye of public freedom" &c.
Do not the laws of the United States prohibit Illegal
nvasions Is il not the duty then of the Executive
TO preserve the putty Of elections in Territory, IN
which ballot boxes have repeatedly been desecrated
and destroyed, Judges of elections assaulted and ex
relied and actual residents not only prevented from
voting but threatened and maltreaedl How can this
result be attained except by stGtOning in Kansas
military force sufficient to protect it, citizens The
President says that upon ne fact being duly ascer-
tdned he will prevent Illegal invasOns for the purpose
of controlling the election. OF course he will The
President, doubtless is quite equal to the hercuean
undertaking of locking the stable when - 1t l. duly
asoertaned" that the horse has run away Alter an
election controlled by the Blue Lodge" he will pre-
serve its purity-and hOtg' By preventing similar
outrages in the future by sationng force to protect
the people? Certainly not for the message says;
II is not the duty of the President 70 volunteer IN
"teTosion by force to preserve the purity of cleo
tons either in State Territory. To do would
90 be subversive of public freedom
The President says that Pawnee City was not a
town but town site only and nsnuetes that there
were accommodations there for the ba-ons of Kan
sas. The President is nisin6rmed. There were more
buildings at Pawnee than at the Shawnee Mission,
and il more eligible place OF meeting IN every
respect save one This solitary objection frankly
avOwed in q document published by the barons. In
the report credentials II think 1t was that august
body stated that the Shawnee Manual Labor School
was nearer their constituents. The Shawnee Mission
il only two miles from hissourl-Pawnee City over one
hundred.
When the barons went to Pawnee City they refused
TO enter the houses Rather than subserYe what they
conceived TO be, and which probably was Gov.
ReeGers interest, they reposed their legislative limbs
in wagons instead of beds, rRtt{ begaR 10 ram
heard settler in that district describe, with exquisite
LunOr, the sudden retreat of the stern Solons into
LOLetb tltN ldu ID
scorp as shower threatened to drench their
senatorial robes. He said their dignity not proof
against moisture.
Tie President SAYS that the Constitutional Conven-
ton was elected not By the people OF Kansas, but a
political party. The proclamation which called that
body reftes this assertion the fact that Pro-Savery
men voted for it and became candidates under the
instrument II framed refutes it. The proclamation
was addressed
To tie L<gal Voters Of Kansas Terrtory."
The legal voters of Kansas Territory were certainly
the bona hde citizens Of the Territory nevertheless
and nine tenths OF them approved the movement FOR
State Convention.
Tie President says: an no instance has State
been admitted upon the application Of persons act
ing against the authorities duly constituted by An
act of Congress" The people Of Michigan not only
framed Constitution without leave and against the
wishes Of is Territorial Legislature, but pe.ted the
officers out Of the State with rotten eggs when they
fused TO resign TO their successors.
The principal feature in the Message, however, is
the be advances for charactenzng the C0nsti
tutioDal Convention az revolutionary assemblsge.
After reviewing Gov. Readers Veto Message, and
the history OF the Territorial Legislature, the Presi-
dent says:
1t viii be perceived that if sny constitutional defect
tsched the legislative Assembly
tended 10 eons! II rsggaty Of election or wait OF quaa
session However trivial tbs lection MAJ seem to be
CURES TO be considered because uPos it founded all that
srrerreture q acts plainly AGAINST law which threatens
tie pess only the Territory Kansas OF Unou
This paragraph, by ingeniOusly blending Gov.
Reedes with the Of the people OF the Ter
ritory-by making the squatters responsible for the
Cfic.l nduct Of their delegaie-can very easily and
summsrly be disposed of. Parties are founded on
principles factions on men-the squaters who elected
the Constitutional Convention are a party not fac
ton. The majority of them regard Reeders veto
message as pedantc and sophistcal document be-
heye that II the Legislature Of Kansas was legally
elected t adjournment did not affect the legality Of
s acts object 10 II ally ReCdeTs