New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-13
Where are the Sharp's Rifles A.
A PROCLAMATION.

BE- tie President of the United States Of America.
Whereas indications exist that public tranquility and
the supremacy OF law in the Territory of Kansas are
endangered by the rtprehensibe acts purposes Of
persons. both within and without the same, who pro-
pose to direct and control its political organization by
force: 1t appearing that combinations have been
formed therein TO resist the execution Of the territorial
laws and thus, in effect subvert by violence all pre-
sent constitutional and Legal authority: II also appear
ing that persons residing without the Territory, but
its borders, contemplate armed Intervention IN
TIE affairs thereof: 1t also appearing that other per-
sons, inhabitants of remote States, are collecting
money, engaging men, and providing arms for the
same purpose: And it further appearing that cOmbi-
nations within the Territory erdeavOTing, by the
agency Of emssaIies and otherwise to induce ndiyd
ual States of the Union to intervene in the afairs
thereof, III violation OF the Constitution OF the United
States:
And whereas all such plans for the determination Of
the future institutions OF the Territory If carried into
action from within the same will constitute the fact
of Instruction and if from without, that Of invasive
AGGRESSION and will in either case justify and require
the forcble intelposton of the whole power OF the
General Government well to maintain the laws OF
the Territory as those Of the Union:
Now therefore ], Franklin Pierce, President of the
United States do issue this my proclamation to com
nand all persons engaged in unlawful combinations
against the constituted authority Of the Territory of
Kansas or of the United States to dpese and retire
pesceaby to their respective abodes, and TO warn all
such persons that any attempted insuTect0n In SAID
Territory or aggrt ssive intrusion into the same, viii be
resisted not only by the employment of the local
militia but also by that Of any available forces Of the
United States to the end of assuring immunity from
violence aud full protection to the persons property
and civil rights of oil peaceful and aw-abiiihg nhab-
liant. of the Territory.
IT, in any part of the Union, the fury of faction or
fanaticsm nGamed into disregard OF the great pri1-
cplts of popular sovereignty which, under the Consi-
tuition alr Fundamental in the whole structure OF our
Institutions Is to bring the country the dire caan-
ity of an Rrbitrement of arms in that Territory, II
.Le be between lawless violence on the one side and
conservative force the other, welded by legal
authority Of the General Government.
call on the citizens both of adjoining and ofdlstant
States to abstain from unauthorized intermeddling in
the local concerns of the Territory edmonshng them
that its organic law IS TO be executed with impartial
Justice that all Individual acts Of Illegal interference
will incur condigp Punishment and that any endeiyor
to intervene by organized force will be firmly with
stood.
invoke all good citizens TO promote order by rem
deng obt dience TO the law; TO seek remedy for tenn
porary evils by peaceful means to circumference and
repuse the counses and the instigations Of agtaors
and of dsorganizer and TO testify their attachment to
their country THEN pride in its greatness their apprc
citation Of the blessings they ENJOY and their determl-
nation that republican institutions shall not ia IN their
hands, by cooperating to uphold the majesty OF the
laws and to yindcate the sanctity of the Constitution
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my hand,
and caused the seal Of the United States TO be afhxed
to these presents.
Done tho City of Washington the eleventh DAY Of Febru
ary in the Lord one thousand eight hundred
States the oshtie'h FRANkLlN PIERCE;
By the President; W. j.. MARCY, Secretary OF state