Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-02-27
pRoc1AMAT1oN By THE PRESIDENT.

Whereas, ind lcatlons exist that public tran
guilty and the supremacy Of law in the Ter
ritory of Kansa are endangered by the repre-
hensble acts orpurposes of persons both within
and without the same, who propose 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, 10 effect, subvert by violence all
present con stitutional and legal authority: II
also appearing that persons residing without the
territory, but near its borders, contempt ate arm.
ed Intervention in the affairs thereof: It also
appearing that other persons, inhabitants Of re-
mote States, are collecting money, engaging
men, and providing arms for the same purpose
And it further appearing that combinations with
in the Territory are endeavoring, by the agency
Of emissaries and otherwise, to induce individu.
al States of the Union to intervene in the affairs
thereof, in violation of the Constitution of the
United States:
And whereas all such plans for the determi.
nation of the future institutions of the Terrific
ry, if carried into action within the same,
will constitute the fact of insurrection, and if
from without, that of invasive aggression, and
will, in either case, justify and require the forci-
bic interposition of the whole power of the
general government, as we'll 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 procla-
nation to command all persons engaged in un-
lawful combinations against the constituted au-
thority of the Territory of Kansas or Of the
United States, to disperse and retire peaceably
to their respective abodes, and to warn all such
persons that any attempted insurrection 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 availa-
bic forces of the United States; to the end of
assuring immunity from violence and full pro-
lection 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 fanaticisrn, infamed into disregard of
the great principles Of popular sovereignty,
which, under the constitution, are fundamental
in the whole structure of our Institutions is to
bring on the country the dire calamity of an
arbitrement of arms in that Territory, it shall
be between lawless violence on the one side, and
conservative force on the other, welded by le-
gal authority of the general government.
call on the citizens, both of adjoining and
of distant States,t abstain from unauthorized IN
termeddling with the local concerns of the Terri
tory, udmonishing them that it. organic law is
to be executed with impartial justice; that all
individual acts of illegal interference will incur
condign punishment; and that any endeayor to
intervene by organized force will be firmly
withstood.
invoke all good citizens to promote order
by rendering obedience to the law; to seek
remedy fsr Temporary evils by peaceful means:
to discounenance and repulse the counsels and
the insligations of agitators and of dsorganizers
and to testify their attachment to their country
their pride 10 its greatness, their appreciation Of
the blessings they enjoy, and their determination
that republican institutions shall not fail in theil
hands, by cooperating TO uphold the majesty
of the laws and to vindcate the sanciity of the
laws and of the constitution.
In testimony whereof, l have hereunto sci
my hand, and caused the seal Of the United
States to be affixed to these presents.
Done at the city of Washington, the eleventh day
of February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ffty.six, and O
the independence of the United States, tho
eightieth. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
BY the President.
w. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.