The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-12-10


prevented from entering or compelled to leave
il. Predatory bands, engaged in acts Of rapine,
under cover Of the existing political disturban-
ees, have been arrested or dispersed. And ev-
cry well disposed person is now enabled once
more to devote himselfin peace to the pursuits
of prosperous industry, ior the prosecution of
which he undertook TO participate in the settle
ment ofthe Territory.
Itafords me unmingled satisfaction thus to
announce the peaceful condition OF things IN
Kansas, especially considering the means to
which it was necessary TO have recourse for the
attainment of the end, namely, the employment
Of part Of the military force Of the United
States. The Withdrawal OF that force from its
proper duty Of defending the country against for
I eign foes or the Savages of the frontier, 10 en-
lploy il for the suppression of domestic insurec-
tion, is, when the exigency occurs, matter Of
/ the most earnest solieitude. On this occasion Of
imperative necessity it has been done with the
bests results, and my satisfaction in the attain
ment ofsuch results 10y such means Is greatly en-
hanced by the consideration, that, through the
wisdom and energy Ofthe present Executive of
Kansas, and the prudence, trmness and vigilance
of the military officers on duty there, tranquil
ity has been restored without one drop Of blood
having been shed in its accomplishment ! y the
forces OF the United States.
The restoration of comparative tranquility in
that Territory furnishing the means of observing
calmly, and appreciating at their just value, the
events that have occurred there, and the discus
sions Of which the Government of the Territory
has been the subject.
Weperceive that controversy concerning its
future domestic institutions was inevitable; that
no human prudence, or form of legislation, no
wisdom ON the part Of Congress, could have pre-
vented this.
1t is idle to suppose that the particular provis-
ions were the cause Of agitation. The provisions
were but the occasion, or the pretcxt of an agi-
tation, which was inherent in the nature of
things. Congress legislated upon the subject in
such terms as were most consOnant with the
principles Unpopular sovereignty which underlies
our Government. 1t could not have legislated
otherwise without doing violence to another
great principle of our institutions, the inprescrip-
tible right of equality Of the several States.
We preceive, Also that sectional interests
and party passions, have been the great imped-
) inent to the salutary operation of the organic
principles adopted, and the chief cause of the
successive disturbances in Kansas. The as
sum ption that, because in the organization Of
, the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, Con
, gress abstained from imposing restraints upon
, them to which certain other Territories had
been subject, therefore disorders occurred in the
; latter Territory, is emphatically contradicteo
by the fact that none have occurred in the for,
mer. Those disorders were not the conse.
quence, in Kansas, of the freedom of self gov.
ernment conceded to that Territory by Con-
gress but Of unjust interference on the part o
persons not inhabitants Of the Territory. Such
: interference, wherever it has exhibited itself
f by acts of insurrcctionary character, or Of OBJ
struction to processes of law, has been repellet
or suppressed, by all the means which tn,
= Constitution and the laws place in the hands @
t the Executive.
} In those parts of the United States where
"a by reason of the inilamed state of the pubi
t mind, false rumors and misrepresentation hay
A the greatest currency, it has been assumed tina
= it was the duty of the Executive not only t
} suppress insurrcctionary movements in Kansas
but also to see to the regularity of local elections
| 1t needs little argument to show that the Presi
) dent has no such power. All government il
, the United States rests substantially upon pop
: ular election. The freedom of elections is liza
/ bic to be impaired by the intrusion of unlawful
votes, or the exclusion Of lawful ones, by i'm
proper influences, by violence, or by fraud, Bu
S the people of the United States are themselve
the all sufficient guardians of their own rights
a and TO suppose that they will not remedy in du
: season, any such incidents Of civil freedom,
y to suppose them to have ceased to be capable {
self government. The President Of the Uni
G ted States has not power 10 interposc in elcc
= tions, to see TO their tfeedom, to canvass thei
0 votes, OF to pass upon their legality in the Ter
n ritorics any more than in the States. If Ii
G had such power the government might be repub
), lican in form, bat it would be monarchy i
r q l,1, IL 4o
i the case of Kansas, he would have been justl
d subject to the charge of usurpation, and viola
: ton of the dearest rights Of the people of th
y United States.
t Unwise laws, equally with irregularities q
e elections, are in periods of great exctemen
# the occasional incidents Of even the freest an
e best political institutions. But all experienc
IS demonstrates that in country like ours, wher
/, the right of selEconstitution exists in the con
l. pletest form, the attempt to remedy unwise le
d gislation by resort to revolution is totally OF
c of place; inasmuch as existing legal institution
g affords more prompt and ctficacious means lt
l. the redress OF wrong.
Iconfdently trust that now, when the peace
T. full condition of Kansas affords opportunity 70
y calm reflection and wise legislation, either th
Is legislative assembly of the Territory or Cor
n gress, will see that no act shall remain ON it
l. statute book violatiNe of the provisions of Il
r Constitution, or subversive of the great objec
ct for which that was ordained and establishe
ID and will take all other necessary steps to assuI
J. to its inhabitants the enjoyment, without ol
lg structon or abrdgement, of all the constitution
t. al rights, privileges, and immunities of citizel
h, of the United States, as contemplated by Il
s, organic law of the Territory.
ic Full information in relation to recent even
in this Territory will be found in the documen
re communicated herewith from the Department
x of State and War.
lie refer you to the report of the Secretary
lie the Treasury for particular information concer
ns ing the financial condition of the goveTnmer
1g and the various branches of the public servi
ed connected with the Treasury Department.
I'd During the last fiscal year the receipts fro
G. customs were, for the first time, more than 81
n ty-four million dollars, and from all source
on seyenty-three million nine hundred and eig
d. teen thousand one hundred and forty-one dc
en- lars; which with the balance on hand up
tic the lst of july 1855, made the total resourc
re of the year to amount TO ninety-two mill
on eight hundred and fifty thousand one hundr
he and seventeen dollars. The expenditur
including three million dollars in execute
is, of the treaty with Mexico, and excluding sui
we paid on account of the public debt amounted
in sixty million one hundred and seventy-t'
m thousand four hundred and one dollars; and,
nd Icluding the latter, 10 seventy two million nj
Try hundred and forty eight thousand seven hr
he dred and ninety two dollars, the payment on t
by account having amounted to twelve million Sc
by en- hundred and seventy-six thousand, tn
ed hundred and ninety dollars.
m On the 4th of March, 1858, the amount of