Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-06

Entertaining these views il will by my impeta-
tive duty to exert the whole power of the Fede.
raj executive to support public order In the Ter
ri,ory: 10 vindicatc its laws whether Federal or
local, against all attempts of organized resistance
and 80 to protect its people in the establishment
Of their own institutions, undsturbed by en-.
croachment from without, and In the full enjoy.
mcnt of the rights Of self government assured 10
them by the Constitution and the organic act OF
!. Congress.
The above is an extract from Mr.. Pierce's
message extraordinary. 1t would seem that
this exalted parsonage has all at once become
especially soliciteus about public order" in Kan
sas. The law is to be indicated. Organized re-
sstance is to be frowncd upon, and The People
are to be protected Sin the establishments OF
their own institutions
wonderful man Is this Franklin Pierce Has
he been asleep, the past eighteen months Have
the eyes Of this Rip Van Wrinkle just been open
ed to the disorders in Kansas Has he bu, now
learned the history of border outrage, aud is he
IN earnest when he asserts that the people of that
Terri;or, shall be psotectedg
Certainly the man must be sincere 1t can
not be otherwise The whole of his cxtraordin.
ary message shows that he is prepared to do his
duty The people are to he protected by giving
them Governor like Shannon They are to be
protected by enforcing the laws enacted by the
bogus legislature! They are to be protected bv
affirming the standing of the officers appointed
by this Legislature! They are to be protected
by denial Of their existence; by sanction of
every outrage upon them, and by according the
whole power of the Government in aid of the
ruiiians and scoundrels who, from all parts of the
country, have been collected for the express
purpose OF committing wrong! That is the sor;
OF protection Mr.. Pierce wishes TO give to the
People of Kansas. His masters have demanded
II OF him, and the bascness of the stare compels
him to submit to their exactons
We thank God that the people OF Kansas do no;
now need sproteetion. They will protect them
selves They have strong arms and brave hearts
They have athomed their position and their ne
cessity, and they are equally prepared and de-
tcrmined to repcl every aggression upon them,
come 1t from what source it may. The Border
raid is about over, we believe. Whether il be
or not, the ruifans who engage in another will
probably meet with their deserts, even though
Mr. President Pierce and all his faction should
attempt to aid them.
There are other people in the West than Mis-
souri, RutHans If Mr. Pierce calls on the militia
ofany State, orattemp. to use the forces under
his orders, in aid of the miserable villains who
have been enforcing outrageous wrong in Kansas
by perjury, and murder and all species of yio-
lence, he will probably fine them not quite so
willing to be the tools of his malienitv as he
would seem to believe them! There is power
beyond and above that of The President The
people will obey the law and its officers so long
as they are not the instruments of oppression and
tyrann? ard wrong, But when il is attempted
to make them the means by which the wrong is
to be perpetratcd, they will administer rct nike
as signal as it win be deserved Mr.. Pierre. had
better be cautious how he talks about CO limo in
the militia. He may, perhaps, discover, if he
moves on at the same pace he has s,.o,,,ed at the
bidding of others, that there is peogie and that
they know how to parish such criminals az he