The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-02-14
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PEOPLE OF KAN
sAs SPECIALIZATION.

nv Ai0oi"ehI h''S III last discovered that he
has power to use the forces of the United Stale,
to secure peace in Kansas, and protect the
rights of its actual residents against armed in.
tervention, against the forays Of "border rpl
fans" Had he put forth this power when the
People were called upon to elect their deleraie,
to Congress and to their Legislature. Messrs.
Atchison and Stringfelow would have been
bailied, and there would have been no need f,r
the following proclamation:
by tie President of tie Unitcd States Of d,,s,,,,
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas indications exist that public iran.
guilty and the supremacy of law in the Terri
tory OF Kansas are endangered by the reprc-
hensibie acts or purposes 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 OIL
the territorial laws, and thus, in effect, suhyert
by violence all present cOnsti ntional and LEGAL
authority: 1t also appearing that persons resi-
ding without the Territory, bat near its borders.
contemplate armed Intervention in the affair,
thereof: 1t also appearing that other persons.
inabtants OF remote States, are COLLECTING mon.
ey, engaging men, and providing arms for th-
same purpose: And it further appearing thai
combinations within the Territory are endeay
oring, by the agency of emissaries, and otLcr
wise, to induce individual States of the Union
to intervene IN the Affairs thereof, in violatya
Of the Constitution Of the United States:
And whereas all such plans for the determi
nation of the future institutions of the Teri
tory, if carried into action from within the
same will constitute the fact of instruction
and if from without that OF invasive agcres
sion, and will, in either case, Justify and require
the iorcible iDterposition of the whole power Of
the General Government, as well to maintain
the laws OF the Territory rs those of the mon:
Now, therefore, |, Franklin Pierce. President
OF the United States, do issue this nv Procla.
nation, TO command all persons engaged in
unlawful combinations against the constituted
authority of the Territory of Kansas, or of the
United States, to dispense and retire peaceabIy
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 oi
the local militia, but also by that Of any avail
able forces Of the United States; TO the end O
assuring immunity from violence, aud full pro
lection to the persons, property, aud civil rights
OF all peaceful and lawabiding inhabitants q
the Territory
1t, III any part of the Union, the fury Of fac
ton or ianaticism, iniiamed into disregard Of
the great principles Of popular sovereignty
which, under the Constitution, are Fundamental
III the whole structure Of our institutions, is 70
bring on the country the dire calamity Of AZ
arbltrament of arms IN that Territory, it shaa
be between lawless violence on the one side
and conservative force on the other, welded 5f
legal authority of the General Government.
| call on the citizens, both of adjoining AM
OF distant States, TO abstain from unauthOrilel
intermeddIing in the local concerns of the Ter
ritory, admonlshing them that its organic law
IS to be executed with impartial Justice; thai
all individual acts of illegal interference will
incur condIgn punishment; and that any en-
deavor to intervene by organized force will be
firmly withstood.
L invoke all good citizens to promote order
by rendering obedience to the law; TO seek
remedy for temporary evils by peaceful means /:
TO dIscountenance and repulse the counsels and /
the instigations of agtators and of disorgan
izers and to testify their attachment to Their I
country, their pride in its greatness, their aE /
probation of the blessings they enjoy, and Their
determination that Republican institutions shall
not fail in their hands, by cooperating TO ur
hold the majesty of the laws, and to yindcar
the sanctity Of the Constitution.
In testimony whereof, / have hereunt0 81
my hand, and caused the seal of the Unite.
States to be affixed to these presents.
Done at the city of Washington, the eleyer-
day OF February, in the year Of Oh,
Is,,,1 Lord one thousand eight hundred and
| 'I lilty-six, and of the Independents o.
the United States the eighteth.
FRANKLIN PER.E
BY the President;
w. l.. MARCY, Secretary Of State
The NICARAGUA MINIsTER-Secretary Marc
has addressed the following note to Col Parkt'
Ii. French, the minister from Nicaragua:
DEPARTMENT or STATE,
Washington, Ee6. :, lsJ6
SIR: l have received your letter of the 1'A
instant, with copy Of your letter Of credeucs'
and LAID them before the President. ] an III
rected by him to reply to your request to b.
received as Minister Plenpotentiary to tbs
Government from the Republic Of Nicaragla'
that he has again taken the subject into DEM
crate consideration, but has not seen suthcIen'
reason for changing the determination maze
known to you in my letter of the 2lst OF I've
cember last. am, sir, your most obedleI'
servant, W. l.. MACY
KANSAS CONTRIBUTIoNs.-MaiOr Buiord, o. "
acknowledges in the SPIRIT o. u"
South, the receipt of Kansas contributions, as
follows b. F. w. Aston, South Carolina, SlOv'
A. C. Mitchell, Barbour, SlOO George Stone
Lowndes, 500; j. e. Phelan, Perry, so; r.
S. Shorter, Barbour, $50; lanes Tucker, $40
C.. G. Clay, jun, Madison, $50; Z. c. BulocA
Barbour, $50,