Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-09-11
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ]

WAsHINGToN, September, z, 1896. \
STA: Reliable information having reached
the President that armed and organized
bodies OF men, avowedly in rebellion against
the Territorial Government, have concern
trated such numbers as to require additional
military forces for their dispersion, you will
have the militia Of the Territory completely
enrolled and organized, TO the end that they
may, on short notice, lie brought into the
service of the United States. Upon the re-
QUESTION Of the commander of the Military
Department in which Kansas is embraced,
yoa will furnish by companies or regiments,
or brigades or divisions. such numbers as
you from time 10 lime may find, on his re-
port to you, to be necessary for the sup
preston OF all combinations to resist the
laws of the United States too powerful to be
suppressed by the civil authorities, and for
the maintenance Of public order and civil
government in the Territory.
ISigned1 VIM. L. MARCY.
To his Excellency, ]. w. GEARY, Govern
or of Kansas Territory.
WAsniNGToN, September 6.
The Secretary of War, writing TO Gen.
Smith, under date of September Sd, says:
"Your dispatch of the 22d August, and en-
closures, sufficiently EXHIBIT the inadequacy
of the force under your command to per-
form the duties which have been devolved
upon you, in the present unhappy condition
OF Kansas, by the orders and instructions
heretofore communicated. To meet this eX-
igency, the President has directed the Gov
ernor of the Territory to complete the en-
listment and organization of militia as you
will find fully set forth in the enclosed copy
of letter addressed to hun by the Secreta-
ry of State; and the President has directed
me 10 say to you, that You are authorized,
from time to time, to make acquisitions upon
the Governor for such militia force as you
may require, o enable you promptly and
successfully to execute your orders, and
suppress the instruction against the gov
eminent of the Territory of Kansas; and
under the circumstances heretofore set forth
in your instructions, to give the requisite
aid to officers Of the civil government, who
may be obstructed in the due execution Of
the law.
"Should you not be able TO derive from
the militia Of Kansas an adequate force fol
these purposes. such additional number o.
militia as may be necessary, will be drawn
from the States of Illinois and Kentucky, a:
shown in the requisition, a copy of which il
enclosed The views contained in your in
structions to the officers commanding tn,
) troops, under date OF August 18th, are full,
approved, and accorded so entirely will
, the purposes of the Executive, as to leavt
but little TO add. In relation TO the course
which 1t is desired you should pursue, thu
position of the insurgents, as shown by YOU
3 letter and its Enclosures, is that Of open re
t bellion against the laws and the constitu
, tional authorities, with such manifestation O
purpose as to spread devastation over tn
land, and as no longer justifes any furthe
hesitation or indulgence. To you as wei
as every soldier, whose habitual feeling is I
II protect the citizens OF his own country, an
G only to use his arms against the public en-
e envy, it cannot be otherwise than deepl
e painful to be brought into conflict with an
; portion of his w-countrymen. But pa
iriotism and humanity alike require that re
g rebellion should be promptly crushed, an
/ the peace and security of the good peopl
% Of the Territory restored"