The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-12
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BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TElEGRAPHS.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
Proclamation of the President on Kansas
Affairs.
United States Troops Ordered to the Territory.
THE HARBOR DEFEHCES OF NEW YORK,
&c., 6C., DO.
Armed Intervention In the Affairs OF Kansas
PROCLAMATION BY THE PBESlDRNT-A WARNING TC
THE ABoLITIONIsTs AND BORDER RUfFIANs.


PROCLAMATION BY THE PsssiDRNT-A WARNING TO
THE ABOLIrIONIsTs AND BORDER RUFFIANs.
WASHINGTON Feb II, 1856.
The President to-day issued proclamation, which vii
appear In the Union to morrow, setting forth that indi
cations exist that public tranquility aud the supremacy
of the In Kansas endangered the reprehensbe
acts and purposes of PERSONS both within and without
the Territory who propose to direct and control its poll
ca organization force that combinations have been
formed therein to resist the execution of the Territorial
laws and thus in effect TO subvet, by violence all the
present constitutional and legal authority; that per
resding without the Territory but its borders
contemplate armed intervention in the affairs thereof
that other persona inhabitants Of remote Saes col
sctng money engaging and providing for the
purpose; that combinations within the Territory
endeavoring by the agency of emssaries aud other
means, to induce individual States of the Union to
interfere the afeirs thereof in violation OF
the constitution Of the United States All such
plans for the determination of the future institutions Of
the Territory carried into execution from within the
same, will constitute the fact of rsurrection and II
from without that of invasive aggression, and will in
either justify and require the forcibe nerposidon
# the whole power Of the general government well to
maintain the laws OF the Territory those Of the Union
BE commands all persons engaged IN unlawful comoius-
ors against the constituted authority Of the Terri ory Of
Kansas to dperse aud retire pescaby to their respes
tive abodes and all such persons that any at
tempted insurrecon in the Territory, aggressive ntru
sion n.o the same will be resisted not only by the
poy ment Of the local militia, but slso by that Of any
available force Of the United states government to the
end of assuring immunity from whence and full protec
top to persons property and the civil rights of all peace
abe and law-abiding inhabitants OF the territory
any part of the Union the fury Of fac ion fana
icism. infamed into disregard Of the general princ
pies of popular sovereignty, which under the c,nsiu
.ion 10 the whole structure of ns
tutons is to bring the country the dire calamity Of
srbirsmeDt Of IL thai Territory 1t shall be be-
tween awess violence side, and conservative
force the other welded by ha legal authority Of the
general government
The President calls the citizens, both Of adjoining
and dis ant States to abstain from unauthorized inter-
meddlng in the local concerns of the Territory, ad
moshng them that its organic law is to be execated
with impartial usce-that all individual acts Of illegal
interference will incur condigu punishment and any
deAvor to intervene will be firmly withstood
He invoices all good cszens to promote order by rem
deriDg obedience to the law to discountenance and
pulse the Of insgators and disor9anizers
to testify their attachment to their country their pride
in s greatness their appreciation Of the blessings hev
enjoy and their determination that republican nsttu
items shall not fail in their hands, by cooperating to
hold the majesty Of the laws and to vndicate the
tity Of the constitution.