Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-12-12

not without countenance from inconsider-
ate persons in each of the great sections
ofthe Union. But the difficulties in that
territory have been extravagantly exag-
gerated for purposes of political agitation
elsewhere.
The number and gravity of the acts of
violence have been magnifed partly by
statements entirely untrue, and partly by
reiterated accounts of the same rumors
or facts. Thus the territory has been
seemingly filled with extreme violence,
when the whole amount of such acts has
not been greater than what occasionally
passes before US in single cities to the re-
greet of all good citizens, but without be-
ing regarded as of general or permanent
political consequence.
Imputed irregularities in the elections
had in Kansas like occasional IRREGULAR
ties of the same description in the States,
were beyond the sphere of action of the
Executive. But incidents of actual vio-
lence or of organized obstruction of law,
pertinaciously renewed from time to time,
have been met as they occurred, by such
means as were available and as the cir
cumstances required; and nothing of this
character now remains to affect the gen
eral peace of the Union.
The attempt of a part of the inhabi-
tants of the Territory to erect a revolu-
tionary government, though seduously
encouraged and supplied with pecuniary
aid from active agents of disorder in some
of the States, has completely failed
Bodies of armed men, foreign to the Ter
ritory, have been prevented from enter
ing or compelled to leave it. Predatory
bands, engaged in acts of rapine, under
cover ofthe existing political disturbances,
have been arrested or dispersed And
every well disposed person is now ena-
bled once m ore to devote himself in peace
to the pursuit of prosperous industry,
for the prosecution of which he under
took to participate in the settlement of
the Territory.
1t affords me unmingled satisfaction
thus to announce the peaceful condition
of things in Kansas, especially consider
ing the means to which it was necessary
to have recourse for the attainment of the
end, namely, the employment of a part Of
the military force of the United States.
The withdrawal of that force from its
proper duty Of defending the country
against foreign foes or the savages of the
frontier, to employ it for the suppression
Of domestic Instruction, is when the ex-
igency occurs, matter of the most earn.
est solicitude.
On this occasion of imperative neces-
sity it has been done with the best re-
suits, and my satisfaction in the attain
ment of such results by such means i:
greatly enhanced by the consideration
that, through the wisdom and energy o
the present Executive of Kansas, anC
the prudence, frmness and vigilance o
the military officers on duty there, tran
, guilty has been restored without ont
, drop of blood having been shed in its &C
complishment by the forces of the United
States.
The restoration of comparative tran
guilty in that Territory furnishes tn
g means of observing calmly, and appreci
ating at their just value, the events whicl
have occurred there, and the discussion
of which the government Of the Territor-
has been the subject.
We perceive that controversy concern
= ing its future domestic institutions wa
, inevitable; that no human prudence, n
form of Legislation, no wisdom on tn
part Of Congress, could have prevente
= this.
1t is idle to suppose that the patricia
Il provisions of their organicslaw were til
+ cause of agitation. Those provision
n were but the occasion, or the pretext {
e an agitation, which was inherent in th
i nature of things. Congress legislate
8 upon the subject in such terms as wei
I most consonant with the principle of POI
ular sovereignty which underlies OF
lie government. 1t could not have legislate
lie otherwise without doing violence to al
p other great principle of our institution
u the inprescriptible right of equality of tt
d, several States.
+ We perceive, also, that sectional int
lg ests and party passions, have been IL
Il great inpediment to the salutary oper
IN ton of the organic principles adopte
q and the chief cause of the successive di
+ turbances in Kansas. The assumptic
Oh that, because in the organization of IL
OF Territories of Nebraska and Kanss