The true Democrat., 1856-09-30
ENCLOSURE No. By the President cf the Unitet States of
A PROCLAMATION

W hereas indications exist that public tran quiiity aud the supremacy of law in the terri tory ot Kansas are endangered by the reprehen- slole acts or purposes Of persons, both within ana 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 of the territorial laws, and thus, in effect subvert by violence all present constitutional and legal authority: 1t also appearing that persons re- siding without the territory, but near its bor ders, contemplate armed intervention in the af- fairs thereof: It also appearing that other per. sons, inhabitants of remote States, are collect Ing money, engaging men, and providing arms for the same purpose: And 1t further appear ing that combinations within the territory are endeavoring, by the agency of emissaries and otherwise, to induce individual States of the Union to intervene in tue affairs thereof in violation of the constitution of the United States:
 And whereas all such plans for the detcrmi nation for the future institutions of the terrto ry, If carried into action from within the same. will constitute the fact of instruction. and if from without, that of invasive aggression. and Will, in either case, justify and require the for clble lnterposition of the whole power of the general government, we'll to maintain the laws of the territory as those of the Union:
 Now, therefore, 1, Franklin Pierce. Presi- dent of the United States, do issue this my proclamation to command all persons engaged ID unlawful combinations against the constitut- ed authority of the territory of Kansas or of the United States to disperse and retire peeoo- ably to thelr respective abodes, and to warn all such persons that any attempted instruction in Sali territory int .lo same will be resisted not only by the employ ment of the local militia, but also bv that of any available forces of the United States: to the end of assuring immunity from violence and full protection to the persons, property, and civil rights of ali peaceful and law-abiding in habitants of the territory
 If, in any part the Union, the fury of fac tion or tanaticsm, inhamed into disregard of the great principles of popular sovereignty which, under the constitution, are fundamental in the whole structure of our institutions, is to bring on the country the dire caimity of an arbitra- ment of arms III that territory, it shall be be- tween lawiess violence on the one side and conservative force on the other, wielded by le- gal authority of the general government
 l call on the citizens, both of adjoining and of distant States, to abstain from unauthorized intermeddling in the local concerns of the ter ritory, admonshng them that its organic law Is to be executed with impartial justice; that all individual acts of illegal interference will incur condign punishment; and that any endea- vor to intervene by organized force will be firmly withstood.
 invoke all good citizens to promote order by rendering obedience to the law; to seek re- medy for temporary evils by peaceful means; to discountepance and repulse the counsels and the instigations of agtators and of disorgani- gers; and to testify their attachment to their country, their pride in its greatness, their appre- citation of the blessings they enjoy, and their determination that republican institutions shall not fail in their hands, by cooperating to up- hold the majesty of the laws and to vndicate the sanctity of the constitution.
 In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents.
 Done at the city of Washington, the eleventh
 day of February, in the year of ou,
 Lord one thousand eight hundred and SEAL ifty-six, and of the independence o
 the United States the eightieth
 FRANKLIN PIERCE.
 By the President:
 w. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.