Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-12-18
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

States to multiply the existing extradition
laws imposed upon Congress the duty of
passing new one, the country was in
vited by agitators to enter into party or
ganization for its repeal; but that agitation
speedily ceased by reason of the impracti-
cability of It's object. So when the statute
restriction upon the institutions of new
States by geographical line had been re-
pealed the country was urged to demand
its restoration, and that project also died
almost with its birth; then followed the cry
of alarm from the North against imputed
Southern encroachments, which cry sprang
in reality from the spirit oil revolutionary
attack on the domestic institutions of the
South, and after troubled existence of a
few months has been rebuked by the voice
of a patriotic people.
OF this last agitation one lamentable fea-
ture was that It was carried on at the I'M
mediate expense of the peace and happiness
of the people of the Territory Of Kansas
That was made the battle fed, not 50 much
of opposing factions or inherent within it
self, as of the conflicting passions Of the
whole people Of the United States. Reyo-
lutionary disorder in Kansas had its origin
in projects of Intervention deliberately ar
ranged by certain members of that Con-
gress which enacted the law for the organ
ization of the Terri ory, and when propa-
gandis, colonization Of Kansas has thus
been undertaken iii one section Of the I'm
ion for the systematic promotion Of its pc
culiar views of policy, then ensued as a
matter Of course counter action with op-
posite views in other sections of the Tn
ion.
In consequence of these and other Incl
dents, many acts ofdisorder, it is undenia-
bic, have been perpetrated in Kansas, to
the occasional interruption rather than the
permanent suspention of regular govern
ment. Aggressive and most reprehensi-
BILE incursions into the Territory were un
dertaken both in the North and South, and
entered it on It's Northern border by the
way of Iowa, as well as the Eastern by
way Of Missouri, and there has existed
within it state of insurrection against tie
constituted authorities, not without coun-
tcnance from incOnsiderate persons in each
of the great sections of the Union, but the
difficulties in that Territory have been ex-
travagantly exaggerated for purposes Of po-
litical agitation elsewhere.
The number and gravity of the acts Of
violence have been magpiied, partly by
statements entirely untrue, and partly by
reiterated accounts of the same rumors oi
facts Thus the Territory has been seem
ingly filled with extreme violence, when
the whole amount or such acts has mol
been greater than what occasionally passes
before lis in single cities, to the regret of al
good citizens, but without being regarded
as of general or permanent political i'm
/ portance.
Imputed irregularities in the elections
had in Kansas, like occasional IRE gulari-
ties Of the same description in the States,
were beyond he sphere of action of the Ex
ecutive; but incidents of actual violence, OF
Of organized obstruction Of Law, pertina-
ciously revived from time to time, have
been met as they occurred by such means
as were available and as the circums,anc ce
required, and nothing of this kind now re-
mains to affect the general peace of the I'm
ion.
The attempts of part Of the inhabitants
Of the Territory 10 erect revolutionary
government, though sedulously encou-
ragged and supplied with pecuniary aid from
active agents of disorder in some of the
States, has completely failed. Bodies OF
armed men foreign 70 the Territory, have
been prevented from entering, or compell-
ed to leave it. Predatory bands engaged
in acts of rapine, undercovcr of the existing
political disturbances, have been arrested
or dispersed, and every well disposed per-
son is now enabled once more to devote
himself in peace to the pursuit of prosper
Gus industry, for theprosecution "f which
he undertook TO participate in the settle.
ment of the Territory
1t affords me unmingled satisfaction
thus to announce the peaceful condition OF
things IN Kansas; especially considering
the means to which it was necessary to
have recourse to 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 du-
ty OF defending the country against foreign
foes or the savagcs Of the frontier to en-
ploy for the suppression Of domestic insur-
reetion, is when the exigency occurs a
matter of the most earnest solicitude.
On this occasion Of imperative necessi-
ty it has been done with the best results,
and my satisfaction in the attainment OF
such results by such means is greatly en-
hanced by the consideration that through
the wisdom and energy of the present Ex-
ecutive of Kansas, and the prudence, firm
ness and vigilance of the military officers
on duty there, tranquility has been restor-
ed without one drop OF blood having been
she'd in its accomplishment by the forces
of the United States.
The restoration of comparative tranquil
lity in that Territory, furnishes the means
of observing calmly and appreciating at
their just value the events which have oc-
Cured there, and the discussion Of which
the Government of the Territory has been
the subject We perceive that controver-
sy. concerning its future domestic institu'
tions, was inevitable-that no human pru-
dence-no form of legislation-no wisdom
on the part of Congress could have proven
ted this 1t is idle tosuppose that the par
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