The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-12-10
5 ASHLAND ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO, WEDNESDAY MoRl

d immediate expense of the peace an
1t happiness of the people of the Territor
4 of Kansas. That was made the battl
Of field not so much of opposing factions c
: inherent within itself as of the conflit
i; ting pasEons of the whole people of th
|, United states. Revolutionary disorde
= in Kansas had its origin in projects {
d intervcpLien deliberately arranged b
b certain members of that Congress whic
/ enacted the law for tho organization Q
e the Territory, and when propagandis
o colonizas siofss of Kansas has thus bee
r 9utfdertas,sn in one section of the Unioi
for tte '---Sstematic promotion of its pc
f Fculiar visas of policy, then eusued as
: matter of course a counteraction will
: opposite views in other sections of tn,
, Union. 7
In consequence of these and other in
cident many acts cf disorder. it is un
dcnlable, have been perpetrated in Kan
sas, to thsaoccasional interruption rather
, than the permanent suspension of regu
lar government. Aggressive and most
reprehenssble incursions into the Terri
tory were undertaken both in the North
and the South aud entered it on its
Northern border by the way of Iowa as
we'll as outhe Eastern by way of Mis-
souri,, and there has existed within it q
state of insurrection against the consti-
tuted authorities, not without counte-
nance from inconsiderate persons in each
of the great sections of the Union, but
the difficulties in that Territory have
been extfavagantly exaggerated for
purposes of political agitation else
where. 'f
The number and gravity of the acts
of violence have been magnifed, partly
by statements entirely untrue. and part
ly 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 oc-
casionally passes before us in single
cities, to the legret of all good citizens
but without being regarded as of gen.
eral or permanent political consequence.
Imputed Irregularities in the elec-
tions had IN Kansas, like occasional ir-
reeuiarities of the same description in
the States, were beyond the sphere of
action of the Exec tive; but incidents
of actual Violence, or of organized OBJ
struction of Law, pertinaciously renew
ed from time to time, have been met as
they occurred by such means as were
| available and as the circumstances re-
quired, alai nothing of this character
now relnalus to effect the general peace
of the Union
The attempts of a part of the inhabi-
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lutionary government, though sedulous-
ly eneeusa4ed and supplied with pecuni
laryaid f.',E active agents of disorder
in some ofethc States, has completely
failed. Bodies of armed men foreign to
the Territory, have been prevented from
entering, or compelled to leave it
Predatory bands engaged in acts of ra-
pine under cover of the existing politi
cal disturbances, have been arrested or
dispersed, aud every well disposed per-
son is now enabled once more to devote
himselfin peace TO the pursuit of pros
porous industry. for the prosecution of
which he undertook to participate in the
settlement of the Territory.
1t affords me unmingled satisfaction
thus to announce this peaceful condition
of things in Kansas especially consid,r
ing the means to which it was necessary
to have recourse to the attainment of
the end, namely: the employment of
part of the military force of the U. S.
The withdrawal of that force from its
proper duty of defending the country
against foreign foes or the savages
of the Frontier, to be employet for
the suppression of domestic insurrection
is when the cxIgency occurs matter
of the most earnest solicitude. On this
occasion of imperative necessity it has
been done with the best results, and my
satisfaction in the attainment of such
results by such means is greatly en-
hauced by the considera ton that through
the wisdom and energy of the present
executive of Kansas, aud the prudence,
firmuess and vigilance o the military
officers on duty there, tranquility has
been restored without one drop of blood
having been shed iu its mplishment
by the forces of the United States.
The restoration of comparative tran
guilty in that Territory furnishes the
means of observing calmly and appreci-
ating at their just value the events
which have occurred there. aud the dis
cussions of which the Government of
the Territory has been the subject. We
perceive that controversy, concerning its
future domestic institutions, was newt
abie-that no human prudence-no form
of Legislation-no wisdom on the pa,t
of Congress could have prevented this.
1t is idle to suppose that the particular
provisions of their organic Law were
the cause of agitation. Those provis-
ions were but the occasion or pretext of
a5xagitat:on which was Inherent in the
nature of things. Congress legislated
upon the subject in such terms as were
most consnnant with the principle of our
Popular Sovereignty which underlies
our government.
1t could not have legislated otherwise
without doing violence to another great
principle of our institutions the impre-
scriptibIe right of equality of the sever
al States. We perceive also that sec
tional interests and party passions have
been the great impediment to the salu-
tary operation of the organic principles
adopted, and the chief cause of the sue
cessive disturbances in Kansas, the as
sumption that becauss in the organiza-
ton of the Territories of Nebraska and
Kansas, Congress abstained from I'M
posing restrictions upon them to which
certain other Territories had been sub
iect, therefore disorders occurred in
the latter Territory, is emphatically
con.radicted by the fact that none
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