Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-05-26

by order Of the people Of Lawrence
Very truly, &c. c. w. ToPLIFF,
john HUTCHINSON,
W. Y. ROBERTS
GOVERNOR sHANNON's REPLY
Executive OFFICE,
LKCoMProN, K. T., May IL, 1856
GENTLEMEN: Your note of the llth is re-
ceived, and in reply 1 have to state that there
Is no force around or approaching Lawrence
except the legally constituted posse of United
States Marshal and Sheriff of Douglas county.
each Of whom, l am informed, have number
OF writs in their hands for execution against
persons now In Lawrence. l shall in no wayin-
terfere with either Of these officers in the dis.
charge of their official duties If the citizens
OF Lawrence submit themselves to the Terri
torial laws, aid and assist the Marshal and
Sherir in the execution of processes in their
hands, as all good citizens are bound to do,
when called on, they: or all such, will entitle
themselves to tho protection of the law But
so long as they keep up an armed organization
to resist the Territorial laws and the officers
charged with their execution, shall not in
terfere to save them from the legitimate con-
sequences Of their illegal acts
1 have the honor to DO, yours, with the
greatest respect, WILSON SHANNON.
Messrs. c. w. Toplif, John Hutchinson, and
W. Y. Roberts.
Will the South instruct the next Nom.
lnee OF the Cincinnati Convention, if elected
President, to conciliate Freesoilers and
Abolltionists by The sacrifice Of Southern
Rights 1T is admitted on all hands that the
South will control the nomina ton at the coming
National Democratic Convention. If the slave.
holding States cordially and steadily vote for
President Pierce, he must be the nominee. He
Will, however, in any event, have the support
OF majority of the States of the Union, and a
majority of the delegates. No well-informsd
man can deny that Hence the delegates from
the South must pass judgment upon President
Pierce and his public conduct, in relation to a
denomination. He will be the majority can.
didate-will have more votes than all others.
Southern men in the Convention must either
commend, 10y denomination him and his
action as Chief Executive since March, 1852,
or condemn both.
what line of argument is urged upon the
South by Mr. Buchanan's friends as the in.
ducement to southern delegates to administer
rebuke to President Pierce by the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Buchanan? None other than the
general allegation that the course of General
Pierce upon the slavery question has made
him unpopular at the North with Federalists,
Abolitionists, and Know Nothings and hence
the South should consider him an unav ALA BILE
candidate.
1t southern delegates yield to this argu-
ment, and dropping President Pierce for that
reason, land they cannot pretend to drop him
for any other) nominate Mr.. Buchanan, do
they not, By that act, instruct him to conciliate
in his administration Of public affairs north.
ern freesoil sentiment by the sacrifice of south
ern rights? Do they not instruct him to be
less devoted to the Constitution and the rights
of the States than President Pierce has been,
and would he not be bound by those instruo-
tiOns?
The South admit that, saving few unsatis-
factory appointments to Office, the administra-
tion of President Pierce has been unexcep-
tiOnable. They admit that he has, under all
circumstances and amid q storm and tempest
Of phrensy and faction unprecedented in the
annals of the Republic, borne aloft all unsul.
hed and unstained the flag of the Constitution
ana the Union. They admit that he has al.
ways hrst and last, had the heart to love and
the arm 70 defend the whole and every portion
Oh our oonisderaOy. They admit, in a word
that no PRESIDENT has ever been more devoted
to the maintenance of their rights. Thov ad.
| NIT all this, and then say that bscanss
Northern man has dared, in defiance OF mo.
mentary popular passion in his own section
thus to support and maintain Southern right,
under the Constitution he shall be prescribed
and struck down with ignominy.
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