The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-06
DEPARTgzSr or STATE,
Washington, August 26, 1906,

respects we have obtained ana now pupsh INC .Sowng
official correspondence;
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Washington, August rs, 1901 \
S The present condition of the Territory 81 Kansas
renders your duties governor highly responsible and
delicate In the instructions heruloore communicated
your predecessor in February last in the annual message
10 Congress Of the gath of the previous December and In
orders issued nom tie War Department printed copies OF
which are herewith furnished win find the policy of
the President fully presented. Ii Is first to maintain
order and quiet in the Territory of Kansas and second
if disturbances occur therein to bring to punishment the
offenders.
should the force which has been provided to attain these
objects prove insufficient you will promptly make known
that fact TO the President that he may take such
IN regard thereto to him may seem to be demanded
1t is important that the President should be kept well
informed the state Of things in Kansas and that the
source of his information should be such insure its
accuracy You therefore directed by him to commun
cate constantly With this department Such facts as il is
deemed important to have early known here, you viii
to be transmitted by telegraph as well as by mail
The President INDUCES hope that by your energy i'm
Partially, and discretion the tranquility of the Territory
will be restored and the persons and property OF our e
zens therein protected.
..~.. ... - W. L. MARCY
His Excellency john w. GEARy
Governor of Kansas Territory.
Enclosure No. ~
By The President Of The United States Of America.
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas indications exist that public tranquility and
the supremacy of law in the Territory of Kansas are
sons, both within and without the same who propose
direct and control its political organization by force 4
appearing that combinations have been formed therein
resist the execution of the territorial laws thus eli
feet subvert by violence all present constitutional and le
gal authority 1t also appearing that persons residing
without the Territory but its borders contemplate
armed Intervention in the affairs thereof 1t also appearing
that other persons, inhabitants of States col
lectng money engaging men, and providing arms for the
rinpf that
within the Territory endeayoring by the agency of
emissares and otherwise to induce individual States OF the
Union to intervene in the Affairs thereof in violation of the
constitution of the United States:
And whereas all such plans for the determination Of the
future institutions OF the Territory If carried into action
from within the same will constitute the fact of insurrec
ton and if from without that of invasive aggression and
WILL in either justify and require the forcble nterpo
son of the whole power of the general government as
well to maintain the laws of the Territory those
Union: -
Now, therefore, Franklin Pierce President of the Uni
ted States do issue this my proclamation to command
all persons engaged in unlawful combinations against the
constituted authority of the Territory of Kansas of the
United States to disperse and retire peaceaby to their
spectve abodes and to all such persons that any
tempted instruction in said Territory aggressive nru
sion into the same will be resisted not only by the
poyment of the local militia but also by that availa
BILE forces of the United States tho of assuring
punity from violence and full protection the persons
property and civil rights of all peaceful and lawabding
inhabitants of the Territory.
If in any part of the Union the fury of faction fana
csm, nfamed into disregard of the great principles of
IOpuldf WHICH, under the constitution
fundamental in the whole structure of institutions Is
to bring the country the dire calamity arbtra-
meat of in that Territory shall be between lawless
violence on the side and conservative force on the
other welded by legal authority of the general govern
ment
call the citizens both of adjoining and of distant
States to abstain from unauthorized ntermeddng in the
local concerns OF the Territory admonishng that its
organic law is TO be executed with impartial Justice that
all individual acts of illegal interference win incur condgu
punlshment and that endeavor intervene by or
gained force will be firmly withstood.
invoke all good citizens to promote order by rendering
obedience TO the law to seek remedy for temporary evils
by peaceful means to dscountenance and repulse the
counses and the instgatons of agatos and organ-
ihers and TO testify their attachment to their country
their pride in its greatness their appreciation Of the bless
ings they enjoy, and their determination that republican
institutions shall not fail in their hands, by cooperating
TO uphold the majesty of the laws and to rndcae the
sanctity Of the constitution
In testimony whereof have hereuno 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 our Lord one thousand
lsE eight hundred and hfty-sx and of the ndepend-
ence of the United States the eghtieth
FRANKLIN PIERCE
By the President:
W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.