Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-02-20

PROCLAMATION or THE President Touch
ING KANSAS AFTAlSs.-Wh shington, Feb. III.
The President issued = proclamation acting
forth that indications exist that the public
tranquility and supremacy Of the Law in Kan
saI is sndang0saG By tho rcprehensibls acts
or purposrs Of psrsous both within and with
out tho territory, uho propose 20 direcs and
sonirol iva political organization by force
that combinations have Keen formed therein
~ resist tha execution Of the territorial laws,
and thus, in sffsot, subvers, by violence all
present constitutional and legal authority;
that pers5us residing without the territory
but nsAr it's borders contemplate armed in
tsrvaution ia Ihs Affairs thersof; that other
persons. inhabitants oG remota States are col
Letting money, engaging men, snd providing
arms for ,Aa same purpose hatconbinauoa'
within the territory are endaaVorinE, by the
agency of smi.saries and other means, to IN
ducb indi ViduAl States Of the Union TO inter
vsus in the affairs thereof, in violation Of the
Constitution Of the United States. Al! such
plans Tor the determination Of the future ins-
t]i:utions ot the territory, II carried into exc
eutiOn from within the same, viii conEtltuts
. fact Of insurreetion; aud If from without,
that Of invasion or aggression and will, IN
either case, justify and require the fuTcIblc
intSrposition Of the whole power of the gene
raj governments, s. wall to maintain the laws
Of the territory es those Of the Union.
lie commands all persons engs ed in un-
lawful combinations against the constituted
authority Of tho territory in Kansas TO dis
psrTs and retire psacsablJ 10 thOir respective
abodeu, and warns all such persons that any
s~ttsnptsd insurrsetion in the territory or
aggressive intrusion into the same will be re-
sisted not only 10y tho employment Of the To-
cal militis, bat also by that Of any available
forcs If the Uoitsd States to tbs end Of as
surirg immunity from violence and full pro-
tsctiou 20 persons, property and civil rights
" oil peAcsAbls and law-ahidiug inhabitants
Of the territory. lf 10 any Iof the Union
the fury Of faction or fAnAtaciSn infAms1
into a disregard Of the general principles OF
popular sovereignty, which under the consti
sutton are fundamental in the whole structure
OF our institutions lie - brisE on the couRtry
the dire cIlAmnity Of tue aF~bitrGmenI Of Grmi
in thas territory, it shall be bstwssn lawles'
violence on the one side. 1nd s0nSsrvativ,
force on ths other, wisldsd by the legal al
shorty Of the gensrAl government.
Tbs Presidents calls On the citizens Of boil
adjoining and distant States to abstain from
unauthorized intermsddling in the local cor
Germ Of the territory, admonishing thcm tha
it's organic law is to be executed wish impair
tial iuGtics-thAt all individual actS Of illsgs
iBtsrfsrsucs will incur condixn puniShnSn
aud any sudsSVor TO intervene by an organ
E0d force will be FIRMLY WithStOod.
lis also inVokss all good citizens to pre-
mote order by rendering ossdisncS to til
Law, 10 diIcountsuAnss and rspulss the souu
sells and iOstiEattons Of disorEsniEsrs an
30 testify thar attachment to their sountr
-,hsir pride in it's gr~eatnsu--thsir appr,
citation Of the blessings thAy enjoy, and the
discrimination that Republican institution
shall nos rAll 10 thsir hands, by co-opsratin
TO uphold the majesty ofths Law, and to VII
dictate the sanclity 0f the constitution,