Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-02-13
Trouble IL Kansas-.Besis:anoe to the Laws
Proclamation By the President.



The President has to-day issued procla-
nation, which viii be published Tomorrow.
setting forth that indications exist that the
rnblie TRANQUILITY, and the supremacy of the
law in Kansas, are endangered by the repre-
hensibIe acts and purposes Of persons, both
within and without the Territory, who propose
to direct and control its political organization
by force; that combinations have been form
ed therein to resist the execution cf the Ter
ritorial laws, aud thus, in effect, subvert by
violence all the present constitutional aud lie :
gal authority that persons residing cut OF
the territory, but near It's borders, contem
plate an armed intervention in the affairs
thereof that other persons, Inhabitants of re-
mote States are collecting hourly, engaging
men, and providing arms for the same pur-
pose; and that combinations within the terri
tory are endeavoring by the agency Of ennis
saries and other means, to induce individual
States of the Union to intervene in the affairs
thereof in violation Of the Constitution Of the
United States All such plans for the deter
niuation of the future Institutions Of the Ter
ritory, if carried into execution from within.
the same will constitute fact OF insurrectlon;
and. if from without, that Of invasive argres-
sion, and WILL in either case, justify and re-
quire the forcible interposition Of the whole
power of the general government, as well TO
maintain the laws of the Territory as those Of
the Union. He commands all pefsosns enga-
ged in unlawful combinations againstt the con-
stituted authority Of che Territory of Kansas.
to disperse and retire peaceably to their res
pective abodes; and warns all such persons
that any attempted insurrection IN the Terri
tory, or aggressive intrusion into the same,
will be resisted, not only by the employment
of the local militia, but also by that Of any
available force of the United States, to the
end of assuring immunity from violence and
full protection to persons anG property, and
the civil rights of all the peaeeabls and law
abiding inhabitants of the Territory. If in
any part of the Union, the fury OF faction or
fanatcism, iDfamed into q disregard of the
general principles of popular sovereignty,
which, under the Constitution, are fundamen-
tai in the whole structure Of our institutions,
is to bring upon the country the dire calami-
ty Of the arbitrament of arms III that territory,
it shall be between lavless violence ON one
side and conservative force on the other, wiel-
ded by the legal authority of the General
Government.
The President calls On the citizens, both of
tie adjoining and of distant States, to abstain
from unauthorized intermeddling IN the local
concerns Of the Territory, admonishing them
that It's organic law is to be executed with i'm
partial Justice; that all individual acts of ille-
gal Interference viii incur condign punish
ment, and any euasavor to intervene by or
gauized force viii be frmly withstood. He
iuvokes all good citizens to promote order by
rendering obedience to the law, and to dis
countenance and repulsc the counsels of in
stlgators and disorgauizers. and to testify their
attachment to their country, their pride in its
greatness, their appreciation Of the blessings
they enjoy, and their determination that Re
publican institutions shall not fail in their
hands, by cooperating to uphold the majesty
of the laws, and TO yindicatc the sanctity of
the Constitution.