The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-12-20
Presidents Message.

uC IIeSlutut ScHl HIS Auuudl Mes
sage to Congress on the ID inst. 1t is
a document which can reflect no credit
on its author. 1t is worthy the head
of party, but is too puerile for the
head of a great nation. His arguments
justify the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise. and are sophistical and Who'll
ly out of place, designed to bolster up
the last days of his administration.
He ascribes all the troubles in Kan
sas to Northern agitators; but says the
whole amount of violence was not
greater than occasionally takes place
in single city, and is of no pcrma-
nent consequence.
While reading that document, ne
felt to thank heaven we had been pi-
ously educated, for we are confident
nothing else could have saved express
sions which good christians would
have censured US for using.
We make the following extracts, SO
far as relates to Kansas affairs:
"Of this last agitation, one lamen-
table feature was, that it was carried
on at the immediate expense of the
peace and happiness of the people OF
the Territory of Kansas. That was
made the battlefield, not so much of
opposing factions or interests within
itself, as of the conflicting passions of
the whole people of the United States.
Revolutionary disorder in Kansas had
its origin in projects of intervention,
deliberately arranged by certain mem
| bers of that Congress, which enacted
the law for the organization of the
Territory. And when propagandist
colonization of Kansas had thus been
undertaken in one section of the Uni
ON, for the systematic promotion OF
its peculiar views of policy, there en-
sued, as matter of course, a counter
action with opposite views, in other
sections of the Union.
elm consequence of these and other
incidents, many acts of disorder it is
undeniable, have been perpetrated in
Kansas. to the occasional interruption
rather than the permanent suspension,
of regular government. Aggressive
and most reprehensible incursions into
the Territory were undertaken, both in
the North and the South, and entered
it on its northern border by the way OF
Iowa, as well as on the eastern by way
of Missouri; and there has existed
within it state of instruction against
the constituted authorities, not without
countenance from incoDsidcrate per.
sons in each of the great sections Of
the Union. But the difficulties of that
Territory have been extravagantly ex'
aggerated for purposes of political ag.
itation elsewhere The number anC
gravity of the acts of violence hay,
been magnifed partly by statement;
entirely untrue, and partly by reiterat
ed accounts of the same rumor or facts
Thus the Territory has been secn,inei,
filled Nth extreme violence, ahen the schol
amount of such acts has not been create
than aohat occasionally passes before az
IN single cities, TO the regret Of all goot
citizens, but sOittout being regarded as O
general or permanent political conSe
Iquence.
Imputed irregularities in the elee
ltions had in Kansas, like occasiona
irregularities of the same description
in the States, We're beyond the spher,
of action of the Executive. But in
cidents of actual violence, or of or
ganized obstruction of law, pertinaci
ously renewed from time to time, hav
!, been met as they occurred, by sucl
means as were available and as the cir
cumstances required and nothing @
this character now remains to affect til
general peace of the Union. The at
tempt of part of the inhabitants Q
the Territory to erect a revolutionar
government, though sedulously EN-
couraged and supplied with pecuniar
aid from active agents of disorder i
some of the States, has completed
failed. Bodies of armed men, foreig
to the Territory, have been preyente
from entering or compelled to leave il
Predatory bands, engaged in acts o
rapine, under cover of the existing Do
litical disturbances, have been arreste,
or dispersed. And every well dispos
ed person is now enabled once more t,
devote himself in peace to the pursuit
of prosperous industry, for the prose
cution of which he undertook to pan
ticipate in the settlement of the Tel
ritory.
"It affords me unmingled satisfac
ton thus to announce the peaceful con
dition of things in Kansas, especial
, considering the means to which it wa
necessary to have recourse for the at
tainment of the end, namely, the EN-
ployment of a part of the militar
force of the United States. The with
drawal of that force from its prope
duty of defending the country agains
foreign foes or the savages of the from
, tier, to employ it for the suppressio
of domestic instruction, is, when th
exigency occurs, a matter of the mos
earnest solieitude. On this occasio
of imperative necessity, it has bee
done with the best results, and my sai
J isfaction in the attainment of such n
suits by such means is greatly enhan,
ed by the consideration, that, throug
) the wisdom and energy of the presel
Executive of Kansas, and the prudens
: frmness and vigilance of the militai
e officers on duty there, tranquility b.
a been restored without one drop
> blood having been shed in its accom-
lplishment by the forces of the Unite
S States.
: 1.-The restoration of comparati,