The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-28

take care that the laws Of the United States b
faithfully executed. they be opposed in the Isr G
ritory OF Kansas. he may and should place q "a,
disposal Of the marshal any public force OF the m
ted States which happens TO be within the Julisdc
tion 70 be used a. portion Of the posse com1otks
and, II that do not suffice to maintain order tner
he may call forth the militia of one or more State
for that object, employ for the same object any
part Of the land naval force of the United States
| SO also II the obstruction be to the laws o. tns
Territory, and 1t be duly presented 70 MN -
case of insurrection, he may employ for It's sup
preston the militia Of any State, the land ol
naval force OF the United States And II the Ier
ritory be invaded by the citizens Of other sfates
whether for the purpose of deciding elections ol
for any other, and the local authorities find them
selves unable to repel Withstand it. they VIII DC
entitled to- and upon the fact being fully ascertanes
they shall most certainly receive the aid OF tne
General Government. go
But it Is not the duty of the President of the
United States to volunteer nterpostion by force
preserve the purity Of elections either In State
or Territory. To do so would be subversive of pub
| lie freedom. And whether law be wise or un
wise, just or unjust is not . question Tor MIN to
judge If 1t be constitutienal-that is, if 1t be the
law of the landt is his duty to cause 1t 10 be exc
cuted to sustain the authorities of any State OF
Territory. in executing it in opposition to all in
| surrectionsry movements
Our system affords no justification Of revolution
ary acts for the constitutional means of relieving
tho people of unjust administration and laws, by q
change of public agents and by repeal, are ample
and more prompt and effective than illegal violence
These constitutional means must be scrupulously
guarded-this great prerogatiye of popular sover
eighty sacredy respected. rs
1t is the undoubted right of the peaceabe and or
derly people of the Territory OF Kansas to elect
their own legislative bsdy, make their own
laws, and regulate their own social institutions,
without foreign domestic molestaton. Inter
ference, on the hand, to procure the abolition
prohibition of slave labor in the Territory has
produced mischievous interference, on the other,
for its maintenance or introduction. One wrong
begets another. Statements entirely unfounded,
or grossly exaggerated, concerning events within
the Territory, sedulously diffused through re.
mote States to feed the fame of sectional anlmos
ty there and the agitators there exert themselves
.defatigably in return to encourage and stimulate
strife within the Territory.
The inflammatory agitation, OF which the pre-
sent is but part has for twenty years produced
nothing save uumitigated evil, North and South
But for it the character of the domestic institutions
of the future new State would have been a matter
of too little interest to the inhabitants of the con-
tiguous States, personally or collectively to pro.
duce among them any political emotion Climate.
SOIL production, hopes of rapid advancement, and
the pursuit Of happiness on the part of the settlers
themselves, with good wishes but with no inter.
ference from without, would have quietly deter.
mined the question which is at this time of such
disturbing character.
But we are constrained to turn our attention to
the circumstances of embarrassment as they now
exist 1t is the duty of tho people of Kansas
to discountenance every act or purpose of resist
ance to it's laws. Above all, the emergency ap-
peals to the citizens of the States and especially
of those contiguous to the Territory, neither by in
tervention of nOnresidents in elections, nor by
authorized military force, to attempt to encr0ach
upon or usurp the authority Of the inhabitants of
the Territory.
:. No citizen of our country should permit himself
to forget that he is part OF its Government, and
entitled to be heard in the determination Of its
policy and its measures; and that, therefore, the
highest considerations of personal honor and pa
triotism require him to maintain, by whatever of
power or influence he may possess, the integrity
of the laws of the Republic.
Entertaining these views, it will be my impera-
tive duty to exert the whole power of the Federal
Executive to support public order in the Terrific
nv; TO vihdicate its laws-whether federal or To-
cal against all attempts of organized resistance; !;
and to protect Its people in the establishment of
their own institutions, undisturbed by encI oach-
ment from without, and in the full enjoyment of
the rights of self lfgovernment assured to them by
the Constitution and the organic act Of Congress.
Although serious and threatening disturbances
in the Territory of Kansas, announced to me by
the Governor in December last, were speedily
quieted without the efusion of blood, and in sat
isfactory manner there is, regret to say, reason
to apprehend that disorders will continue to occur
there, with increasing tendency to violence, until
some decisive measure be taken to dispose of the
question itself which constitutes the inducement
or occasion of internal agitation and Of external
interference
This, it seems to me, can best be accomplished
by providing that, when the inhabitants OF Kansas
may desire it, and shall be of sufficient numbers to
constitute State, a convention Of delegates duly
elected by the qualified voters, shall assemble to
frame a constitution, and thus to prepare through
regular and lawful MEANS for its admission into
the Union as State
I respectfully recommend the enactment of q
law to that effect.
recommend, also that q special appropriation
be made to defray any expenses which may be-
come requisite in the execution of the laws the
maintenance of public order in the Territory of
Kansas FRANKLIN PIERCE