New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-12
KANSAS IRS-PROCLAMATI0N BY THE
PRESIDENT.
WAsHINGToS, Monday, De-

WAsHIN6ToS, Monday, Dec II, 1856.
The President to-day issued Proclamation, which
will appear in The Union to- morrow, setting forth that
indications exist that public tranquility and the
premacy Of the law in Kansas is endangered by the
reprehensbe acts and purposes of persons both within
and without the Territory who propose to direct aad
control is political organization by force that CON-
bnations have been formed therein TO resist the exc
cuton Of the Territorial laws, and thus, in effect,
subve by violence all the present Constitutional and
legal authority; that persons residing without the
Territory but near its borders, contemplate armed
Intervention in the affairs thereof that other
persons inhabitants Of remote States, collecting
money, engaging men and providing arms for the same
puruose; that combinations within the Territory
endeavoring, by the agency of emisssres and other
means. TO induce individual States of the Union 10
interfere in the affairs thereof violation Of the Con-
sttution of the United States. All such plans for the
determination Of the future institutions of the Tenn
tory if carried into execution from within the same
will constitute the fact of insurTectibn, and if from
without that Of invasive aggression and will in either
case Justify and require the forcible nterposon OF
the whole power of the General Government as well
TO maintain the laws of the Territory those Of the
Union.
He commands all persons engaged in unlawful COM
binations against the constituted authority Of te Ter
ritory of Kansas, TO dSperse and retire peacaby TO
their respective abOdes; and warns all such persons
that any attempted insure cion in the Territory
aggressive intrusion into the same, will be resisted
not only by the local militia but also by that Of any
available force of the United States Government, TO
the end Of assuring immunity from violence, and full
protection persons property. and the civil rghtsOf
peacable and wabidng inhabitants Of the Territory.
IT, in any part of the Union, the fury of faction
fanaticsm, infamed into disregard of the general
principles Of popular sovereignty, which, under the
Constitution are fundamental in the whole structure
Of our Institutions is to bring the country the dire
calamity of arbitrament of arms in that Territory, it
shall be between awless violence on side and con-
seryative force on the other, welded by the legal
authority of the General Government.
The President calls the citizens, both of adjoining
and distant States TO abstain from unauthorized inter
meddling in the local concerns Of the Territory ad-
monishing them that its organic law to be executed
with impartial justice; that all individual acts of H.
legal interference will incur condign punishment, and
any endeavor to intervene will be firmly wthstOod.
He invokes all good citizens TO promote order by
rendering obedience to the law; TO discountenance
and repuse the counsels of instigaos and dsorgan-
izers and to testify their attachment to their country
their pride in its greatness, their appreciation Of the
blessings they enjoy, and their determination that
republican institutions shall not fail in their hands by
cooperating to uphold the majesty of the laws aud to
viDdcate the sanctity of the Constitution.