The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-02-23
The gsfalo Of Freedom.
! .xreuee, saturday. Feb. %. 1855.
proc,smation by the President.

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Frank Pierce has issued proclama-
ton which is from the same piece with
his late Kansas message, and is only cal
o,lated to hasten the invasion which he
elo;ms be desires to avert. He forbids
the eisizsnsof the Territory from defend
;nc themselves. and forbids the North
from extending their sympathy to US.
The President pledges bis support, as
ususi, to the demons of the slave power,
and commands the people to submit to
their damning enactments. He should
be impeaehed for the aid and comfort he
lends the Border Rufians, in strength
,ening their hands and melting them to
further violence.
A dispatch from Washington, dated
Feb. 19th, contains the substance of the
proclamation, as follows:
WAsHISGToN, Feb. 12.
The President to-day issued a proc
hmation which will appear in the Union
tomorrow, setting forth that indications
exist that public tranquility and the su-
premacy of the law in Kansas. are en-
dangered by the reprehensible acts and
purposes of persons both within and
without the Territory, who purpose to
direct and control its political organiza-
ton by force. That combinations have
been formed therein to resist the execu-
ton of the Territorial law and thus in
effect to subvert, by violence, all the
present constitutional and legal authori-
ties. That persons residing without the
Territory, but near Its borders, contem-
plated armed Intervention in the affairs
thereof. That the inhabitants of remote
States are collecting and engaging men
and providing arms for the same pur-
poses. That combinations within the
Territory. by the agency of emissaries
and other means, to induce individual
States of the Union to interfere in the
affairs thereof in violation of the Consti-
tuition of the United States. Plans for
the determination of future Institutions
of che Territory, if carried on within the
same, will constitute the fact of insur-
reetion, and if from without, that OF inya-
sive aggression, and will, in either case,
Justify and require the forcible'interposi-
ton of the whole power of the General
Government as will maintain the laws
thereof and the Union.
He commands all persons engaged in
unlawful combinations against the con-
stituted authority of the Territory of Kan
sas to disperse and retire peaeeably to
their respective abodes, and warns all
such persons that any attempted insur
rection in the Territory, or aggressive in
trusion 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 troops to the
end of assuming immunity from violence,
and fufi protection to persons and proper
ty, and the civil rights of peaceable and
hw-abiding inhabitants Of the Territory.
lin any part of the Union the fury or
bction of fanaticism. inhamed into a
disregard of the general principles of
popular sovereignty, which under the
Constitution are fundamental to the
wholestructure of our institutions if to
), bring on the country the dire calamity of
afbitrament of arms In the Territory, it
shall be between lawless violence on one
side and conservative force on the other,
welded by the legal authority dthe Gen.
eral Government.
The President calls on the citizens OF
both adjoining and distant States TO ab-
stain from unauthorized .intermeddling
with the local concerns of the Terri
tory, admonishing them that its organic
law is to be executed with impartial JUS
tice, and that all individualacts OF illegal
interference will incur condign punish.
ment, and any endeavor to interfere viii
be withstood.