Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-02-14
PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT
KANSAS AFFAIRS

Washington, FEB. 1.-THE President
to-day issued a proclamation which will ap-
pear in the Union of tomorrow, setting
forth that indications exist that the public
tranquility and supremacy of the law in
Kansas is endangered by the reprehensible
acts or 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 of the ter
ritorial laws, and thus, in effect subvert, by
violence all 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 are collecting money, engaging men
and finding arms for the same purpose that
combinations within the territory are en-
deavoring, by the agency of emmissa-
ries, and other means, to induce individual
States Of the Union to intervene in affairs
thereof, in violation of the Constitution of
the United States.
AL such plans for the determination of
the future institutions of the territory if car
ried into execution from within the same
will constitute fact Of instruction and if
from without that of invasion or aggres-
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 persons engaged in I'M
lawful combinations against the constituted
authority Of the territory in Kansas to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their respec-
tive abodes, and warns all such persons that
any attempted instruction in the territory
or aggressive intrusion into the same will be
resisted, not only by the employment of the
local militia, but also by that of any availa-
bic force of the United States, to the end OF
assuring immunity from violence and full
protection to persons, property and civil
rights of all peaceable and law abiding in
habitants of the territory.
If in any part of the Union the fury OF
faction or fanaticism infamed into disre-
gard of the general principles of popular
sovereignty, which, under the Constitution
are fundamental in the whole structure Of
our Institutions, is to bring on the country
the dire calamity of the arbitrament of arms
in that territory, it shall be between lawless
violence ON the one side and conservative
force on the other, welded by the legal au.
thority of the general government.
The President calls on the citizens Of
both adjoining and distant States to abstain
from unauthorized intermeddling in the loca1
concerns Of the territory, admonishing them
that it's organic law is to be executed with
impartial justice That all individual acts
of illegal interference will incur condigr
punishment; and any endeavor to intervene
by any organized force will be firmly with.
stood.
He also invokes all good citizens to pro.
mote order by lending obedience to the law
to discountenance and repulse the counsel:
and instigations of disorganizers and to
testify their attachment to their country
pride in its greatness their appreciation Of
the blessings they enjoy, and their determi-
nation that Republican Institutions shall not
fail in their hands, by cooperating to up
hold the majesty of the law and to vindicate
the sanctity of the Constitution.
THE STEAMSHIP PERSIA. -This mammoth
steamship, which arrived at New York on
Saturday had her paddle wheels considera,
bly, injured during the trip across. About
one-third of the buckets were knocked of
during her encounter with enormous ice
{ fields off the Banks. The huge iron bars
which compose the frame were curled W
and twisted as if they had been pasteboard
Notwithstanding her disabled condition
however, the Persia made her last 800
miles to Sandy Hook in "A hours. After
leaving Liverpool, she attained an average
of IA miles an hour, until obstrueted by the
lice.
/ HArIfNG ON r1IE IcE A sled and horse