Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-02-22

By tie President of the Uaitsd States Of
America.

Proclamation.
By he President of tie United States o.
America.
Whereas indications exist that public
tranquility and the supremacy Of law in the
Territory Of Kansas are endangered BY the
reprehensable acts or purposes Of persons,
both within and without the same, who pro-
pose to direct and control its political organ
ilation by force: It appearing that combi-
nations have been formed therein to resist
the execution of tho territorial laws, and
thus in effect, subvert BY violence all pres
Unconstitutional and legal authority: 1t
also appearing that persons residing within
the Territory, but near its borders contem-
plate armed Intervention in the affairs there
Of: Il also appearing that other persons,
inhabitants Of remote States, are collecting
money, engaging men, and providing arms
for the same purpose: And it further ap-
peaFing that combinations within the Terri
tories are endeave=ing, by the agency of
enlissaries and otherwise, to induce individ-
ual States of the Union to intervene in the
afsirs thereof in violation of tho Constitu-
blOl OF Inc OQlJeQ OJaJoSs
And whereas all such plans for the deter
mination of the future institutions of the
Territory, if carried into action from with
in the same, will constitute the fact of in
surrection, and if from without, that of in
vasive aggression, and will in either case
Justify and require the forcible interposition
Of the whole power Of the General Govern
ment, as well TO maintain the laws of the
Territory as those of the Union:
Now therefore, ], Franklin Pierce, Presi-
dent Of the United States, do issue this my
proclamation to command all persons en-
gagged in unlawful combinations against the
constituted authority of the Territory of
Kansas or Of the United States to disperse
and retire peaceably to their abodes, and to
war; all such persons that any attempted in
surection in said Territory or aggressive in-
trusion into the same, will be resisted not
BY the employment Of the local militia but
alsoby that ofany available forces of the Uni
ted States: to the end of assuring immunity
from violence and full protection to the per-
sons, property, and civil rights of all peace
full and law-abiding inhabitants of the Ter
ritory.
Ifin any part of the Union, the fury of
faction or fanaticism, inhamed into diSre-
gard Of the great principles of popular SOW
.ereignty which, under the Constitution, are
fundamental in the whole structure of our
institutions, is to bring on the country the
dire calamity of an arbitrament of arms in
that Territory, it shall be between lawless
violence on the one side and conserva-
tive force on the other, welded by legal au-
thority of the General Government.
call on the citizens both of adjoining
and Of distant States, to abstain from unau-
thOrized intermeddling in the LOCAL concerns
of the Territory, admonishing them that its
organic law is to be executed with impartial
justice; that all individual acts of illegal in
reference will incur condign punishment;
and that any endeavor to intervene BY organ
lied force viii be firmly withstood.
Invoke all good citizens to promote or
der by rendering obedience 10 the law; to
seek remedy for temporary evils by peace
full means; to discountenance and repulse
the councils and the instigations of agitators
and Of disorganizers; and to testify their at
tachment to their country, their pride in its
greatness, their appreciation of the blessings
they enjoy, and their determination that
republican institutions should not fail in
their hands, by cooperating 10 uphold the
majesty of the laws and to vindicate the Sc
curity the Constitution.
In testimony whereof have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed to these pres
ents.
Done at the city of Washington the elev-
enth day of February, in the year of our
@Lord one thousand eight hundred
II and fity-six, and Of the indie
pendence of tho United States
- the eightieth.
---iia FRANKLIN PIERCE.
&. BY the President: WI. MARCY,
Secretary of State.