Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-02-28
By the President of the United States o.
America.
APPROXIMATION.

A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, indications exist that public
tranquility and the supremacy of law in the
Territory of Kansas are endangered by the
reprehensible acts or purposes, both within
and without the same, who promise TO direct
and control lis political organization by force:
Ii appearing that combinations have been
formed therein to resist the execution Of the
Territorial laws, and thus, in effect, subvert
by vinlencs all constitutional and legal au-
lhority: II also appearing that persons re-
siding without the Territory, but near its
border, contemplate armed Intervention III
The affairs thereof: 1t also appearing thai
other persons, inhabitants Of remote States
are collecting money, engaging men, and
providing arms for the same purpose: And
it further appearing that combinations with
in the Territotory are endeavoring, by the
agency of emissaries and otherwise, toin-
duoe individual States Of the Union to inter
vene in the affairs thereof, in violation Of
the constitution of the United States:
And whereas, all such plans Tor the de-
Illumination Of the future institutions Of the
Territory, il carried into action from within
the same, will constitute the fact ofinsrrer-
.ection, and if from without, that Of inva-
sive aggression, and will, in either case,
justify and require the forcible inierposition
Of the whele power of the general govern
ment, as well as to maintain the laws Of the
Territory as those of the Union:
Now, therefore, I, Franklin Pierce, Pres
ident of the United States, do issue this my
proclamation to command all persons engag.
ed in unlawful combinations against the
constituted authority Of the Territory oi
Kansas or Of the United States, 10 disperse
and retire peaceably TO their respective
abodes, and to warn all such persons thai
any attempted insurrection in said Territory
or aggressive intrusion into the same, vii
be resisted not only by the employment ofth'
local militia, but also by that ofany available
forces Of the United States; to the end of as
suring immunity from violence, and full
protection to the per sons, property and civ
il rights of all peaceful and law abiding in
habitants of the Tereitory.
II, in any part Of the Union, the fury @
faction or fanaticism, inhamed into disregard
of the great principles Of popular sovereign
! ty which, under the constitution, are iunda
mental in the whole structure of our insitu
tions, is TO bring on the country the dire ca
, lamity Of an arbitrament Of arms in thG
Territory, it shall be between violence o
the one side and conservative force on III
other, welded by legal authority Of the ger
eral Government.
call on the citizens, both Of adjonin
0 and distant States, to abstain from unauthol
lied intermeddling in the local concerns
: the Territory, admonishng them that its ol
ganic law is to be executed with imparti
u Justice; that all individual acts of illegal il
: reference will incur condlgn punishment
> and that any endeavor 10 intervene by organ
lied force will be firmly withstood.
invoke all good citizens TO promote o
der by rendering obedience 10 the law;
seek remedy for evils by peaceful mean
TO discounIenancc and repulse the counse
=. and instigaion Of ugitators and Of disnrga
; izers; and to testify attachment TO the
k country, their pride in lis greatness, The
, appreciation OF the blessings they enjoy, al
their determination that republican nstit
lions shall not fall in their hands, by co o
Grating 10 uphold the majesty of the Law
and 10 yindicate the sanctily OF the cons
~ tuition.
In testimony whereof, l have hereun
set my hand, and caused the seal Of the u
:. ted States TO be affixed to these presents.
Done at the city of Washington, the ele
, enth day of February, in t
SEAL year OF our Lord one thousa
g \---~/ eight hundred and fifty six, a
lr of the independence of the United Stat
l. the eightieth.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.