Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-09-12
Gov. Geary,s Tnstructions.
New York, Sept. 6.

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| A lengthy correspondence between The
| Departments at Washington and the au
thoritios in Kansas, is published, together
with the instructions to Col Geary, the
newly appointed Governor, who was at St
Louis on the 4th inst, enroute for the scene
of disturbance-The force of troops being
inadequate to the exigeneies of the case,
the Governor is ordered to enroll and or
ganize the militia of the Territory. One
division under Gen. Richardson is already
in the field. Requisitions have been made
upon the Governors of Kentucky and Hi
nois for two Regiments of Infantry, to be
placed under the enrolment of General
Smith to aid in suppressing insurreetionary
combinations against the Constitutional
Government of Kansas. Secretary Marcy
writes as follows to Gov. Geary:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
WASHINGTON, August 26.
SR:-The present condition Of the Ter
ritory of Kansas renders your duties as
Governor highly responsible and delicate.
In the instructions heretofore communicated
to your predecessor in February last in the
annual message to Congress ofthe oath of
the previous December, and in orders issued
from the War Department. printed copies
of which are hereby furnished, you will find
the policy of the President fully represent
ed. 1t is, first to obtain order and quiet in
the Territory of Kansas; and secondly; if
disturbances do occur therein, to bring to
punishment the offenders. Should the force
which has been provided to obtain these
objects prove insufficient you will promptly
make known the same to the President,
that he may take such measures in regard
thereto as to him may seem to be demand
ed by the exigencies Of the case. 1t is i'm
portant the President should be kept well
informed as TO the state of things in Kansas
and that the source of his information should
be such as to insure its accuracy. You are
therefore directed to communicate with this
Department. Such facts as it is deemed
important to be early known here, will
cause to be transmitted by telegraph as well
as by mail The President INDUCES hope
that by your energy, impartiality and dis
cretion, the tranquility of the Territory
will be restored, and the persons and prop
erty of our citizens protected. w. L. MARCY.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
WASHINGTON. Semtember, I'd.
SR:-Reliable information has reached
the President that armed and organized
bodies of men, avowedly in rebellion against
the Territorial Government have concentra-
ted in such numbers as to require addition
al military force for their dispersion. You
will have the militia of the Territory enroll
ed and organized, to the end that they may
on short notice be brought into service of
the United States, upon the requisition of
the Commander ofthe Military Department
in which Kansas is embraced. You will
furnish by Companies, or Regiments, or
Brigades, or Divisions, such numbers as you
from time to time may find on his report
to you to be necessary for the suppression
of all combinations to resist the laws of the
United States too powerful to be suppress
ed by the civil authorities, and for the
maintainance of public order and civil good
in the Territory, (signed WV. L. MARCY.
To his Execellency, ]. w. Geary.