Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-04
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
BY THE PRESIDENT:
 W. L. MAECY, SacM of .Gtate.
No. 6. Resneai1g Distu5aaceS ia hanaas 71i7Ttgg BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF
 AMERICA:
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LAtNfetftNu I/TefHfOQNC(S BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF
 A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS indications exist that public tranouilitv and the supremacy of law in the Territory of Kansas are endangered by the rcureensila nets or Duruosns of persons. both within and without the sane who propose to direct and control it's political orraniza- | ton ny force It appearing that combinations have | been formed therein to resist the execution of the Territorial laws and thus in effect subvert by vio
 cnec all present constitutional and legal authority: | It also appearing that persons residing without the Territory, but near its borders. contemplate armed
 intervention in the affairs thereof It also appearing that other persons. inhabitants of remote States are collecting money. engaging men. and providing arms for the same purpose: And it further appearing that combinations within the Territory are endeavorng. l by the agency of emissares and otherwise to induce l individual States of the Union to intervene in the affairs thereof, in violation of the Constitution of the l United States:
 And whereas all such plans for the determination of the future institutions of the Territorv if carried
 into action from within the same, will constitute the fact of insurrection and if from without. that of invasive aggression, and will, in either case justify and require the forcihle interpoSition of the whole power of the General Government. well to main tain the laws of the Territory as those of the Union:
 Now, therefore l, FRANKLIN PIERCE Presi- dent of the United States, do issue this my proca- nation to command all persons engaged in unlawful combinations against the constituted authority of the Territory of Kansas or of the United States to dis pese and retire peaceabv to their respective aboes and to warn all such persons that any attempted n sTrection in said Territory or aggressive intrusion into the same. will be resisted not only by the en plovment of the local militia but also by that of anv available forces of the United States to the end of assuring immunity from violence and full protection to the persons property and civil ripbs of II peace ful and law abiding Inhabitants of the Territory
 If in any part of the Union the fury of faction or flnacism, infiamed into disregard of the great prn cpes of popular sovereignty, which under the Con sttuton. fundamental in the whole structure of tbn 1ira calamity of an arbrament of arms in that Territory it shall be between lawess violence the one side, and conservative force on the other welded by legal authority of the General Government. l call on the citizens both of adjoining and of distant States, to abstain from unauthorized inter meddling in the local concerns of the Territory ad monShing them that its organic law is to be eXecut ed with impartial justice; that all individual acts of illegal int, rterenee will incur condign pnishment and that any endeavor tontervene by organized force will be firmly withstood.
 invoke all good citizens to promote order by ren- derng obedience to the law; to seek remedy for tenn porary evils by peaceful means to discountenance and repulse the counses and the instgations of as tators and of disorganzers; and 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 shall fail in their hands by cooperating uphold the majesty of the laws and to vndicate the sanctity of the Constitution.
 In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents
 Done at the city of Washington, the llth day of r. =, February, in the year of our Lord 1856, and
 L sI of the Independence of the United States the eighdeth.
 FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY THE PRESIDENT:
 W. L. MARCY, .Sc'y gf Sate. No. '. Respectiag Boatnda1y aoah Merico. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF AMERICA.
 A PROCLAMATION.
 WHEREAS pursuant to the first article of the treaty