The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-02-11

upOh rAutsas; anu WHICH, II EeSpOuueu 10 Dl the
Legislature in a spirit of kindness and concilla-
ton, will contribute much to soothe those feel
ings of bitterness and contention which in the
past brought upon US such untold evils.
l arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the ninth
day of September last, and Immediately assumed
the executive functions. On the eleventh, | is
sued my Inaugural Address. declaring the gene
raj principles upon which intended to admin
lister the government. In this address solen,nly
pledged myself to support the Constitution Of the
United States, and to discharge my duties as Go
vernon of Kansas with fidelity; to sustain all the
provisions ofthe Organic Act, which ] pronoun
ced to be "eminently just and beneficial to
stand by the doctrine of popular sovereignty, or
the will of the maoIity of the actual bona ftsin
habitants, wien legtimately expressed which |
characterized 'the imperative rule Of civil action
fore every law abiding citizen" The gigantic e.
wis under which this Territory was groaning,
were attributed to outside influences, and the
people of Kansas were earneslyinyoked to sus-
pend unnatural STRIFE to Danish all extraneous
and improper influences from their deliberations
and in the spirit of reason and mutual cOncilia-
ton to adjust their own differences. Such sug
gestions in relation to notifications of the pres
ent statutes as deemed for the public interest,
were promised at the proper time. 1t was de-
cared that this Territory is the common prop
erty of the people of the several States and that
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tlement, while in Territorial condition, by the
! citizens of every State of the Union. A just
1 Territorial pride was sought to be infused; a
pledge was solcmnly given to know no party, no
section, nothing but Kansas and the Union-and
the people were earnestly invoked to bdry the
past in oblivion; to suspend hostities and re(rain
from the indulgence of bitter feeling; to begin a.
new; to devote themselves to the true and sub
stantial interests Of Kansas; develop her rich ag-
ricultural and mineral resources; build up NAM
nfactures; make public roads and other works Of
public improvement; prepare amply for the edu-
cation of their children devote themselves to all
the arts Of peace, and make this Territory the
sanctuary of those cherished principles which
protect the inalienabe rights of the individual
and elevate States in their sovereign capacities.
The foregoingisa brefsummary of the prin
ciples upon which my administration was com
menced I have steadily adhered to them and
time and trial have but served to strengthen my
convictions of their justice. ......
Concident with my Inaugural were issued
two Proclamations, the one disbanding the Ter
ritorial militia, composed of mixed force of cit
izens and Others, aud commanding "all bodies of
men, combined, armed and equipped with muni-
tons of war, without authority of government,
instantly to disband or quit the Territory, as
they would answer the contrary at their peril"
the other, ordering "al free male citizens quali-
fled to bear arms between the ages Of eighteen
and forty-fvc years, to enrol themselves, that
they might be completely organized by compa
MES, regiments, brgades and divisions, and hold
themselves in readiness to be mustered, by my
order into the service Of the United States, upon
requisiton of the commander of the military de-
partment in which Kansas is embraced, for the
4. suppression ofall unlawful combinations, and for
the maintenance ofpubGo order and civil govern
ment."
The policy Of these proclamatons IS so ev-
dent and their beneficial results have been so
apparent as to require no viidcatioh.
The Territory was declared by the acting
Governor to be in state of insurrection; the
civil authority was powerless--entirely without
capacity to yindicate the majesty of the lawand
restore the broken peace; the existing difficulties
were ofa far more complicated character than
had anticipated; predatory bands, whose sole
aim, unrelieyed by the instgaton of political
causes, was assassination, arson, plunder and ra-
! pine, had dundisputed possession ofsomc portions
Of the Territory, while every part of it was kept
in constant alarm and terror by the advocates Of
political sentiments, uniting according to their
respective sympathies, in formidable bodies of
armed men, completely equipped with munitions
of war, and resolved upon mortal determination
as the only hope ofpeace; unoffendirg and pea
coablc citizens were driven from their homes;
others murdered in their own dwellings which
were given to the flames; that sacred respect for
woman, which has characterized all civilized
nations seemed in the hour of mad excitement
to be forgotten; partizan feeling, on all sides,
intensely excited by a question which intamed
/ the entire nation, almost closed the minds oft
people against me; idle and mendacous rumors
well calculated to produce evaporation and de-
Glannn xyaro auopy,ypharo nj tho most
unfortunate suspicious prevailed; in isolated
country places no mans life was safe; robberies
and murders were Of daily occurrence; nearly
every farm house was deserted; and no traveller
escort. This state of affairs was greatly aggra-
vated by the interference of prominent poit-
clans outside of the Territory. 1s ia. h9ov
The foregoing is but a faint outline Of the fear
fdl, condition ofthings which ruled Kansas and
convulsed the nation. The full picture. will be
drawn by the iron pen ofimpartial history, and
the actors in the various scenes will be assigned
their true position.
came here stranger to your difficulties, with
tout prejudice, with solemn sense ofmy official
obligations, and with lofty resolution to put
speedy termination to events SO fraught with
evil, and which, if unchecked, would have hoated
the country into the,most bloody civil war. T
| Hesitation, or partizan affiliations would have
resulted Uncertain failure, and only served furth-
ersto complicate affairs. To restore peace and
order, and relieve the people from the evils un-
der which they We're laboring, itwas necessary
that an impartial, independent and just policy