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A Family Paper, devoted to State Intelligence, the News of the World, Political Information, Southern Rights, Agriculture, Literature, and Miscellany. Q BY JOHN J. PALMER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. J CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. JLJME4. Office on Main Street, ONE DOOR SOUTH OF SADLER'S HOTEL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1856. NUMBER 28. OP TIIK Western WMmocxat AND tr Having r. - ntly visited New-York, ami Be ll . t- d from the old ami elegant Foundry t.f Gen. Brace, Esq., A iiL'AXTrrr or Jlrui nnMasjjionahUCinir, We ar- now prepared to Execute In tnc Bost Style, iD0ID multiply the lit suits,' J . , ..f sin- i-i;d'i -lu ll nmximeof business. 0 -. S ' ' OUIil.KS Kl pamphlet, MANDRILLS, C.K!S. t iKt 1 !. AKS, i CLERKS' RT JINKS SHERIFF'S do. CONSTAHLES' do. , MAOISTKATESM... I.AIKKLS, ITTOKXEYS' do. OB KK Ucuiurcd ly the business Community, wu.i. r.r. eK' I tki with tvt izs a. t rr s s ? ,,)SP A T II A 'D .;u d err u.ij ::'u ... . s . S Vnriovis Asinc3Ljs of II LA A I ALWAYS ON HAND. - u (f rttuto to (Drkr.GSj S. V. IVESTBBOOMS, Proprietor I" t lio Guilford POM0L0GICAL GARDENS ANH iXTvirseries, lirol'l.h wnpeUfwHy call the attention of V W 1 1 S ultu i n citivUfl to his s. ! ri rolW-C-lii.n ut" native ami :iedin:ited v:iriii. t" l'KM TT TREES, i MWwrit mot KOKTY THOUSAND iiereef tin feBewing m kttf , t!: Apple, 1 :t r, 1 -:-1 . riiim. Apricot, Cheery, NtctaYiat', Ai wnwd A!- a choice MMTtwal f GKAPE- INKS. RaBpkmW, Strawberries. A c Vc. CvAII orders, aecanManinl with the cash, will i itb mmI at tent ion, :nl Ike tiers will h n atlv packed and directed to any portion of tit.- country. IV S. PrCMM wishing Ornamental To-, s can ! tittli. !. Address Ql, Ixmi. N. I . 4. I-.V. . :mm Eating and Rcl i4Iiiiicii t SALOON. rBllll. andmsigsed takes this method t r M. turn his thanks t his triinls for the libe ral cncoura'incnt which has lfii t-nJ 1 to him in Ins lin- of lmsin ss. anl to (Bfona ill in that h- has m41 h;s stablishniMit to llr. .1. A1 kinson, who will continue the lmsiness at tin MM stand. I shall P inain in the BMW, M lier -tofore. and will 1h- happy to reivivi- the calls of my frii-nds. as nsnal. Freli Aorfblk Oytcrs WW at all times lx kept on hand and erred mm iu anv stvlc u-sir-d. Fine Tobacco, Segars, Wines. Brandies. Aud the bet of Liquors generally, Alwavs on hand. MV..M.S. of such dishes as may he calk d tor. s. r . ,1 up at all hours, in the most ap proved style of t ookery. Way Hoarder At- taken, nmm reasonahle terms. Call at the BatoM, two doors nonh of Kerr s TUh l. if von desir. som. thiujr nice to at and drink aud to n--t tiie inner mail. W. H. JORDAN, IVc 1-nVv tt for .1. Adkinson FASHIONABLE TAILORINgT THE subscriber announces to the public generally, that he is now receiving a large assort ment of new Cloths, Cassimeres AND 1 for Gentlemen's wear, and will be sold for Catk at a unall !f;t der according to the latest style's. Shop next .wm w cims' grocery store. cPt- 29, 1854. 10-tf D. L. RE A. in ... i BE EARNEST lie earnest straggle on, and up, The ragged hill of life ; Drink to the dregs the brimming cup, Of earnest toil and strife. Rouse dream not all thy hours away, Labor and toil, aud strive ; This is no world for idle play ; A reckoning must arrive. Be earnest gird thine armour on, Look not at praise of men ; Look for the praise of only one, The Great and Holy Lamb. lie earnest wake thy sluggish soul, Rouse for the noble fight : Give up thy heart: yea, give the whole; And work, with all thy might. Rest not place high aloft thj mark, Place it in Heaven above, TWea aim; periapt the way'U s. eni dark, The light will conn Ged Love. Be earnest stup not, no delay At in the pre ut hour ; Y. a, art; rim acting, humbly pray, TkU o.d .ll!d give thee power. Reearuest .lu.iijrh thy labor seem To th. i . to c xue to nought, Wotk oi. re long a lleaveuly gleam Will shW wliat thou hast wiouglit. Re ratO i the (Jreat Master toiled, Atul iimyed, and why not we 1 I! Mil -i in th" service of Hint, the "(lii'.-ii One in Three-" And w1m-u at bmt, thy toil is e'er, M ie n (JeallTs ilaik hour shall come, 1 in u'ltli ar the welcome ines.-age sound, - r-ant, thou well bast done." ENCOURAGE THIS KNOCKING. rBlHK nnhiMigtied bega h ave ft. to return his t banks to those arha Bivored him with call dur ing the 1 it year; and he would respectfully iufaMTUI the public that be has n UOVed to the Maehiue Rhop formerly orcapied by M ssrs. fteotvr iV W bisnant, adjeouag Mr. J. Uu lisill's fleam Planing Mills, where be is prepared to execute all work in his line as cheap and as, good as can be don.- in the State. Taraing, Cut tin? Screws, 11 ensur ing Boilers ami Engines of all descriptions, Making and Re pairing Mill Spindles, Wood Plainer?, Making Ploughs, Iron ing Wagons; and in Ilorse-Shoe-ing, &c.. we challenge any one feting Shoes l 2"), common dittti Si, c:ist- Ste. l toes, or Steel plate, S J. PERRY. . 1!. Mr. W. BEARD, the Gun and Lock Smith can he found at the above- establishment. Charlotte, Jan. I, 1856.tf S. J. P CARRIAGE SHOP. 2a fijifi THE SUBSCRIBER 15E(.S leave to in form his frient'.s and the public generally , that be is sti I carrying on the C arrlag Iakin IJtt.iiH'ss in all its various branches with all the increased facilities af forded by modern improvements. He has now on hand a large number of BUGGIES, CAR R I AGES, ROCKAW AYS, fee., made on the most approved styles out of the best material, to which he asks the inspection of purchasers. Mis establishments is on College and Depot streets, where he will be glad to see his menus. JOHN BARTY. 1-tf July 2S, 1 855. SADDLES & HARNESS. THE SfBSCK RKKS B31D SwETA86 enered into co. M III Ipartnershin and open.' ed a new Saddle and Harness Manufactory, AT K. SHAW'S OLD STAND, In Skim s' BaiCK ('ornf.r BuiLDine, where they have constantly on hand a large and splendid assortment of Saddles, Bridles, Ianit'ss,&c oi every tlescription, according to the most approved style and fashion of the day. They are also prepared to manufacture anything in their line in the most substantial and work manlike manner and better than the best. We respectfully invite the public to call and examine for themselves. Repairing done at short notice and with neatness and dispatch. SHAW & PALMER. March 2, 1835. 32 If S. M. HOWELL, Saddle 6l Harness Manufacturer, (Three doors south of Sadler's Hotel,) CHARLOTTE, N. C. THE subscriber thankful for the very liberal patron age bestowed upon him dur ing the past year, has now made more extersive pre H T- paration tor the future de mand for work in his line, and will endeavor to furnish U all that may want Saddles and Harness, with a superior article at the lowest possible prices. He has now on hand a very large assortment ot Saddle, BriJUs, Hmrness, Saddlery Hard ware, Whip, Buffalo Robes, Sad dle Cloths, Skirtings, Hog Skins, Patent En amelled and Harness Leather, together with every thing usually kept in my line of business. &?"Aii kinds of Saddles and Harness made at the shortest notice. CP" Repairing promptly executed. S. M. HOWELL. Oct 23, 1855. 13-tf Cash paid for Hides. 1MIE highest prices will be paid lor hides by S. M. HOWELL. 3 doors south cf Sadler's Hotel. Caarle""' Oct. 30-6m PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE UT RELATION TO KANSAS AFFAIRS. Washington, January 24, 1850. To the Senate and House of Representatives : Circumstances have occurred to disturb the course of governmental organization in the Territory of Kansas, and produce there a condition of things which renders it in cumbent on me to cull your attention to the subject, and urgently recommend the adop tion by you of such measures of legislation as the grave exigencies of the case appear to require. A brief exposition of the circumstances referred to, and of their causes, will be necessary to the full understanding of the recommendations which it is proposed to submit. The act to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas was a manifestation of the legislative opinion of Congress on two gr :it points of constitutional construc tion: One, that the designation of the boundaries of a new Territory, and pro vision for its political organization and ad ministration as a lerntory, are measures whic h of right fall within the powers of the General Government; and the other, that the inhabit antfl of any such Territory, con sidered as an inchoate State, are entitled, in the exercise of self-government, to de termine for themselves what shall be their own domestic institutions, subject only to the Constitution and the laws duly enacted by Congress under it, and to the power of the existing States to decide, according to the provisions and principles of the Consti tution, at what time the Territory shall bo received as a State into the Union. Such are the great political rights which are solemnly declared and affirmed by that act. Based upon tluV theory, the tet of Con gress defined for eac h Territory the outlines of republican government, distributing pub lic authority among lawfully-created agents executive, judicial, and legislative to be appointed either by the General Government or by the Territory. The legislative func tions were entrusted to a Council and a House of ltepresentatives, duly elected and empowered to enact all the local laws which they might deem essential to their pros perity, happiness and good government. Acting in the same spirit, Congress also defined the persons who were in the first instance to be considered as the people of each Territory ; enacting that every free white male inhabitant of the same, above the age of twenty-one years, being an ac t ual resident thereof, and possessing the qualifi cations hereafter described, should be en titled to vote at the first election, and be eligible to any office within the Territory ; but that the qualifications of votergaj.y should be such as might be prescribed by tho Legislative Assembly : Provided, how ever, that the right of suffrage and of hold ing office should be exercised only by citizens of the United States, and those who should have declared on oath tl r intention to become such, and have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of the act : And provided, further that no officer, soldier, seaman, or marine, or other person in the army or navy of the United States, or attached to troops in their service, should be allowed to vote or hold office in either Territory by reason of being on servic e therein. Such of the public officers of the Terri tories as, by the provisions of the act, were to be appointed by the General Govern ment, inc luding the Governors, were ap pointed and commissioned in due season the law having been enacted on the 30th of May, 154, and the commission of the Governor of the Territory of Nebraska being dated on the 2d clay of August, 1854, and of the Territory of Kansas on the 29th day of June, 1854. Among the duties imposed by the oct on the Governor was that of directing and superintending the political organization of the respective Territories. The Governor of Kansas was required to cause a census or enumeration id" the inhabitants and quali fied voters of the several counties and districts of the Territory to be taken bv such persons and in such mode as he might designate and appoint ; to appoint and direct the time and places ot holding the first elections, and the manner of conducting them, both as to the persons to superintend such elections and the returns thereof; to declare the number of the members of the Council and House of Representatives for each county or district; to declare what persons might appear to be duly elected ; and to appoint the time and place of the first meeting of tire Legislative Assembly. In substance, the same duties were devolved on the Governor of Nebraska. While, by this act, the principle of con stitution for each of the Territories was one and the same, and the details of organic legislation regarding both were as nearly as could be identical, and while the Terri tory of Nebraska was tranquilly and suc cessfully organized in the due course of law, and its first Legislative Assembly met on the Kith of January, 1855, the organiza tion of Kansas was long delayed, and has been attended with serious difficulties and embarrassments, partly the consequence of local mal-administration, and partly of the unjustifiable interference of the inhabitants of some of the States, foreign by residence, interests, and rights to the Territory. The Governor of the Territory of Kansas, commissioned, as before stated, on the 29th of June, 1854, did not reach the designated seat of his government until the 7th of the ensuing October; and even then failed to mak.j the first step in its legal organization that of ordering the census or enumera tion of its inhabitants until so late a day that the election of the members of the Legislative Assembly did not take place until the 30th of March, 1855, nor its meeting until the second of July, 1855 ; so that, for a year after the Territory was constituted by the act of Congress, and the officers to be appointed by the Federal Executive had been commissioned, it vas without a com plete government, without any legislative authority, without local law, and of course without the ordinary guarantees of peace and public order. In other respects the Governor, instead of exercising constant vigilance and putting forth all his energies to prevent or counter act the tendencies to illegality which are prone to exist in all imperfectly-organized and newlv-aesociated communities, allowed his attention to be diverted from official obligation by other objects, and himself set an example "of the violation of law in the performance ot acts which rendered it my duty, in the sequel, to remove him from the office of chief executive magistrate of the Terrib ry. Before the requisite preparation was ac complished for ' election of a Territorial Legislature an election of Delegate to Con gress had been held in the Territory on the 29th day of November, 1854, and the Dele gate took his seat in the Houe of Repre sentatives without challenge. If arrange ments had been perfected by the G vernor so that the election for members of Legis lative Assembly might be held In the several precincts at the same time as for Delegates to Congress, any question appertaining to the qualification of the persons voting as people of the Territory would have passed necessarily and at once under the supervi sion of Congress, as the judge of the validity of the return of the Delegate, and would have been determined before conflicting passions had become inflamed by time and before opportunity could have been afforded for systematic interference of the people of individual States. Tli is interference, in so far as concerns its primary causes and its immediate com mencement, was one of the incidents of that pernicious agitation on the subject of the c ondition of the colored persons held to service in some of the States which has so long disturbed the repose of our country, and excited individuals, otherwise patriotic mil law-aoiuing, to ion wim uusuui-ua-u zeal in the attempt to propagate their social theories by the perversion and abuse of the powers of Congress. The persons and parties whom the tenor of the act to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas thwarted in the en deavor to impose, through the agency of Congress, their particular views of social organization on the people of the future new States, now perceiving that the policy of leaving the inhabitants of each State to judge for themselves in this respect, was ineradi cably rooted in the convictions of the people of the Union, then had recourse, in the pursuit of their general object, to the ex traordinary measure of propagandist colo nization of the Territory of Kansas, to prevent the free and natural action of its inhabitants in its internal organization, and thus to anticipate or to force the determina tion of that question in this inchoate State. With such views associations were or- j ganized in some of the States, and their purposes were proclaimed through the press ' in language extremely irritating and ofieu give to those of whom the colonists were to become the neighbors. Those designs and acts had the necessary consequence to j awaken emotions of intense indignation in States near to the Territory of Kansas, and wlujsedomesue pXCinrSfS of Missouri,, directly endangered ; but they are far from j justifying the illegal and reprehensible counter-movements which ensued. Under these inauspicious circumstances the primary elections for members of the I Legislative Assembly were held in most, if j not all, of the precincts at the time and the places and by the persons designated and appointed by the Governor according to iaw. 1 Angry accusations that illegal votes had been polled abounded on all sides, and im putations were made both of fraud and violence. But the Governor, in the exer cise of the power and the discharge of the duty conferred and imposed by law on him alone, officially received and considered the returns, declaring a large majority of the members of the Council and the House of Representatives "duly elected;" withheld certificates from others because of alleged illegality of votes; appointed a new election to supply the place of the persons not certi fied; and thus at length, in all the forms of statute, and with his own official authenti cation, complete legality was given to the first Legislative Assembly of the Territory. Those decisions of the returning officers and of the Governor are final, except that, by the parliamentary usage of the country applied to the organic law, it may be con ceded that each House of the Assembly must have been competent to determine, in the last resort, the qualifications and the elec tion of its members. The subject was, by its nature, one appertaining exclusively to the jurisdiction of the local authorities of the Territory. Whatever irregularities may have occurred in the elections, it seems too late now to raise that question. At all events it is a question as to which, neither now nor at any previous time, has tho least possible legal authority been possessed by the President of the United States. For all present purposes the legislative body, thus constituted and elected, was the legitimate assembly of the Territory. Accordingly, the Governor, by proclama tion, convened the Assembly thus elected to meet at a place called Pawnee City. The two Houses met, and were duly organi zed in the ordinary parliamentary form ; each sent to and received from the Governor the official communications usual on such occasions; an elaborate message opening the session was communicated by the Governor; and the general business of legislation was entered upon by the Legislative As sembly. Hut, after a few days, the Assembly re solved to adjourn to another place in the Territory. A law was accordingly passed, against the consent of the Governor, but in due form otherwise, to remove the seat of Government temporarily to the "Shawnee manual-labor school," (or mission,) and thither the Assembly proceeded. After this, receiving a bill tor the establishment of a ferry at the town of Kickapoo, the Gov ernor refused to sign it, and, by special message, assigned for reason of refusal, not any thing objectionable in the bill itself, nor any pretence of the illegality or incompe tency of the Assembly as such, but only the fact that the Assembly had by its act trans ferred the seat of government temporarily from Pawnee City to Shawnee Mission. For the same reason he continued to refuse to sign other bills, until, in the course of a few days, he, by official message, commu nicated to the Assembly the fact that he had received notification of the termination of his functions as Governor, and that the duties of the office were legally devolved on the Secretary of the Territory ; thus to the last recognizing the body as a duly-elected and constituted Legislative Assembly. It will be perceived that if any constitu tional defect attached to the legislative acts of the assembly, it is not pretended to con sist in irregularity of election or want of qualification of the members, but only in the change of its place of session. However trivial the objection may seem to be, it re quires to be considered, because upon it is founded all that superstructure of acts, plainly against law, which now threatens the peace, not only of the Territory of Kansas, but of the Union. Such an objection to the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly was of exception able origin, for the reason that, by the ex press terms of the organic law, the seat of government of the Territory was "located temporarily at Fort Leavenworth ; and yet the Governor himself remained there less than two months, and of his own discretion transferredthe seat of government to the Shawnee Mission, where it in fact was at the time the Assembly were called to meet at Pawnee City. If the Governor had any such right to change temporaily the seat of government, still more had the Legislative Assembly. The objection is of exceptiona ble origin for the further reason that the place indicated by the Governor, without having any exclusive claim of preference in itself, was a proposed town site only, which he and others were attempting to locate un lawfully upon land within a military reser vation, and for participation in which illegal act the commandant of the post, a superior officer of the army, has been dismissed by sentence of court-martial. Nor is it easy to say why the Legislative Assembly might not with propriety pass the Territorial act transferring its sittings to the Shawnee Mission. If it could not, that must be on account of some prohibitory or in compatible provision or act of Congress. But no such provision exists. The organic act, as already quoted, says "the seat of government is hereby located temporarily at Fort Leavenworth;" and it then provides that certain of the public buildings there "may be occupied and used under the direc tion of the Governor and Legislative Assem bly." These expressions might possibly be construed to imply that when in a pre vious section of the act it was enacted that "the first Legislative Assembly shall meet at such place and on such day as the Gov ernor shall appoint," the word " place " means place at Fort Leavenworth, not place any where in the Territory. Tf so, the Gov ernor would have been the first to err in this matter, not only in himself having removed the seat of government to the Shawnee Mis sion, but in again removing it to Pawnee City. If there was any departure from the letter of the law, therefore, it was his in both instances. But, however this may be, it is most un reasonable to suppose that by the terms of the organic act Congress intended to do impliedly what it has not done expressly that is, to forbid to the Legislative Assem bly the power to choose any place it might tions. That is proved by the si&nihcant language of one of the subsequent acts of Congress on the subject, that of March 3, 1855, which in making appropriation for public buildings ot the 1 erritory, enacts that the same shall not be expended "until the Legislature ot said I erritory shall have fix ed by the law the permanent seat of gov ¬ ernment." Congress in these expressions, does not profess to be granting the pow er to fix the permanent seat of govern ment, but recognises the power as one al ready granted. But how ? Undoubtedly by the comprehensive provision of the or ganic act itself, which declares that " the legislative power of the Territory shall ex tend to all rightful subjects of legislation consistent with the Constitution of the Unit ed States and the provisions of this act." If, in view of this act, the Legislative As sembly had the large power to fix tho per manent seat of govegnment at any place in its discretion, of course by the same enact ment it had the less and the included power to fix it temporarily. Nevertheless, the allegation that the acts of the Legislative Assembly were illegal by reason of this removal of its place of session was brought forward to justify the first great movement in disregard of law within the Territory. One of the acts of the Leg islative Assembly provided for the election of a Delegate to the present Congress, and a Delegate was elected under that law. But, subsequently to this, a portion of the people of the Territory proceeded without authority of law to elect another Delegate. Following upon this movement was an other and more important one of the same general character. Persons confessedly not constituting the body politic, or all the in habitants, but merely a party of the inhab itants, and without law, have undertaken to summon a convention for the purpose of transforming the Territory into a State, and have framed a constitution, adopted it, and under it elected a Governor and other offi cers aud a Representative to Congress. In extenuation of these illegal acts, it is alleged that the States of California, Michi gan, and others were self organized, and, as such, were admitted into the Union without a previous enabling act of Congress. It is true that, while in a majority of cases a previous act of Congress has been passed to authorize the Territory to present itself as a State, and that this is deemed' the most regular course, yet such an act has not been held to be indispensable, and, in some cases, the Territory has proceded without it, and has nevertheless been admitted into the Union as a State. It lies with Congress to authorize before hand or to confirm after wards, in its discretion ; but iu no instance has a State been admitted upon the applica tion of persons acting against authorities duly constituted by act of Congress. In every case it is the people of the Territory, not a party among them, who have the power to form a constitution and ak for admission as a State. No principle of public law, no practice or precedent under the Constitu tion of the United States, no rule of reason, right, or common sense confers any such power as that now claimed by a mere party in trjp Territory. In fact, what has been done is of a revolutionary character. It is avowedly so in motive and in aim as respects fbe local law of the Territory. It will be come treasonable insurrection if it reacli the length of organized resistance by force to the fundamental or any other federal law and to the authority of the General Gov ernment. In such an event the path of duty for the Executive is plain. The Constitution re quiring hpTi to take care that the laws of the United States be faithfully executed, if they be opposed in the Territory of Kansas he may and should place at the disposal of the marshal any public force of the U. States which happens to be within tho jurisdiction, to be used as a portion of the posse comita tus ; and, if that do not suffice to maintain order, then he may call forth the militia of one or more States for that object, or em ploy for the same object any part of the land or naval force of the United States. So also if the obstruction be to the laws of tho Ter ritory and it be duly presented to him as a case of insurrectioa, ho may employ for its suppression the militia of any State or the land or naval force of the United States. And if the Territory be invaded by the citi zens of other States, whether for the purpose of deciding elections or for any other, and the local authorities find themselves unable to repel or withstand it, they will be entitled to, and upon the fact being fully ascertain ed they shall most certainly receive, the aid of the General Government. But it is not the duty of tho President of the United States to volunteer interposition by force to preserve the purity of elections either in a State or Territory. To do so would be subversive of public freedom. And whether a law be wise or unwise, just or un just, is not a question for him to judge. If it be constitutional that is, if it be the law of the land it is his duty to cause it to be executed, or to sustain the authorities of any State or Territory in executing it in oppo sition to all insurrectionary movements. Our system affords no justification ot re volutionary act; for the constitutional means of relieving the people of unjust administra tion and laws, by a change of public agents and by repeal, are ample, and more prompt and effective than illegal violence. These constitutional means must be scrupulously guarded this great prerogative of popular sovereignty sacredly represented. It is the undoubted riifht of the peacea ble and orderly people of the Territory of Kansas to elect their own legislative body, make their own laws, and regulate their own social institutions, without foreign or domes tic molestation. Interference, on the one hand, to procure the abolition or prohibi tion of slave labor in the Territory has pro duced mischievous interference, on the oth er, for its maintenance or introduction. One wrong begets another. Statements en tirely unfounded, or grossly exaggerated, concerning events within the Territory, are sedulously diffused through remote States to feed the flame of sectional animosity there ; and the agitators there exert them selves' indefatigably in return to encourage and stimulate strife witnm tne 1 erritory. The inflammatory agitation, of which the present is but a part, has for twenty years produced nothing save unmitigated evil, North and South. But for it the character of the domestic institutions of the future new State would have been a matter of too lit tle interest to the inhabitants of the conti guous States, personally or collectively, to p wjoui i.rj wnticai . Climate, soil, production, hops of rapid ad vancement, and the pursuit of happiness on the part of the settlers themselves, with good wishes but with no interference from without, would have quietly determined tho question which is at this time of such dis turbing character. But we are constrained to turn our atten tion to the circumstances of embarrassment as they now exist. It is the duty of the people of Kansas to discountenance every act or purpose of resistance to its laws. Above all, the emergency appeals to the citizens of the States, and especially of those contiguous to the Territory, neither by in tervention of non-residents in elections, nor by unauthorized military force, to attempt to encroach upon or usurp the authority of the inhabitants of the Territory. No citizen of our country should permit himself to forget that he is a part of its Gov ernment, and entitled to be heard in the de termination of its policy and its measures ; and that, therefore, highest considerations of personal honor and patriotism require him to maintain, by whatever of power or influence he may possess, the integrity of the laws of the Republic. Entertaining these views, it will bo my im perative duty to exert the whole power of the Federal Executive to support public or der in the Territory ; to vindicate its laws, whether federal or local, against all attempts of organized resistance ; and so to protect its people in the establishment of their own institutions, undisturbed by encroachment from without, and in the full enjoyment of the rights of self government assured to them by the Constitution and the organic act of Congress. Although serious and threatening distur bances in the Territory of Kansas, announ ced to me by the Governor in December last, were speedily quieted without the effu sion of blood, and in a satisfactory manner, there is, I regret to say, reason to apprehend that disorders will continue to occur there, with increasing tendency, to violence, until some decisive measure be taken to dispose of the question itself which constitutes the inducement or occasion of internal agitation and of external interference. This, it seems to me, can best be accom plished by providing that, when the inhabi tants of Kansas may desire it, and shall be of sufficient numbers to constitute a State, a convention of delegates, duly elected by the qualified voters, shall assemble to frame a constitution, and thus to prepare, through regular and lawful means, for its admission into the Union as a State. I respectfully recommend the enactment of a law to that effect. I recommend, also, that a special appro priation be made to defray any expense which may become requisite in the execu tion of the laws or the maintenance of pub lic order in the Territory of Kansas. FRANKLIN PIERCE. Tragedy in the Court Room. In Washington, Mo., on Saturday week a gun smith named Harrison was on trial for sev eral burglaries, which, it was charged, he had committed. During the trial it was dis closed that he had violated the person of his step daughter, a girl of 17, and by threats against her life had induced her to keep the secret. The girl's brother, who was pres ent, left the Court-room, procured a pistol, loaded it, returned to the Court -room, plac ed the pistol to Harrison's head, discharged the pistol, and left him a lifeless corpse in the presence of the magistrates. The young man was tried immediately, and discharged from custody. enrol intelligence. MEN FOR KANSAS. We have learned with great satisfaction that a corps of three hundred men has been organized in Abbeville District, for the pur pose of proceeding to Kansas, under the di rection of Mr. B. Posey, late of the Inde pendent Press. This is a most excellent movement, and one that will commend self to general approval. We trust, rporo ovor, that it will bo followed up 1 othor parts of the State. In the great cause of the South and of the Constitution, South Carolina has hitherto performed a promi nent part. In the Councils of the Confed eracy, she has long pleaded for this cause with eloquence, zeal and signal ability ; and now when it is at issue on tho plains of Kansas, we would have our Stato prepared, even there, to assist in its maintenance. Long have the people of tho South been "talking to the winds," and passing idle re solutions, and this has been done to no pur poj? has given to us neither idemnity for the past nor security for the future. For conscience sake, let "action" be our motto hereafter. Our constitutional and equal rights in the Union are imperilled in Kansas; as we have remarked before, "a practical issue" stares us broadly in the face, and we entreat our fellow-citizens of the South to meet it as bo coines freemen aud men. Columbia Carolinian. VIRGINIA AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. A select committee of the Virginia House of Delegates has reported a bill "to protect James Parsons, jr., of Hampshire, and other citizens of the Commonwealth, in the pro secution and maintenance of their constitu tional rights." The said Parsons is now under recognizance to appear before tho county court of Blair county, Pa., to an swer to the charge of kidnapping, under tho laws of said State, ho having pursued to Said county and endeavored to reclaim a fugitive slave, in pursuance of the provis ions of the act of Congress known as tho "fugitive slave law." The bill prohibits the said Parsons, u ndor a penalty of $G,000, from appearing and pleading to the charge aforesaid, and pro vides that tho commonwealth of Virginia omul assume on 111s oenait an costs, fines, forfeitures, &c, incurred by his non-appearance tho amount to be paid by the Governor out of the contingent fund. The bill further provides that if tho said Par sons shall hereafter be arrested and impris oned upon the charge aforesaid, the Gov ernor of Virginia is directed to demand his immediate surrender, and in default thereof shall cause the writ of habeas corpus to bo applied for, dec. If his release be not then effected, the Governor is directed, ten days after the proclamation, to seize and impris on all citizeus, and to seize and hold all property of the State of Pennsylvania and of citizens thereof, until the release and sur render of said Parsons. For the enforce ment of the proceedings contemplated by this proposed law, the Governor is author ized to call upon and command the services of all civil and military officers of the State, and all private citizens whatsoever, &c. It is further provided that tho provisions of this bill shall be extended to any other ci tizen of Virginia who may hereafter bo placed in the situation of said Parsons, &C. fj Religious Bigotry. OToanoH de scribes religious bigotry in the following nervous language; "She has no head, and cannot think ; no heart, and cannot feel ! When she moves, it is in wrath; when she pauses, it is iu ruin ; her prayers are curses; her God is a demon ; her communion is death; her vengeance is eternity ; her decalogue is written in the blood of her victims ; and if she stops for a moment in her infernal flight, it is upon a kindled rock, to whet her vulture fang for a more sanguinary desolation." Gross Superstition. At the execution of Hubbard a few days ago, in Wabash county, in this State, for the murder of tho French family, after he was entirely dead, the enclosuro was taken down and more than five hundred persons went in and touched him, giving their reasons for so doing that it would in the future protect them from witchcraft. The ropo that be was hung with the crowd afterwards took, cut it up in small pieces, and divided it out among them, to act as a charm in protect ing them in the future from ague and all other diseases. Surely this is the quintes sence of superstition. Terre Haute ( Ind.) Expre&i. War's Doings. According to the Alba ny Evening Journal, the entire number of men killed by the wars of 1855 is over .'J00, 000. Seventy-three battles have been fought, and no such bloody record has been presented in any year since the days of the field of Waterloo. VST The number of Revolutionary Sol diers grows less aud less. It is now reduced to 726. The number of revo lutionary widows receiving pensions is CF"No man can avoid his own company, j so he had hotter make it as good as possible.