New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-11
TEX wI.cos-Iv GovEByoRsH,P.

The dangerous and alarming doctrine la.ely set
ND by the Border. RufIian party in COngress-tLat
q certificate Of election, no matter how Obtained,
constitutes title to Office that cannot be looked
iuto-a doctrine 20 convenient for rogues, rstcals
and de.paradoes genernlly-bas already found good
acceptance, and is, it seems TO be pat in practice
in one Of The States Of this Union. II is well
known that the person, BarstOw By name, who Is
at present acting % Governor Of Wisconsin Is
alleged to have obtained the certificate Of election
only through the grossest frauds in canvassng the
election returns.
10 Obtain az examination into these frauds Mr..
BashlOrd, the opposing candidate, caused process
Of quo uarr0nto 70 l. issued out OF the Supreme
Court Of Wisconsin, requiring this BarstOw TO
chow by what title be- holds the Office Of Governor.
1t was thought for & time that this proceeding
would be purposey -ipwrecked, or would be so
DELAYED rs to be Of no avail by the Attorney- Gen
era WhO in bis official capacity has the control OF
the suit, and who is political if not personal
friend Of Barstow But that difficulty has been
overcome. and the Court, it scens, has heard the
case. and is preparing TO give Judgment.
Finding that technical qubblesdid not avail him,
and anticipating, doubtless for the best Of reasons,
that the Judgment will be against him, this fellow
Barstow has adopted the grab-game system of the
Pordtr Rufans in Kansas and Washington, and,
as we learn by telegraph, has sent Message to the
Legislature, transmitting copy Of a notice On the
nature Of threatening letter., which this sutton in
tltir Court. anticipating the detection of his ras
10 fba Tti0
in substance requesting them to mind their bust
ness and not arrogate to themselves the
prcrOgatyes Of the Legislature, which this Bar
stow BY way, We suppose OF getting this body 10
cspouse his quarrel, sets up as the only tribunal
entitled to decide his right to the office. The
Governor, in imitation and in the style OF Presl-
dent Perces proclamation, also gives notice in this
Message that he shall deem it his duty to repel,
with al the power ofthc Executive Department,
any attempt to Gust him from his office, aud 1t Is
stated that the Democratic, l. e. Border Rufiian,
Members OF the Legislature have resolved in
caucus to uphold BarstOw in this violent resistance
to the authority of the Supreme Court.
This is a very natural consequence of the Border
Rufiian politics in vogue at Washington. 1t gives
iIt Country tdet' VI IN W pO lNN'S"
from the Interpolation of this new doctrine into
the Democratic creed-the doctrine namely: that
certificates of election-nO matter how obtained
give good title to Office which no subsequent in
vesteaton can set aside-a doctrine which natu-
rally enough leads it's advocates to sustain by force
what they have obtained by fraud Pretty well,
that, for party protesting such eminent devotion
to claw and order" 1t only needs now that when
BaIstow is committed to jail for contempt in re
ssting and disobeyng the order of the Supreme
Court, the Border Ruilians Of Missouri should
march into the State, release him, and execute
Lynch Law upon the Judges.
This resistance to the DEGREES of the State
Supreme Court is also in strict conformity to the
now policy of tIamplng all the State tribunals
under foot, at the same time that implicit submis
sion to the Federal Judiciary is placed at the head
of the creed, and magni6ed into doctrine abso-
lutcly essential to political salvation.