The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-06-06
The Border Rufian Convention.

There appears to be much uncertainty and
excitement at Cincinnati as to the man who
shall be selected as the border ruf;in candi-
date for the Presidency. The party there
assembled was never more united rs TO what
their platform shall BE-. They are all agreed
that the border ruilian policy Of the Pierce
administration shall be sustained and con-
tinued in Kansas, and that the ruiian DIES.
potism of the slave power shall control the
government of the Republic. Every man
among them who has been talked OF as can
ddate for the Presidency has very eagerly
and earnestly endorsed this policy and de-
clared that il must BE- foremost in both the
platform and the candidate. Opposition to
this policy is to be 'subducd," not only in
Kansas hut everywhere in the free States
Who will venture to say what these men will
not undertake to do, il they carry the next
Presidential election? The Who'll, Southern
press, with one or two exceptions in Ken
lucky and Maryland, glorify the rulfin
Brooks for his murderous assault on Senator
Sumner, and most of their Northern organs
excuse or Justify him. The spirit and pur-
pose that pcrvadc this infamous party are
openly expressed, not only by the Southern
press, but in such expressions mt the North
as the following, from the Day Book, Picrce's
special organ in New York city:
"The time is close Mt hand when such
statesmen Us Sumner and Hale will have
justice, full justice done them: rhsn in
short, an AbolihoRia ,riH Dc iyaehsd as read
iiy IN Ncr York and Boston as in Charles
ton or Nar Orleans"
That is to say, the reign of terror and
murder, over freedom, is to bccxtcndcd from
Kansas into all the free States. No man Is
or can be talked OF in the Cincinnati Con-
vcntion rs candidate for the Presidency,
who does not sympathiss with this malig-
nant dcSpOtism of the slave power, and con-
stnt to be its instrument. The question
there is merely one concerning men, not
measures. No matter whether the candi-
date selected be Douglas, Pierce, Buchanan,
or some other man, the platform and policy
will be the same. What the slave power
has done by means of the Pierce administra-
ton, IL viii continue to do, and with still
more INSCRIPTIONS malignity, by means of
its successor, if the candidate il dictates to
the Convent on at Cincinnati Is elected
We know what Pierce and Douglas are and
we know what Buchanan is. Buchanan
has always been fayorite of the Southern
seccssionists, who are now represented in
he Cabinet by JerirsOn Davis. lie has been
out out of the country lately. but he hast
ened 10 endorse the border rulsiln policy as
soon "a he reached home; and we find 1
his views expressed in his special organ, the
Philadelphia Pcnnsylvanian, which not only
sust.ins the despoiism Of slavery and its
rulR,niSm in Kansas and elsewhere, bat also
openly favors restoration OF the African
slave trade. .....I
Everybody understands that no one can
be nominated at Cincinnati without consent
,f ,.the South" The Slave Power governs
Tho country by means Of the party
how assembled there; and it governs
hat party by means OF the "two third.