Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-17
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THURSDAY. APRIL u 1856.


Border A0iitan Dem 0crncy.
The Richmond Enquirer, the leading organ of
the Pierce administration at the South, defines
the political sympathies of the dynasty in power
at Washington, by declaring "the BORDER ruffian
the noblest type of mankind" The rest of the
Eneuirer's article betrays in an equal degree its
philosophical discrimination in regard to the diff
frent races of humanity as we'll as its democratic
instincts For instance, it informs us that with
out slaves in Kansas, 'swhite men must clean
the streets. make the roads, stand behind the
chairs Of gentlemen at the table, brush their
clothes, black their boots, and hold their horses
This would, indeed be a horrible condition OF
society, in the view Of this democratic organ
list, when pure blooded, white, Anglo'Saxon
Americans might have to be employed, in the
degrading physical service Of repairing our high
ways, cultiyating our farms, OF attending to any
other labor which ''the chiyalry'' thinks 1t the
highest point of honor to extort with the lash
from their "human chattes.
The philosophy en- which the Enquirer bases
its magnificent idea. of stamping "border ruff
fan" an invader of his neighhors' rights, an in
cendiary breather of horrid oaths and brandisher
of bowie knives at his neghbors' throats, as 'the
noblest type of mankind, is continued in the
following little bit from its columns:
Slave society is the oldest, the most common,
and the most natural form Of society while free
society is little experiment, small in extentand
short in duration.
If slave society Is the most true and natural
form of rela ton between man and man, between
the employer and the employed, as here intimat-
ed, then certainly it follows that it should be ex
tended at all hazards, into all the territories
and States Ii decent means will not efectuate
it, why, then, border rufhan tactics must be re-
sorted to, and that fellow among the vile herd led
on by the Atchisons and Stringfellows, who ex-
cells his compeers in house burning, pfess-de-
stroying, rapne, murder, and in driving peace
able inhabitants of Kansas from the exercise of
their sovereign rights at the polls, is the traest
type, in the estimation of this full blooded ad-
ministration organ, of what man should be, es-
pecially if he is supporter of the claims of
Franklin Pierce to reelection. A pretty nice
specimen of that noblest type of the race,
the g border rufian, is Gen. Stringfellow him.
self, who addressed the invaders of Kansas, in
Missouri, on the eve of the election of March 30,
1856, for the choice of members of the Kansas
Legislature, as follows
To those who have qualms Of conscience
as to violating laws, State or National, the
time has come when such impositions must be
dsregarded, as your rights and property are
in danger and L advise you, one and ali, to
enter every election district in Kansas, In de-
fance of Reeder and his vile lnyrmidons, and
vote at the point of the bowie knife and the
revolver. Neither give nor take quarter, as
our case demands it. 1t is enough that the
slaveholding interest wills it, from which
there is no appeal. What right has Gov.
Reeder to rule Missourians in Kansas His
proclamation and prescribed oath must be re-
pudiated. 1t is your interest to do so Mind
that Slavery is established where it is not pro-
hibited.
Here is beautiful gsm of democratic doctrine,
emanating from the very head of the rufian horde,
who have so gloriously earned the proud title Of
being the "noblest types Of mankind"
In perfect consonance with this idea, President
Pierce sat quiet in his seat all the while that the
successive incursions of Missouri invaders into
Kansas came off, and took no measures to pro-
the neople there in the exercise of their rights
me -Veuras ka- hafisas act. sTTlaT marrered +
with him, that the rightiul voters were driver
from the polls, and Missouri rufians supplied
their places and installed pro,slavery, Missouri
Legislature in power over Kansas 1t concerned
him to this extent, that in compliance with thu
wishes of those !" noblest types of mankind, thu
border rufhans," he summarily removed Reedel
rom the Governorship, and has since issued hi
proclamation, commanding implicit obedience t.
the infamous enactments Of the border ruffia1