New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-27
BORDER RUFFIAN POLITICS.

The Commercial AdceTtiSer gives in its formal
adhesion 10 the Border Ruflian candidate for the
Presidency just nominated OF Philadelphia. We
say Border Rufiian candidate, for such Mr.. Fill
more is, and that by double title. In the first
place, his friends who have brought about his NOM
ination have played precisely the same game with
the kn0wNothing party that the Missouri Border
Ruffians played with the actual settlers of Kansas.
In the second place, Mr.. Fillmore owes his nomina-
lion to that section of the Convention which is in
favor of the Border Rufiian movement in Kansas,
and therefore, according TO the reasoning of The
Commercial 1dreJtiSer in the very article to which
we refer he will be bound in honor to give that
policy his support. In reference to the allegation
that Mr. Fillmore is not member OF the Know
Nothing Order. The Commercial Adrertiser says
"fhe is not a member, he will be no less bound,
an honorable man, to be governed by the policy which
that party has avowed should biz election be accom-
plished. He must take the platform as well as the
Nomination. And in giving him our support, We shall
neither lose sight of evade the responsibility therein
involved"
This principle We take it The Commercial Adcer-
tiser is prepared to carry out. Now, the platform
upon which Mr.. Fillmore was nominated is the
platform containing the celebrated Twelfth Section.
Not only was the new platform adopted by the Ma
tional Council day or two before the nomination
repudiated by Mr.. Fillmore's friends in the nom-
mating convention. They insisted (and with some
show of reason too that as the nominating conyeu-
ton had been chosen under the Twelfth Section
platform, it was upon that platform that the nom-
nation must be made
The question however, as TO what platform Mr..
Fillmore stands upon, or whether, as The CON-
mercial AdrGtiser alleges "he possesses in an ex-
traordnary degree the qualifications for the
Presidential Office" cannot, as matters stand be
Of the least consequence to The Commercial Adrsr-
tiser, or anybody else, in settling the question
whether or not 10 support Mr.. Fillmore as Presi-
dental candidate. In the last National Wing
caucus opinions somewhat different from those Of
The Commercial AdreriSer seem to have been en-
tertained as to Mr.. Fillmores special qualifications
for the Presidential Office. AT least if We recoect
Alright, be was not re-nOminsted BY that body,
though very zealously urged upon it from the very
fame quarter which has given him his present
Nomination. But however that may have been-Of
what earthly consequence are a mans qualfca-
tions for an Office which there ia not the slightest
possibility of his ever filling Mr.. Fillmore,
notwithstanding his nomination, and with
all the votes be may be able to pick up,
Know-NOthing or Silver Grey, is no more likely to
be chosen President of the United States than he
is to be chosen Pope Of Rome. 1t is paying no
particular compliment to the sagacity of The Com
mereiGl Adrertistr to suppose that it this fact
as clearly as we do. But, though the votes given
to Mr. Fillmore cannot elect him, they may help
to elect Mr.. Pierce or Mr.. Wise, or who ever else
may be the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention;
and it was for that purpose and no other that the
Southern men at Philadelphia nominated Mr. Fill
more. They have no hopes of carrying the South
for him. They generally cannot have the shadow
of hope Of carrying the North; bu. they do hope.
and not without reason, tba. tbs votes drsws OIL