New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-01
WE WILL aIHDIR YOE.

Our readers will find in another column q re-
markable illustration Of the extent to which the
Shareholders are proceeding to carry out the sub
DUNG process lately cnunciated by Mr.. Douglas
in the Senate, process which indeed may be
ssid TO be of the very essence Of slsvedriving.
We refer TO the full details which we give to-day
Of the invasion Of the State Of Ohio by an organ
lied band Of Virginians for the purpose Of sup
pressing by force, violence and bloodsbed the dis
cussien Of the Slavery question. This affair
shows the extent Of slayeholding pretensiOns,
and what we Of the North must be prepared
to submit to, if, with the help of Northern trait
ors and doughfaces, the pending contest should
90 against us. 1t also teaches another very i'm
pOrtant lesson il shows how small an infusion Of
Slavery is sufficient totally to demoralize an entire
community and how essential it is, where civiliza-
tion is hoped for and deeency expected entirely to
exclude the slightest tincture oft.
Western Virginia, as is well known has COM
paratively but few slaves Cabell County, in
which lies the town Of GuyaDdotte, the place made
infamous by the participation OF some Of It's In
habitonts in the transactions to which we refer, out
of entire population, by the census of 1850, Of
$3.50 persona had only $50 slaves; aud yet this
small infusion of the patrarcba institution is sufi-
cent, it would seem, to reduce the entire COM
munity to the lowest grade Of stupid and ignorant
barbarism. Guyandotte itself is q considerable
village Of near a thousand nhabitants-a well
known landing on the Ohio River, aud aspiring to
become the Western terminus of that famous rail-
road across the State about which Gov. Wise
makes such pother, and to help raise the means
to build which be proposes to levy tax on all Oys-
teri and canvasback ducks taken within the waters
of Virginia.
Our correspondents write that the men engaged
in this affair should not be cassed as Border Ruff
fans, "for they among the best men Of West
"ern Virginia" We hope there may be some
mistake about that, otherwise the best men of
"Western Virginia" are, with our correspondents
leave, "BOrder Ruffians" and nothing else.
Whatever else they may be, the men who cross the
border Of their State to perpetrate illegal vio-
lence in another are beyond all question Border
RufiaDs"
With respect to our correspondents question
about the dissolution Of the Union, We can't see
how that dissolution would help our friends at
Quaker Bottom in the least. Union or no Union,
they would still have these Border Ruffians in their
neighborhood, and it would be equally necessary to
guard against them. As the names of these best
"men of Western Virginia" are known, We sup
pose, of course, that indictments will be found
against them by the Grand Jury of Lawrence
County, and that Gov. Chase will demand of Gov.
Wise the surrender of these cowardly miscreants,
to be dealt with by an Ohio court. Much, to be
sure, is not to be expected from such demand;
but if it is refused or evaded then the people of the
border counties of Ohio will know exactly where
they stand, and what they have to expect. A suit
able provision Of Sharps rifles will, we doubt not,
in that case, prove quite as effectual against the
Border Rufians of Virginia as they have against
those of Missouri.