New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-12
A BORDER RUFFIAN JUDGE.

The Tallahassee FOrdian gives az extract from
a letter, which it ascrbes to the Hon. Stirling G..
Cato, one of the United States Judges in Kansas,
appointed We suppose in place Ofthe Judge removed
from Office under the pretense of land specuaions,
but probably also because be was not sufficiently
Border Ruffian to command the entire confidence
Of the Administration. That this Stirling G.. Cato
is fully up to the hub in that respect nobody, we
think, will doubt after reading this letter, writ
ten, it is TO be recollected very shortly after his
arrival in the Territory and before he could have
had any personal knowledge of the settlers whom
he undertakes to calumniate A pretty fellow he
for Judge Who can wonder that the people of
Kansas seek by organizing State Government to
deliver themselves from the jaw of such officials
"DoNALDsos, X. T., Feb. 90, 1856.
"W. G.. NJ. DAVIS, ESQ.-Dedr Sir: Your letter of
the eth Of January owing to the egularty ofthe mails
om the snow for the last six or eight weeks, did not
reacL me till Yesterday. shall have to defer answer
ing some of yort inquiries till some future time can
not refrain however at the present time from answer
ing such of your letter relates to the character ana
conduct of the Border Rufans a. the Missourians or
Pro-S,ayery party here called My observation
and experience since have been here confirm all the
reldJ information which have received from Others
and state with perfect truth that no class OF peo-
pie can be found anywhere, IN any state, Norm or
Souih that are more peaceable orderly and law-abd
ING than these same Border Rufians, any statement
that may be found in The 81. Louis Dem0crdt or in
the correspondence Of Northern Free-SO aud Adolf
ton papers TO the contrary, Notwithstanding.
You can readily imagine the class OF population
that would avail themselves of Abolition aid to
get out here: and if you here on the spot mere
percal glance would satisfy you of the real quarter
in which ruiianism ana awessness and violence are to
be found The first blood that shed IN the Tern
oh hv whom there
is true bill for murder and who now fugitive nom
Justice, and le,turing in the Northern States upon
Kansas affairs, to Abolition crowds, and melting them
TO aid in the purchase of weapons aud IN furnishing
me- ans to resist the laws of the Territory There have
been several other homicides committed in the Terri
tory concerning which my position renders II improper
for me to speak but would suggest that nobody here
ever riyes the least credit to any account OF them
which appears in Free-Sol or Abolition sheet, either
in the Territory or out of it, THE 81. LOUIS Democrat
included.
Mendacity has been reduced by them to OCULAR sys
TEN. Their Leaders here recently and when they have
had no earthly cause to apprehend any attack from
aby quarter, and when al other people have been
quiet have had their guards and sentines round Law
reEce, regularly in time OF war; have gathered
and collected provisions, munitions etc., and have
actually presented themselves to their Northern breth
rem u in state of siege, for the purpose, doubtless,
of Fastening emigration and of backenlng and OF de-
s.royng the character of the Border Rudians. This
tenn, Border Ruffan,' is not considered here as
term OF reprOech, but on the contrary Is 'dued US
compliment for il marks a wide interval between the
Aboitionsts of Massachusetts AID Society notorety
and that straghtorwardness and truth and honesty OF
burmese which are Justly the boast of Border Ruff
ans If ever any people could find pelliaton for yo-
ations Of law, it would be these same Border kut-
iians.
"TLeir institutions have been attacked by hired ln-
struments sent here by Northern fanatics and every
thing that Is and dear to the South and Missouri
has been clearly disregardedi and no people can be
expected to endure patiently and see deienseless
women and children fly from their burning dwellings
at midnight, to seek shelter where they best could
find it, especially when this is the work OF hired tools
sent out here for the purpose and who are all PROVIDED
with Sharps rifles and are fed and live here by the
same means which sent them here These are some
Of the causes which led to the late Kansas war -
no l. Border Ruffan attempted to take the law INTO
bis own hands but these outrages were sought to De
punished through the ordinary legal tribunals OF the
country but these tribunals were repudiated b. the
Aboitionists and all law and authority openly set at
defiance. | would suggest that your people take
few cope. of The Missouri RePabl.can, a sound ana
every way reliable paper, published at st. LOUIS
very respectfully your obedien servant, ; O. c.