ruffianism

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Emigration flowed in rapidly, both from the South and the North, and the terrible days of Border Ruffianism followed.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

Ruffianism may speak the language of learning or religion; it is ruffianism still.

From The Shepherd of the Hills by Wright, Harold Bell

Ruffianism was crushed, the Jesuits were banished, the nobility were taught to respect the civil law, the peasantry were encouraged.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

The Preparatory Schools of Ruffianism are similarly borne with. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

I always had a great liking for him, and deem him entitled to great public gratitude for his services in the rescue of Kansas from what was known as Border Ruffianism.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie