Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-10-20
POLIT &c A l.,
From the Ns,c Orleans Bulietie Of Oct. 2
Tie Issues now on Trial.

develops some new phase OF the PoHCy
which will govern the Administration IN
case such disaster as the election OF Gen.
Pierce should befall the country, Senator
Douglas has been making speeches IN 'ne
Northern and Middle States, and is now IN
the West haranguing the people, and adj
~ncot;ng doctrines, which, once counte-
nonced and supported by the Government,
would not only involve us IN long, bloody,
and ruinous wars, with the most powerful
nations of the earth, in which, Tor the time
being. our commercial interests would be
naralyzed, our agriculture languish, our
Great staple become worthless, outside OF
The value which home demand and home
consumption would give it and, in either
event, stamp us as the violators Of national
faith and the solemn obligations OF treaties
AS nation in whose Punic pledges no
reliance could be placed.
Senator Douglas would seize upon CUBA
with or without pretext, excuse or JuSun,
cation, and make the Caribbean "a closed
sea-, In case the election of Gen. Pierce
he will, very likely, hold seat IN the Cab
met and be the controlling genius OF the
Administration, so far as its foreign policy
is concerned. Any attempt to carry out
such views would as assuredly result in a
war with France and England as the earth
will continue to revolve in It's accustomed
orbit. Those two great commercial Pow
ers would not allow the Caribbean sea to
be "closed :" their commercial interests are
so great that they would unhesitatlnsiy 60
TO war before they would think OF submit
ting TO the sacrifice; their national pride
wonld not admit of submission, even were
there nothing else involved and, beyond
this. it is a we'll determined fact that who
ever seizes Cuba seizes the membranes
also. Those membranes sum up the a
mount due by Spain to France and Eng
land. which swell to hundreds of millions for
the payment of which that lovely Island is
substantially mortgaged. Here are vast IN
terests, feelings of national pride, which
must sway the actions of the different Gov
ernments aggrieved, and other powerful
motives, which would inevitably impel to
desolating wars, should the policy OF Mr.,
DOUGLASS, of the Democratic Rertec, and OF
many of the prominent supporters OF Pierce
prevail in our general councils.
What do the merchants of New Orleans,
the planters of the South, think of such
state of things as war would inevitably bring
about, Commerce would be destroyed, at
least for twelvcmonth; for those nations
can nut ten vessels of war upon the ocean
to our one, our small navy being wholly ln-
sufficient in point of numbers to meet the
enemy. In fact, it might be truthtully said
that we would have to build a nary before
we could venture out intoth open sea with
any sort of equality. This would take many
months. In the mean time the enemy
would have comparatively full sweep upon
the ocean: hundreds Of millions Improperly
would be destroyC grass would begin to
flourish in our once crowded thoroughfares;
and the cotton planter would have the glorl-
Gus satisfaction of growing the staple at two
or three cents pound, for as much as he
could SELL which would moi be an immense
quantity. We would whip thaIl IN the end,
for American sailors know not and never
will know, q conqueror; but, in the mean
time, the ruinous losses, the PROSTATE COM
merce, the stagnatiou which would pervade
every description of business, should ad-
monish the staid and conservative, the plan
ter and the merchant, the agriculturalist and
the manufacturer, to use such exertIons as
will prevent such disastrous and melan-
cholv condition of affairs.
And S, I'll we run all these risks, and an
innumerable multitude of evils beside, to
achieve mere partizan triumph-to place
in office men who acknowledge neither the
law of nations nor the law of right, and
seem to care nothing for the mighty disas-
tiers which may come upon the whole coun-
try ana every interest, so that they carry
out their wild, dangerous, and Jocobinlcal
projects
1t would be well for the planters, mer-
chants, manufacturers, mechanics, proper
ty-holders, and all others interested in the
country, to examine this subject thoroughly.
If they do, it will become apparent that the
policy of Senator 1caglass must result in
war; and if Gen. Pierce is elected he will
certainly become ruling spirit in his Cab
met. Would a Democratic merchant pre-
fer that his business should be destroyed
than Gen. Pierce should be defeated p
Would Democratic planter sooner sell full
crops at full prices than miserable moiety
at two or three cents? And so on through
all the multifarious pursuits of life, which
NAV be stricken down by war. Let these
things be duly considered and understood;
and then if a majority deem Pierce, war,
devastation, ruined commerce, and Ian
gushing agriculture preferable to their OPP
posltes, they will, of course, make their
own choice.
The Newport .adperiiser is a leading
Pierce paper in Rhode Island. We propose
making few extracts from long editorial
addressed to the "Voters ofRhode Island, :"
which appeared in that paper of the 22d ult.,
showing the xlld spirit that auimates the
opposition in that State. This Rhode Islam
der vies with Douglass in his annexation
views, which he argues are to be carried
out by the election of Pierce. He thus APP
peals to his people:
"Already have we lost, by the weakness
and pusillanimity of our minority President,
the Sandwich Islands, which, as connect
ing us with Asia, would have been source
of wealth surprising even that OF Califor-
ma herself"
Further along, the Editor says:
"With a Democratic President, Cuba,
which, when Columbia and Mexico, in
1925, contemplated an expedition against
her, was only preserved to Spain by our
mediation, we risk nothing in saying, will
be acquired within the next four years, - sc.
This Pierce organ has extensive views
ve might term them immersion annex
a,;on. He is not whit more scrupulous
than West Indian buccaneer used to be