The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-08-14

our readers to the letter from ".H FHr-
mer" which will be found on the first
page. Let 1t be remembered that
Franklin Pierce is in favor of this
Gree Trade Policy.'-That with him
for President, all hope of the passage of
any measures for the relief of our manu-
featuring interests is utterly vain.
Farmers remember that home market
is the only certain and reliable one, and
that the policy of the Wing party is and
ever has been to create a demand at
home for the produce Of your fields, that
YOU may not be dependent on foreign
market, and subject to lis fluctuations
THE POSITION OF PIERCE.
One of the fixed movements OF The
present Presidential campaign is that
Cen. Pierce has thrown himself into the
arms of the South and trusts, in the main,
to the votes OF southern States for his
election. Slavery eXtensionist $, States
Rights locotocos and southern secession.
lists of every class, claim him as their
peculiar candidate; he is, to use the
words Of Mr., Forsyth, the candidate
Of their "creation and choice" he ac-
cepts the compliments of their praise,
relies for success upon the position in
which they place him, and his organs
reiterate such of his acts and sayings as
favor a southern system Of policy and
southern interests: at the same time de-
nying the positions he has taken at the
North, and pronouncing as wing false
hoods, quotations given from his speech
es at home in New Hampshire.
And we Of AIaryland-yea, even the
wings of Maryland, are called upon to
support Gen. Pierce onthe grounds that
! he is a better candidate for our interests,
and comes nearer our views than Gen.
! Scott.
/ We beg, respectfully, TO decline the
invitation to support any such double
faced demagosue. That he is double
aced and unworthy of trust, either
North or South, we believe is demon.
strable, and has been demonstrated. be.
yond doubt.
We need 90 TO no trouble to show
that he is claimed to be the champion
Of Southern views, and urged as the
Southern candidate. That is the ground
upon which we have to meet him here
We are on all sides met by the assertion
that he suits the South better than Gen
Scott. On this ground his friends here
rest his claims.
We have heretofore alluded to his po
sition last winter at the North, which
his friends now deny, and pronounce t.
be fabrlcations of his enemies. w,
have before quoted from his speech de
Iivcred on the End of January last, a
New Boston, n. H., in which he sale
he "loathed the Fugitire SlGre Loar"-
one OF the great "Compromise Measures
in which the South claimed to be mos
interested-thus placing himself in tn
position OF an enemy to the Compro mise
Now, there are portion of the PEG
pie of this Union who do loathe tn
Fugitive Slave law, but they are sup
posed by Pierce and his friends to be o
less importance to him than are thos
who are in favor Of it; hence, when yor
mention that speech of his, the,
"straightway begin to curse and swea
and deny" that he ever said so, and Gu
themselves loose from and denounc
those citizens who are the opponents o
the Fugitive law.
Let us again examine the proofs tina
he made the speech IN question.
LIST. Two papers, both "Democrots,
on the same day publish each rcpor
of the speech. They both state il
words almost identical, that he said
he loathed the Fugitive Slave Law
'that he had most revolving feeling a
the giving up Of a slave 'the Law
was opposed to humanity and mora
right"
end. These papers: "The lndepcn
dent Democrat" and ''Ihc Manchester
Democrat" belonged TO the ultra fire.,
Isoll wing Of the locetoco patty IN New