The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-13
Sugar Cane from tho East.

Sugar Cane from tho East.
We have much pleasure in announcing that,
at the request of distinguished citizen Of
| Louisiana, the Secretary of the Navy more
| than year since, directed the commander of
the East India squadron to procure and send
home roots of the sugar cane from Salanga,
and the Straits of Malacca, which is believed
to be superior to the cane now grown in the
Southern States of the Union and that several
boxes of roots in growing state arrived in the
Marion at New York, and havo been turned
over to the Department Of the Interior for dis
tribution among sugar planters at the South
of course allowing first and due proportion to
the intelligent gentleman, Governor ROMAN, at
whose suggestion the importation was made.
General Pierce on the Fugitive Slave Law.
Our friends in the Southern States are called
upon to repudiate General SceTT, on the
ground that he has omitted to write a letter be-
fore his nomination, expressing his views on the
| Compromise measures. 1t is admitted that the
resolutions Of the Who National Convention
are sufficiently clear and explicit in this regard.
and that General ScorT accepted the resolutions
with the nomination, and that as man of truth
and honor he will act up to the pledge which is
involved in this acceptance. But, though he
adopts them, he "does not give them the ap-
prevail of his Judgment" 1t is claimed that
General PIERCE stands more favorably in this
respect than his illustrous competitor; and
this, too, though General PIERCE himself omit
ted to answer the interrogatorles of MIR. K. u.
SCOTT, or TO write the letter which that gen
tleman called for before the nomination.
But though General PIERCE wrote no letter
in regard to the Compromise measures. "the
Fugitive Slave law included" he has e1
pressed himself fully on the subject in speech,
and that recently. The speech to which we
refer has been substantially reported by more
than one newspaper, and we have the means
therefore of arriving distinctly at the sentiments
which General PIERCE maintains among his
own people on this interesting subject. We
apprehend that they are not calculated to sus-
tain the high euiogiums which are passed upon
General PIERCE at the South. for giving the
Fugitive Slave law the "approval of his judg-
ment."
We hardly think that our southern friends
will find any thing in General PIERCE's local
opinions on the subject of slavery, to justify
the contrast which they draw between him
and the Vino candidate. General SooTr 10 a
southern man, native of Virginia. his early
associations were among slaves and savehOld-
ers; his early opinions were formed in the midst
Of kindred and friends who were born under
the influences Of southern institutions. He
feels on the subject, necessarily, as southern
man. General PIERCE, on the contrary, wa.
born in the extreme North. in State where
widespread antpathies exist toward slavery
and removed from all those circumstances anc
influences which mitigate those antipathles
1t is absurd therefore, to pretend that Genera
SCor1 is all wrong on the matter of slavery
and that General PIERCE is all right; and tina
the South must take the latter because TIL
Fugitive Slave law has the approval of hi
Observation-Disclosures General SCOTT has mere
: ly accepted the WING resolutions, and appeal
r ed to forty years of public service as the pledg
and guarantee for his "srRIcr ADHERENCE" t
1 them.
II But we will not detan our readers longe
= from a perusal of the sentiments which Genera
,, PIERCE is in the habit of expressing among hi
friends and neighbors in New Hampshire o
. this subject. We have two reports of what h
n said on the I'd of January last at meeting
Is his Democratic friends in the town of Ne,
d Boston, New Hampshire. The first report W
copy from the Independent Democrat, journi
}, published in Concord, New Hampshire, tn
residence of General PIERCE. Its CORRECTNESS
d has never been questioned. The second repo
is in letter from one of his audience, write
the day after the speech was made, and pull
lshed in the Manchester IN. H. Democrat
the 9Th of January, copy Of which is befol
us. 1t will be seen that the two reports SUI
At s,antaly correspond
!. We desire the immediate attention Of N
J, contemporaries Of the Union to this matter 4
d. they are advocating General PiERcE's eleciic
by representing him az thoroughly sound
the Compromise questionable Fugitive Sla,
=, law included, as matter not only of judgmen
n but Of feeling-we should like 10 hear the
discourse on the texts that they will find in Il
extracts which follow:
( From the Ldere,d,nt Democrat, published al 90
81 -co,d, Nt,o Hampshire.
be AT the meeting appointed at New Boston Cent
nc on Fri4ay afternoon of January ID, by Gencr
- Franklin Pierce, TO address the citizens Of tn
town in regard TO the difficulties between him5
&c and portion Of the Deoc rats OF that section,
ad occupied the hour Of his in defending his militia
"a character lie explained the circumstance of
Taintng; and declared that, with the exception
a single occasion, he had led his command i'll I
blaze Of every battle"
ay After this be commenced speaking upon the
gitive Slave law. He said that il differed in no II
ID. portnnt particular from the Law Of 1893. eli
gymsn who was present said, that AS the invi