The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-30
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Greeley and tho Tropics.

Greeley and tho Tropics.
Greeley, after long tussle with Nature, 10 evil
IDENTIFY getting the upper hand. He proposes now
to abolish the present arrangement OF the tro-
MICS He has discovered that 80 long ~ the
present tropical arrangements continue, negro Ia
Dor viii be required for the cultivation OF their
productions, which, of course, ~ negro labor Ia
usver voluntary, amounts TO perpetual slavery
Iossesd Of the present inconvenient and democrat.
Ting location Of the tropics, Mr.. Greeley pro-
poses to make the free States tropical and 70 SUD-
stitute them for the unfortunate arrangement Of
Nature. The States Of New York, New jersey
Indiana, &c, are at once to become sugargrowing.
Greeley has fallen atoul Of . Chinese plant called
Sorghum, which possesses many wonderful pro-
perties, and which he guarantees will grow wher'
ever corn can be cultivated. This plant. he says,
Ia strongly charged with saccharine juice-oohs
readily into . very palatable and sweet molasses-
its bruised and pressed stalks will nourish tue cat
tie and 1t may be grown with profit for fodder
a'one The object of Greeley In introducing this
plant Is of course to demolish the sugar growing
interests of the Southwest. 1t Is not long since
he led q great fax crusade, which was to an
initiate cotton from the face of the earth. All
the free States were 10 cultivate and manufacture
fax In such a manner that the very name of cot
ton and with II, of slave labor, should cease from
among men This Sorghum we take to be another
development of the same philanthropic and practi-
calsprit and about likely to prosper. We expect
next to hear of some method of creating pitch,
iurpentine, &c at the North; some substitute for
the oranges of Florida the bananas, plantains &c.
of Cuba, and the coffee of Brazil. Greeley is
resolved that the North shall become tropical, and
Ia fact has become so devoted to warm climate
that even should he be disappointed in his aspira
tions here, benevolent Nature may remedy the
mistake she has made in his earthly location, by
sending him to latitude hereafter hot ensugh to
tbxw out even bis icy nature.
Asto the Sorghum, we don't expect it to supply
the national demand for sugar in our day and gem
GRAFTON. If it possesses saccharine juice enough to
sweetsn the Tribune Office, it must be the most
wonderful plant ever grown upon earth. We are
not advised as to the exact method Of cultivation
which Sorghum Planter Greeley proposes to pur-
with his shor.-gun sugar, but as sugar cultva'
til requires q great deal of heat, we take it for
granted that he will plant cucumbers between the
rows. so as to give the Sorghum the benefit of tie
sunbeams readily extracted from that vegeta-
Bile. The philosopher of the Tribune has to ad
nit that the ready capitalization or granting Of
sugar from this molasses is difficult process
requiring SKILL chemical knowledge, and perhaps
expensive machinery. AS yet, seed is scarce and
dear experience limited, machinery, even for
crushing and pressing, hardly in existence, while
the notorious inertia of the great of our farm
srs, and their reluctance to try new plants, weigh
heavily against any new industry such as this -
These are melancholy prospects for the Sorghum.