Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-02-03

would be that of President elect and be case
not provided for in the Constitution
1t stated, the authority of letters from Washington
that the Select Committee in the Senate whom the subject
had been REFEREED had agreed report bill providing for the
payment of two millions ofdolars indemnity for French
spoiaions committed on American commerce. prior to the
year 1900
Mamgactories. We find in the Free Trade Advocate of
Saturday. article extracted from the Boston Commercial
Gazette with the capont Female riot Ia .Ne,o Englald'
The subject alluded to- in this article which was gem
orally noticed some weeks SINCE in the newspapers-name-
y-the turn out of the girls employed in cotton factory at
Dover in New Hampshire, account Of some aIledged
grievance in the regulation of the factory The statement Isl
that the girls the number of 800 marched through the
town with martial music accompanied with the of ae
y-hls was on Friday, and Monday the most of them
returned to their work
This Story certainly does not tell well for the herones who
were engaged in the adventure nor probably, does it say
much in the favor of the regulations of that particular factory
but it can scarcely be deemed fair liberal of the incl
dent bring it, it is here intended the aid of those
who opposed to american manufactures altogether The
Commercial Gazette avals itself of this fact charge very
plainly that factories generally, places in which females
are subjected to oppressive and degrading discipline and to
facues in this neghborhood at least will smile at the follow
in American actoesSuc regulations sub ect females, who
might their livelihood by housewifery under the guardian
ship of kind friends and parents, to discipline
than is known any where except on board ship of war; in
an army in time of public danger degrading to the mind
character and dignity of human nature the rod of the drill
sergeant of the slave dve-nay more the slaves of Geor-
ga governed with much less reguations-the
lash of the whip only wanting to complete the slavery of
those who have submitted to hem Imigt cases,
be deemed sufficient to such argument this,
that the service rendered by these females entirely vonta-
lry-that it ofvehood which they SEEK as free
gents, and prefer all others they would be found
gagged it The Dover girls themselves repented of their M
OF in very short time, and returned to their factory Now
what have the advocates of fee trade to object thss And
how they for the fact that many hundreds
thousands of females employed in factories in this country,
and seek such employment of their free choice Certain
y because they find the most advantageous and profitable
employment, they resort TO and might well suppose,
that with the friends of " free labour this would be sui-
ccn the ugubrous picture, that is here drawn Of
the granny and oppression exercised upon the females in
factories
The advocates of free trade, willie upon this particular to-
pc, would do well compare the moral condition and phys-
cal comforts of the females employed factories with those
of the of dsodey females who nfest the avote haunts
of CONNIE rce-New York and Philadelphia for instance
The comparison is fair oneor the of female imprty
and Wretchcdness which is observed in large commercial
places, surely the fruit Of extended commerce, the
Dover Sc riot of The American System.
There a. and extensive manufacturing establish
ments in the immediate vicinity Of this place, in which grea
number of females employed We speak from persona
observation well from the authentic information
when express belief that the condition of these e
males has single feature in it, to which the statement
the Boston Gazette will apply The idea of oppression or y
ranny exercised them absurda visitor tone Of hes
establishments would find them industro,sy employed, it
true looking neat comfortable and contented quiet mod
est and pect in their department and in all respects, wei
treated and cared for Their labour is neither harder
greater duration in the "a hours, than that Of females in he
class Of life generally And population of the same es
tent in this country, is the moral order of the community NOR
ed than here 1t would be well for those who feel incline
to enonce manufactures recepacles Of oppression
inpurity visit the Brandywnc, and witness in the orderly
comfortable and hcalhl appearance of its manufacturing POI
uiation, complete REPUTATION Of their Freudces There al
mo riots there nor any inclination for riots either among tn
men
Timothy Pickering Esq died Thursday lasta Salem, as
Is4 years
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