Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1832-09-28

may convince them, but does not satisfy US there
must be sO,nething wrong, where there Is such
suffering and oppression in free and civilized
country. Society ores TO these hapless innOcents
protection and subsistence; and, boastful orits
sfluence, is as we'll prepared 10 discharge the
debt. II, therefore, charity which in these days
is too prone to wander to foreign and ideal OBJ
jecls, should be deaf to the gfoans of the sufferer
and dead TO the call Of humanity, duty, the ordi.
naIy duty which all cipiliSed communities ac-
knowledge 10 the wretched, should compel them
to rescue the innocent victim from the whip of
his task master.
1t is, however humliating, but undeubted
fact, that to produce public benefit, society must
be anyinced, not that il is IT'S duty. but its in
teiest TO effect change. II is the interest Of
the north that swells the tariff TO eppressionit is
the interest of The south that urges notification in
to treason. Were the voice Of duty listened TO
by either, the patriot would not weep over the
approaching dissolution Of The unien.
Ia the same spirit we should, perhaps, con-
vince the community, that the benefits which ae-
crue to society by enslaving and Expressing thou
sands OF her children, are more than counterbal-
anced by its Disadvantages. The task is not
difficult one. The extension Of ignorance, seryil-
ty and crime, is too great not vitality to affect the
common veal. Our factories are now the schools
in which the tender and plant nature Of youth
goes through a probation which prepares both
of crime and infamy. Turned into promiscu.
Gus assemblage of girls and boys, with no pater-
nal care TO watch aud restrain, to teach the oyli-
ness Of virtue aud the l0athsomeness Of vice, to
direct their ignorance and sustain their feeble
ness--who can doubt the results They fall as
human nature, ungarded, ever will fall, into every
vice which unbri,led passions, evil habits, and
dangerous associations, can prompt. Every temp
tation to evil surrounds them, without voice 10
warn or hand to restrain; and it can be mat
ter of no establishment that they become, at an
| age when their bosoms should be unshadowed by
single fault, as old in vice as they are young in
years. Falsehood, dishonesty, incOntinepce, BIAS
phemy, aud total disregard for the decencies Of
virtue, are engrafted upon their youthful natures,
until humanity shudders at their early depravi-
| ty, and trembles for the community which CEN
taIns them. At more advanced age, the factory
rejects them, and they are thrown into the bosom
Of society, fitted, both seTes, for any thing which
passion, interest or iniquity, should suggest Ig-
norant to the lowest degree; besoted in habits Of
vice; servile from long slayery--they are unpre-
Il ileges of a citizen without Tes5ufse, SAFE "a
their holiness and inquty, they naturally turn Ia
crime, and sink into habits which fill our aim
houses and penitentiaries. Such are the schools
in which America is anxious TO form her children
/ Whether we consult the dictates Of humanity
the interests Of society, the character Of our PEG
pie, or the preservation Of our institutions, we
are admonished TO PROSTATE this union of the poor
and the prison house; where infancy and limo.
cence are punished; where thousands of those
who will hereafter constitute the freemen of the
land, while they are ensaved, are tortured, while
they are oppressed corrupted.