Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-10-19

of the girls at Lowell, turns out to be rath-
er serious affair with the manufacturers.
Between ttco and three thousand have left,
in consequence of which several of the
mills have stopped,-o.hers are nearly emp
ty. The girls say that they entered the
manufactures with the understanding that
the price of their board was a part Of the
contract, as much as the price of their labor,
and therefore contend that the former should
not be raised without the latter.
Whether their course Is lustiiable or un-
ustifabe-which would depend on the
facts in relation to the contract-we discov-
er in the affair the contrast between the con-
dition OF northern laborers and southern
slaves. The supporters of slavery, at the
north as we'll as the south, have not unfre-
quently asserted, as stoutly as though they
were conscious of speaking the truth, that
the condition of the slaves on the southern
plantations is .enviabIe, compared with that
Of the laborers in northern manufactures.
A few grains Of common sense, with a
small stock of facts on the subject must
always have enabled any one, dspos-
ed to do it, to repel the libe!ous comparison
The citation Of this affair at Lowell will,
in future, be sufficient TO put to confusion
all those who reiterate the SANDER What
is the true difference? 1t would take vol
ume to show it. 1t will he sufficient here
to glance at one or two points.
The girls at Lowell feeling themselves
wronged out of tuelre and a half cents
week, have the power to shut down the
gates and stop the cotton mills at once, and
it is only styled harmless "turn-om"-
Now look at the condition of the slaves
Females or males, young or old, though
they be wronged and robbed, not of twelve
and half cents a week merely, but of all
their earnings save scanty living-of
home-ot trlends-of husbands, wives, loY-
ers, parents, children, brothers, sisters, the
Bible, every earthly good, and all this all
their lives, yet they have no redress. If
for all unutterable abuse, robbery and wrong
they refuse to labor, with view to obtain
redress, it is styled an iasu1rection," and
they are slaughtered like dumb beasts
They have no remedy whatever.
Again, the girls in Lowell are not only at
, liberty to leave their employers when abus-
ed, but they are at liberty to cultivate their
. minds and their morals, with letters and
books. Not so with the slaves. In many
5 Of the slave States they are, and in all they
may be, constitutionally, prohibited reading
or writing either written or printed charac-
tiers. Again, the girls at Lowell have pro-
lection for their persons and their virtue a.
gainst lawless, lustful violence moreover,
: they give or withhold, at pleasure, the hand
! in marriage, and as many Of them as choose
I to avail themselves Of the benefits and bles-
sings of this institution so vital to the per
petuity of wholesome society. are defended
in it against encroachment. How different
the case OF, not only two or three thousands
, but, million Of females at the south
O When the lustful owner the brutal son, OF
4 savage overseer approaches, they must sub
Y nit. If they raise hand in defence they
s are felled to the earth-and for the second
: attempt at defence they may be butchered
u with impunity! Whether they are unmar-
. ried or married, it is the same. Marriage a,
mong them is but mockery. 1t is of nc
Y validity, is unknown in law. They may
r be torn from brothers and sisters, from Low.
} ers and husbands, at the caprice or cupidity
of the tyrants who lord it over them
What has here been said is only the begin
ming Of what might be protracted to almost
e any length, showing the contrast. But this
o may suffice for the present
It How TO "MAKE THE THING Go."-A be-
l. loved brother, in letter, postage paid, or
y dering the Telegraph to ten rnew subscrib
;. ers, says: 81 had hoped to forward this be-
fore, but labored in vain to get them started
= here to take hold of it. Finally / started
7 out last Saturday and found it not difficult
1t at all to make the thing 60" Now the Sc
e cret of this brothers success is, he started
out himself and went about the work. Anc