The native American., 1837-12-02

a system Of deception was pursued. Ships had
been advertised to sail from this port that had
never been here, ships were advertised, with the
names of the captains, that had never been in
this port at all. He (Mr. ShieD thought it was
hardly fair, that gentlemen of the highest res
lpectabiity should suffer their vessels to be ad-
vertised for places, to which they were never
intended to CO."
Alderman Evans showed, from what had oc-
Cured touching his own ships, that there was
rivalry in employed agents, to underrate the con-
dtion, and falsfy the destiny of vessels.
Mr. Egerton Smith, as proof of the necessity
of something being done for the protection Of
emigrants, stated, that almost year ago some
bread had been doled out to these poor people
the rats would not eat. 1t was poison-complete
poison.
The resolution was then agreed to, and the
following gentlemen were appointed to form the
committee, Messrs. She'll, Evans, w. w. Cur
rie Woolwright Brocklebank, H. Lawrence
and Leathom
Mr. Alderman Evans suggested that Mr..
Egerton Smith might probably be able to give
the committee some information on the subject
Mr.. f. said he should be very happy to give
any information in his power; and he knew many
things relating to emigrants which it would not
be safe to publish.
FRAUDS ON EmreRANTs.-We have received
a communication upon this subject, which,
from its insolent tone, and its TRADE of SANDER
against our own country, bears strong marks Of
an escape from Botany Bay, or a transportation
to our shores from British prison" We are
blessed with many such importations, "who
leave their country for their countrys good;"
and visit ours, to indulge, with less restraint, in
those habits which, at home, lead to tread-mills
and transportation. Fortunate would our conn-
try be, should they seek some other land; for
though we are always ready to welcome honest
and industrious strangers, and can always ind
enough, we have too many rogues OF native
growth, to feel under any necessity Of patronis-
ing those of all countries, and especially Of a
country which can furnish a greater supply than
any other. We always make distinction be-
tween the Irish peasant, flying from oppression
and the English rogue flying from justice; and
we wish that our laws could be as discriminate.
But to the allegations, which we give in the
writer's own words, omitting his name, which
he is probably desirous of seeing in print:
Are you aware of the general practice
throughout this country, of incorporated compa-
nies decoying labor from England, or borrowing
means to do it here?
The Canal Company, at Washington, sent
their decoy duck" and he brought at one
SAIL four ships, jammed with emigrants. On
their arrival on the canal they found themselves
duped by American "decoy ducks" according
" they left the works. Many were taken and
decided that even specializing enemies could not
keep Briton as bondsman, though they might
confine him as debtor. The practice Of coal
|speculators are too notorious, so will come to
your own door. The Philadelphia Exchange
was built by "decoy ducks" and let Strickland,
the Architect, dare to say that they were hatch
ed in Britain. During the year '32, the jour
neymen Of Philadelphia struck for wages, and
" decoy ducks" were sent to bring focks from
Britain to fill their places. Strickland knows
whose name was used. Besides, were not the
Exchange caps decoyed from the heads of poor
Italian women? l have been stationed on va
rious canals, and have also been in the employ
of our Front street merchants, and were your
Ledger sufficiently large, could balance an ac-
count of decoy ducks, that would startle your
superic:s in practice, and might probably induce
you to change your tune on that national fiddle
|--prejudice."
Now we ask all those against whom these
charges are made if they be true? Have any of
our corporate companies decoyed laborers from
Engl land, ana QecelVeu Inetn dlteF tncII dIIlVd!
Were the foreign laborers on the Washington
Canal decoyed from their homes by that corpo-
ration, plundered Of their means in Liverpool,
and on ship board, by American agents, or for
eign agents in American service, and then land
ed pennyless upon our shores? Has Mr. Strick-
land been concerned in any such transaction?
Were Italian women employed to sculpture
the capitals Of the Exchange, and then defrauded
of the stipulated price9 Were any English la
borers, employed in erecting that edifice, treated
in the same manner? Let the accused tell us.
We can hardly believe that they would decoy
laborers from England, when not less than thir-
ty thousand foreigners annually land upon our
shores; and if they did, we know not how the
laborers could suffer by exchanging the starva-
ton and oppression Of their own misgoverned
land, for the high wages and plentiful feeding Of
ours.
The stupid bombast about the inability Of
specializing enemies to keep Briton as bond
man, though they might confine him as debt
or" is worthy Of those cosmopolites who come
all the way from Newgate and Botany Bay, to
teach us how to manage our own affairs. The
com plainants before the Baltimore Jury had no
more right, as Britons, than they would have
as Hottentots and whether they were one or the
other, never occurred to single juror. The
rights of Britons' are unknown in this coun-
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