Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-05-06

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hill top that not whitened with the bones of
her sons. But sir, the old Cradle of liberty needs
no defence from me. Her own simple story is her
best defence, and where is the American that has
not learned it There she stands and will stand
Gland mark on the cliff of fame"
and the greater the attempt helitle and obscure
her, the prominent she will appear, the bright
er she will shine, attracting the admiration of man.
kind.
rMr. MCDONALD replied to Mr.. MoRsE, and
MI again spoke iD reply to Mr., Mcdonald
The following is a sketch Of his remarks.]
Mr.. Morse said he hardly thought it necessary to
say another word in reply 10 what had just fallen
from the gentleman from Limerick. His whole ar
gument as far as argument had been used, was dir
ected against the entire policy of manufacturing es-
Establishments not TO particular provisions of :he bill
under consideration. lie tells US they are mere
hospitals where large numbers of females are col
lected 10 pine away in sickness And TO prove his
position he wanders across the Atlantic, on voyage
Of discovery, among European establishments. lilo
has told us of the trials and suferngs of the Euro
pean opera,ives-at what tender age their ebors
begin. and how many weary hours they drag out in
toll This said Mr.. Nj. is all true ; but what has it
10 do with the American establishments They are
under very different regulations from the European,
and he thought it very singular mode of reasoning
to make wholesale charges against things as they
exist here, and then go to Europe after facts TO sus-
tain them We are TO take things as they exist here,
on American soi-take them rs they have grown
up under equal laws, and republican institutions.
and not 90 INTO the monarches and arlsiocracies oil
The old world after examples 10 show The bad effects
of a system that has groHn up in young and DIS
fant county, where il has been nursed by far more
tender hand. This perambulatng over half OF cren-
ton without passing notice ofthe working the sys
TEN among us, looks like an abandonment fthe po-
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facts can be found nearer than Manchester Lyons
TO sustain them. He said he hoped the gentleman,
in his anxiety to iastpn reproach upon manuactur-
ing establishments, would not forget that European
misery was not all penned up within the walls Of
iactorirs. lie must remember that if misery exist
among operatives, it was by no means peculiar TO
their employment, but extended 10 nearly all branch
of European labor; and was one Of the results of
their political and social conan Wealth and
political power are there concentrated in few hands
while poverty and oppression are the constant aiien
dants of the great mass of society, 1t matters but
little in what employment lhev arc engaged. All
have to feel the yoke. IF the cotton weave! grows
faint in bending over his task. the coal digger
looks up from his subterranean home, and signs
to breathe the pure air of Heaven. and gaze up
on the green earth's loneliness. The tiller of the
soil is generally mere tenant at will; and often,
very often, in TIE midst of abundance which his
own hands heap up to swell the Golfers Of his
lord, struggles with misery and want. But not
so in this young and growing land, where the
paths to wealth and fame are ope II to all. Here
all choose the employment best suited TO the ir
taste, and enjoy it, fruits nnmncst'd 1.-THE life
of an operative is miserable and degraded as
has been represented, why do many of our cit
lzens prefer it to other branches Of employment
Does any one suppose it natural TO the energy
and love of freedom which characterize the
American to seek hospitals for homes? Surely
| H..
! errors on this matter One error IS, the estab-
fishing OF his premises on side of the ATTAIN
tic, and his conclusions on the other 50 far as
American experience goes, ii is entirely against
nun, Tor 1T rs sad. ON good authority, that 'sx
ont of ten of the females enjoy better health than
before being employed in the mills, and that one
half the males derive the same advantage" He
SAID II their health was not really improved, he
knew ofno reason why 1t should be di FINISHED to
such lanentabIe extent as Was represented -
Regular labor and temperate life are always con-
ducIve to health, and as these things both exist
in high degree in establishments, it is but
reasonable Il al the natural results should follow,
unless laborers in manufacturing establishments
are made exceptions to the laws ofnature, or some
deadly miasme sent to shroud the IN in its noxious
Tnpors, and poison the vital springs of life. The
feeble, sckly race, con urrd up by the prolific
imagination ot the gentleman, and sent out from
his fountain OF disease to curse the land, was an
idea to visionary to alarm the most credulous It
could never take form or be embodied in any
thing but the Imagination
But, continued Mr.. A. another objection has
been raised against the whole policy of mannfac-
turing establishments. 1t is that they tend to
the deterioration of morals that through their
means vice is increased. He knew TINT much
pains had been taken By certain class Of poti-
Clans to spread these Impressions and thus create
a prejudice against this branch of American la
Dor. But was the charge well founded Have
any facts been presented to sustain it No, said
he, instead of facts they have been assaulted by
sweeping denunciation, and general condemna
ton. Can 1t be true that either the viest of our
race are collected in factories, that there is any
thing the nature of the employment, or the reg
ulations by which they governed, to arouse
and keep active the unhoy passions of the heart
lie believed not so far as his in Information extern
ded, the reproaches cast upon them were equally
UNJUST to the employed and the employers and that
no more, if as much, vice existed among the or
1000 females employed at Lowell, as could be
found among an equal number, take them as they
come, in other conditions of lite. They 90 there
to better their conditon-go because they get
more amply rewarded than in other kinds Of en-
ployment. 1t is true they 90 from the humber
walks OF life. but generally Of that cast of
character which prefers the independence bes-
lowed by honest industry to idle poverty and de-
pendence. Vice is confined to no particular class
or station in society. Srrpent-like il creeps in
mars the peace and blasts the happiness of the
highest as well as the lowest.
The condition of the operatives, he continu-
ed, was favorable, instead of adverse, not only to
the promotion of morality but intellectual culture
Lowell was sustained entirely by manufactures 8,
and the laborng population of no city IN the I'M
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