Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-07-09

ABOUT the wharis and public storehouses-a
pest to the city, and only preparing to be-
come the enemies and victims of the law in
stead of its upholders.
But although there is so great an amour,
of misery and wrctchedness among US, on
looking at England and beholdng in the
midst OF that great nation hundreds dying Of
starvation-thousand and tens of thousands
in an abyss of wretchcdness infinitely lower
than any that has yet been reached among
us-we cannot help exulting at the contrast
thus presented. Our institutions do not who'll
ly overlook the mass, however far short they
may come of satisfying all their necessities.
They are not ground to the earth to support
useless but splendid establishments, nor do
their tears and blood water the tree of proud
but Elusive glory. In one of my late let
tiers gave you some statistics of want and
poverty as they exist in sections of Great
Britain, taken from speech in Parliament
of the Hon. M. Villicrs. | might extend
the gloomy records to any extent, but il is
needless. | have met in the London Times.
some details of suffering arising from the
wretched Factory System, of Great Britain:
sketches of suffering which makes the blood
chill with horror. observe that some of
them have been copied by some Of
our city papers, but they arc none the worse
for that, and may yet be new to many of
your readers. | select the following from
long catalogue of similar cases brought to
light and first made public in the Minutes of
evidence taken by British Committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the working and evils
of the Factory system.
No. =" Eliza Marshall, lives at Leeds-worked
| at Marshalls Factory. Am seventeen years Old
Father dead. Sister and self did what we could to
! support mother Have cried many hour in the
factory. Could scarcely get home-sometnos had 10
be 'tralled home. have an iron on my right ieg,
and my knee is contracted Worked in great pam
and misery. Sister carried me up to bed many a
time. The surgeon says it is with long standing at
the mill, and that the marrole is quite dried up, and
Will never be formed again.
No. b" Stephen Bnns stated, have worked in
Marshalls Factory. The work produces deformty. II
lanes the children. The work eXacted from the chill
dren IS all that can possibly be done. 1t cannot be
done without rcsortng to loggng. 1t is an offence
for any one to speak TO another. The water used for
hot spinning is heated 10 10 or l20 degrees The
GcnlGreh h1ve almost continually to plunge Their
hanus ana arhlsh that water Inc neat OF the rooms
ana the steam almost naceratc their bodies ard their
clothes are steamed and wet. If they fall sick they
are turned adrt directly-without wanes-wlrhout
provision. If CIR complain of lll-usage, she is dis
charged immediately. Inc present system Is running
lhe using seneraon' IL IS sarlfclng the children
Tor a pary consideration p
No. g." Samuel Downe. | was ten years old
when ,.1 ! began to work at Mr. Marshal's mill at
worked till eight at night The engine never st6pped
e%cept lofay 'I'ea a. Gr'af ,ne' lne cniren
able severity wns used in tina, mill. was strapped
without haySa ows and D wn ,rccJ o imam
my face IN bed at one time and through that left
mans back and strapped and then | was strapne1
ana nIckled with two o., straps to an IRON pillar ano
tow and twisted it in the shape of cord and put 1t il
ag ms oo W. rrn cI bus pg hnnn my gu r nc ' gaT
lowed to sit down, Young women were beaten 4:
, No. I'WTfe oycrlooker examined sovs. he walk,
founa me room Th lex m his hand ma II emu.
the shoulder and conducts it to iron cisrn which
Isss of s"yH k 5 s and ds Il aver e han M
csse i; ana sends i to It's work In that drPpn!
day. That's the punishment for drowsiness! "
"wo b,vo ,os, n,,,ro. oe ,.io,,,, s,,', -.
, crpPles from losing their nbs-many from standn.
after that they will ask the overIpoksr to jet them :,
d"wn-?abut they must not They, then begin to b
their feet turn out-they become splay-footed, an,
delormed in the way de descrbed ''S N''o" "''
There can be no doubt that this eytrom,
misery is produced by the great excess O
population for the provided means of subsis
tence, by the excessive corrup,ion amonp TN
labormg classes for employment, leadin!
Of course to the extreme depression Of wa
ueS and 10 tho surron,Jo, IS ,L, L-a.,
, BODY and soul into the hands If ,v,ric;ou
hcar,lcss capitalists. How different is tn
condition of our own laboring peoplc-o
those who work in our own factories A
Lowell for instance, which is most freouent
S " referred to because il is the mos, extensive