The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1841-01-19
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This table accounts for nearly the whole i'm
migration of l84O.-Sh1brooke Journal and
Gazette, Dec. II.
As an appropriate illustration of the con-
sequences of the propositi ton to give right OF
presumption and the right Of suffrage, we add
the following extract from the London Specta-
tor, from which it will be seen how unfit this
class of emigrants there spoken of are to exer
else the PrerogatiVes of heemen:
eeThe London Spectator gives the following
terrible picture of the effects wrought upon So
ciety in England by the factory system.
The wrongs which little children suffered,
and still to great extent do suffer, under the
factory system, arose from one general cause
the tendency Of the system was to neutraliZe
the parental instinct The child being removed
early from the parental roof, and thrown among
q crowd of unguarded and untaught associates,
at period when awakening passions are dePri-
we'd, by such association, even of the negative
control Of inexperience, the Innocence OF
youth" becomes a nullity; the human being pas
SEES at once from vacant Ignorance a infancy to
the premature knowledge of the roue. Whether
married or not led, the responsibility of a
parent is incurred before the duties OF childhood
are learned. Is it any wonder, under such cir
cumstances, If whole generations are utterly ig-
norant of what is duo to the moral and physical
education of whole generations oil children.
No one who has witnessed the scenes daily
occurring in the police reports of the nanufac-
turing districts, can doubt the extent of the
misery thus indicated-misery which is not the
result of poverty, but merely of ignorance
He will there see groups of boys and girls, all
of them married people or worse, herding tC
the witness boxes as parties or witnesses IL
beer house rows; lads put into the dock to an
swer for some reckless depravity, whilst Their
first child is yet unborn-possibly ever In theiI
honey moon. 1t will not lessen his regret mol
his sense of the appalling effect of such state
of things, if he sees humanity often assert Its
rights and affection show its untutored strength
ami scenes of squalid vice.
These are parents of the children for whom
the protection of the law has been required
Busted all day at the loom, neither father mol
mother can tend their own child; it is put out tC
nurse, at a weekly stipend. Hurried through
the earlier part of existence by toll and passion
the Intervention of progeny is an acciden
which is most wildly impressed upon the par
emit by its cost The father reckons his family
BY the expense they have put him to in tn
lying-in; the mother, by the weekly half crow
wrung from her earning for its nursing; both b.
the keep of the child till the law allows it to b
used, when their outlay can be made good on
of the sinews of their offspring. They canno
spare any thing for schooling in the interva
between mere infancy and the 'elawful age
besides, it will have schooling by the law
"tbat is oss good thing in the law''-when
goes TO the factory. All arts are used to haste
That period; and oftentimes the child is ma
neuvred past the inspecting surgeon som
months before its time.