The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-17
From the Globe.
From, the Globe.
SLAVERY IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED
STATES.

Among the items cut by Mr.. WALSH from English
newspapers, for the National lnelIlgencer we find
statements, made by English noblemen OF the highest
character and standing clearly proving that British
slavery really much than the ingenious.
y invented iasehOods OF foreign and domestic aboli-
oniss represent negro slavery to be in this country
w hat would be the outcIy throughout the mona rches
OF Europe, fit established by the most enlight-
encd and religious dignltaIles OF our country giving
their testimony before the Senate of the Union and
under the highest sanctions and responsibility that
female slaves-young girls-were chained round in
the middle in our collees and made "to labor in
dragging small vehicles loaded with coal through
narrow apertures or passages, where they were OBJ
lged to crawl upon their hands and knees their gar
ments drenched with water" What, when further
informed that this physical labor, thus extorted
was not the worst-but that there was superadded
" the moral degradation to which these females from
their early years exposed, associated they are
with the lowest prohgacy and grossest sensualy ~
This was the testimony of the Bishop of Norwich
given in his place the House of Lords as peer OF
that body
Earl Fitzwilam thought "the chain cas improper
and ought to be prohbted but minated that the in
quiry, If extended to those employed in agriculture
would show the condition of such laborcrs to be no
better Another noble Lord thought that the agri-
cultural aborcr had the advantage in following a
healthy occupation
Earl Fitzwiam thought 60 boy engaged in d col
liei1 tcho had his bey tlH morning. noon and nirht
cultural laborer, who did not make more than seven
shillings weekthat is, not enough to feed both at
The Earl of Winchesea expressed surprise.
g The reidtire heahhness Of employment in agriculture
and MANUFACTURERS, II the noble Earl rouid breathe The
air Of cotton factory for sixteen hours, he ,cod mol
hare rery good appetite for has dinner SC.
Let the lntclgent and benevolent reader weigh all
the admissions and then balance the condition Of the
agricultural and manufacturing laborers of Great
Britain with that Of the slaves OF the South and he
will then be able to pass judgment on English and
Amer humanity. The children of the negroes
in this country do not work at all until they have at
tanned double the age of the wretched little creatures
who worked, 1t seems sixteen hours day IN the
factories ofEngand. Thousands and tens of thou
sands of children (says the Earl of Winchelsea) hid
been DESTROYED IN consequence OF their being compel
led thus to breathe atmosphere unfit for the preser-
walton OF health.
The slaves in this country well clothed and fed,
and york moderately in the open air. The slaves in
England (even females and chlldren) IN its mines,
work in chains all tours, in water, and under cir
cumsances of dreadful moral degradation to the
females In the factories, they worked sixteen
hours day in pestiferous atmosphere, which de.
sroys them by thousands In the agricultural districts
they are worked so hard at such small wages that the
parent cannot give his laborng child belly-full -
This is the testimony Of The House Of Lords as 10 the