Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-06-21
Me.srs. John l..
and others.

SLAVERY IN ENGLAND AND TIE UNITED STATES.
Among the items cut by Mr.. Walsh from English
newspapers, for the National lntelllgencer we hno
state ns, made by English nobemen of the highes ST
character and standing, clearly proving that British
sla very is really much than the ingenious
fasehoods of foreign and domestic AboonIsts re-
present negro slavery to be in this country what
would be the outcry throughout the monarches OF Eu-
rope, if it established, by the most enlightened
and religious dgntares of our country giving their tes-
timonv before the Senate Of the Union, and under the
highest sanctions and responsibility that female slaves
young girls chained round the middle IN our
co!lieres and made "to labor in dragging small ve
hcles, loaded with coal, through narrow apertures
or passages, where they obliged 10 crawl upon
their hands and knees, their garments drenched with
water What, when further informed that this
"physical labor, thus extored, not the worst
but there was superaddcd 'the moral degradation to
which these females from their early years are exposed
associated as they with the lowest profligacy and
grossest sensuality -! This the testimony of the
Bishop of Norwich, given in his place III the House oil
Lords peer of that body
Earl Fltzwam thought "tle chain was improper,
and ought TO be prohbited; but ntmated that the
inquiry, if extended 10 those employed i'll agriculture,
would show the condition of such laborers TO be no
better Another noble Lord thought that the agricul
ural laborer had the advantage in following healthy
occupation.
Earl Fi,zwilliam thought ia boy engaged in a COL
lery, who had his belly full morning, n, and night,
likely 10 be more healthy than the Of agr
cultural aborer, who did not make than seven shlngs
week-that is, not enough to feed both.
The Earl of Wnchelsea expressed surprise at ''the
relative heathiness of employment in agriculture and
man uactures. If the noble Earl would breathe the
air of cotton factory for sixteen hours, he would
not have very good appetite for his dinner, &c .
Let the intelligent and benevolent reader weigh all
the admission of the extracts given below, and then
balance the condition of the agricultural and manufac
turing lahorers of Great Britain with that Of the slaves
of the South and he will then be able pass judgment
on English and American humanity. The children of
the negroes in this country do not work at oil, until
they have attained double the age the wretehed little
creatures who worked it seems sixteen hours day
in the factories of England Thousands and tens of
thousands of children (says the Earl of Winchelsen)
had been destroyed in consequence of their being conn.,
PEELED thus to breathe al atmosphere unfit for the pre-
servaton Of health
The slaves in this country are well clothed and fed,
and work moderately in the open air. The Slaves in
England even females and chldren in lis mines, work
in chains all fours in water, and under circum-
stances Of dreadful moral degradation TO the females
In the factories, they work l6 hours day in pesti
ferrous atmosphere, which destroys them by thousands
In the agricultural districts, they worked hard,
and at such small wages that the parent cannot give his
laboring child belly full!. This is the testimony of
the House of Lords the condition of the aborng
poor of all classes in England This not the fabrica.
ton of such British writer's the Trollopcs the Halls
and the Abdys, of our romancers who attended
as delegates, the Worlds Convention al London.
TG[ob.