The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-06-18
From the Globe.
SLAVERY IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED
STATES.

Among the items cut by Mr. WALSH from English
newspapers, for the National Inteigencer, we find
statements, made by English nobemen of the highest
character and standing, clearly proving that British
slavery Is really much than the ingenious
ly invented fasehoods of foreign and domestic abo-
tlonsts represent negro slavery to be in this country
What would be the outcry throughout the monachies
OF Europe, If it established by the enIigh-
ened and religious dignitaIes of country giving
their testimony before the Senate of the Union, and
under the highest sanctions and responsibility, that
female slaves-young grs-were chained round in
the middle In our coleries, and made {" TO labor in
| dragging small vehicles, loaded with coal, through
narrow apertures or passages, where they were OBJ
llged to crawl upon thei hands and knees their gar
ments drenched with water!" What when further
informed that this physical labor" thus extorted
was not the worst-bat that there superadded
" the moral degradation to which these females, from
their early years, exposed, associated as they
with the lowest profigacy and grossest sensuaty /! ~
This was the testimony of the Bishop of Norwich,
given in his place in the House of Lords peer of
that body.
Earl Fitzwilliam thought I" the chain acas improper
and ought be prohibited" but minated that the in
quiry, extended to those employed in agriculture,
would show the condition of such laborers to be
better. Another noble Lord thought that the agri-
cultural laborer had the advantage in following a
healthy occupation.
Earl Fitzwilliam thought Ga boy engaged in COL
liery, ,cho had his belly full morning, NOON and night"
was likely to be more healthy than the of agr
cultural laborer, who did not make more than seven
shlllngs week-that is, not enough to fee both at
The Earl of Winchelsea expressed surprise
the reatiue healthiness Of employment IN agriculture
and manufactures. If the noble Earl ,co,ld breathe the
air Of cotton factory for sixteen hours he lvould not
haze ue1y good appetite for his dinner" SC.
Let the Intelligent 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 can humanity. The children of the negroes
In this country do not work all until they have
tanned double the age of the wreched little creatures
who are worked it seems, sixteen hours day in the
factories ofEngand Thousands and tens of thou
sands Of children (says the Earl of WincheIsea) 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 work moderately in the open air. The slaves in
England (even females and children) in its Mines
work in chains all fours, in water and under cir
cumstances of dreadful moral degradation to the
females. In the factories they are worked sixteen
hours day in pestiterous atmosphere, which de-
stroys them by thousands In the agricultural districts
they worked hard such small wages that the
parent cannot give his aboring child yfull :!
on ethe labo'1ng poor Of all classes in England This
not the fabrication of such British writers as the
Trolopes, the Halls, and the Abdys, nor of our own
romancers who attended as Delegates, the Worlds
Convention at London.