The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-30
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From Me Nen Hauea Register. n nr. ArIIIr A Nl,IlD lDINrC GNSEE

THE MANUfAClURlNJrS DIE E4Tu
 A friend informs us, that, in passing through manufacturing district in New England, he saw at least one factory running night and day, with two sets of workmen.'
 The above we take fr m the New ork Tribune, of the 10th inst, and have coPieo it into the Register, that our readers may see the beauties of the manufacturing system, which the whigs have protected, to the ne glect of all other industry of the country and calculate the charming state oi peslec- ton it is arriving at in free America, under the auspices of federalism. "ftunntng nagM and dauio And how prosperous and happy New England would become, Ii all the iac- tories within her borders were in the condi- lion of this e.onep' The rising generation the children of our factory yillages-might, it is true, grow up weak and sickly, under inc wear and tear of midnight labor in the workshops; and perhaps not few would break down under the hardships their task masters had imposed upon them, and find est from their lahers with the worm and the sod but then the system-the glorious Ame- tican system! how that would flourish !!
 Seriously, we look upon this new evidence of what the whig editor calls the "actlvlty oi our manufactories,n as but the beginning of a train of evils, which, we have fears, may at no very distant day, make the condition of our factories similar to that of the Manches- aer and Spitallields factories of England; and before we would see any portion of our ln- habitants reduced to the condition of English operatives, under her accursed iacsory sys
 lem, we would have every factory swept from the land.
 We had occasion, last spring, to call the attention of our readers to the persecution which the helpless females of the " Middle sex Mils' were suffering, in Massachusetts, because they objected to their liege lords" cutting down their wages, after he had agreed to give them a fixed price for their labor The conduct of the cotton lords, in this -ln- stance, we strongly condemned, and, at the time, pointed out the tendency of such mea- sures towards the degradation of our people,; but we did not look so soon for this second step in the progress of Henry Gays "sys- temp ''Work night and day, with two sets of workmenr' 20 The next thing we shall read of, will be tnight and day, with ono set of workmen, divided off into night-watches of three hours each; D next, we shall hear that children over six years old are admitted into the factories, on their parents binding them, by mdenture, to serve the proprietor, or whonsoever he shall choose, till they arrive at twenty-one next, that the children are allowed each so much bread per day; and next--but we need not go on enumerating j; in word, we shall have the blasting and whitening curse of the English factory sys- tenn in our midst, perfected on the soil of freemen! Then may we be prepared to see here, as there, men, women, and children, who might have been ornaments to the com munity in which they live, decrepid, deform- ed, broken down, ignorant, stupid, not know ing how to take care of the body, or provide for the welfare of the soul
 This is the system which the whig papers -the Palladium and its kind-are endeavor- ing to foster and build up, al the expense of the mechanic and the farmer, whose capital is their industry. This is the system, too, for which the present whig tariff was enact eda tariff which is rnining our commerce. and clogging the wheels of industry, in or der to pamper and accommodate the 's lords of the loom," who will .sbleed freely for Henry Clay, and the cause he sustains.''