The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-10-30

poorer classes ~ the Oputntions IN any part Oh
Europe. even the fresst, il worse in every re
spect ihan that Of our negro slaves. In Great
Britain, where more freedom prevails, nomi-
nals At least, than elsewhere in Europe, their
condition 10 even worse than in Russia, under
the most despotic Government; and so il must
necessarily b. wherever lnoneyed oligarchy has
be called, or how free the institutions may b.
in theory. Il i NOT the phsaseology Of Con-
stitution or lava which gives liberty or equality,
butAhe manner in which they are administered
and il wealth Influences the administration oil
them, the poorer classes must necessarily be re-
duced TO The condition Of slaves, and the bitter
ness Of their slavery in country Of homogene-
Gus population, is aggravated BY the reaec ion
that they are made Of the same clay, Of the same
hue and fashion, and endowed with the same
feelings and faculties As their more fortunate
oppsessors. Nature has done nothing to recon
cile them to their condition, BY showing them a
canse and necessity for il.
In the shickly settled parts Of our nom slave.
holding States, the condition OF the poorer class
Of population IS fast assimating itself to that
Of the servile class 10 Europe. Already they
are but hewers Of wood and drawers of water
to their weather. brethren they are employ ed
as menials and lacqueys, and sometimes even
dressed in livery-wais behind chairs, clean
boots, and polish knives. Every newspaper
teens with evidences Of the wreiched condition
Of this class Of the population OF both sexes, in
the denseIy peopled sections of the North. Ac-
counts of suicide from despair, and even of
death from want. are common and Of women,
and delicate young girls, laboring from daybreak
till midnight, for the bare means OF sus,enance,
grudgingly afforded them as boon by their
wealthy neighbors or iyrannic;d employers 1t
is true that in the eyes Of the law they are
free. and on an equality with the highest: and
Mr.. Biddle's white valet de chambre, or Mr..
John Quincy Adams Swiss body guard, have
az many rights, in theory, as their bosses"
So in England, the law is open 10 every man !;
but it was well replied, that it was open as the
London Tavern waste those who could pay
for it,
Any man who has stood upon the levee at
New orssn: saa Assr With h'6s heir merry faces.
and their loud deep laugh, chattering incessan,-
ly, and with as little of slavery in their mien
and BEARING as Black Foot of the Sa.ka,chs-
wan, must have thought 10 himself that how
ever lsmen,abie their condition might be in
theory, il agreed most admirably with them in
prac ice. Finer specimens Of the ply steal man,
Of the same race, could hardly be found on the
plains OF Bambouk. or in the 70 ests of Sanga-
ra: and we doubt whether intercourse with the
whites has diminished the mental powers of the
race.
Bot one who has beheld the unhappy chill
dren Of poverty who infest the wharves of a
populous Northern city, haggard and spritles.,
watching defereniially the counrenances Of ma
bob merchants or dandy clerks and duplicating
their fellow man for "Ieave to TOLL" mus, have
felt his cheek burn, and have thought that abo-
ltionists might find wide field for the exercise
Of practical democracy and philanthropy, with
out travelling 10 the South in search of il.
We have been led TO these reflections by acct
dentay reading in Northern print the follow
ing notice of q recent occurrence, which we
venture to assert cannot be paralleled by any
thing 10 The annals OF southern slavery. We
think II becomes the people among whom such
things can occur, to be little more moderate in
their invecuves against s'ave-holders, and TO
draw little less frequently upon their Magma
ITO" lor horrors IN the SOUTH when the reality
can furnish them such thrilling scenes Of a'roci-
~ at home:
HoasmlE ArRocrr--We learn, from the Exeter
S s1i S.e., ina. on tuesday last, I'm IN
him Tor the violation and murder Of a child not Q
yesrs Old. whom, but a few weeks before, he had
o.r r% Ssiors swes ch. mw%as r. re S was
market, for examination. 1t appeared IL evidence
that the deceased ~as 8 yesrs old last March, and