The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-21
PICTURE of THE ENGLISH.

DRAWN BY THEMSELVES.
HoRRoRs or TRAnsPoKrAraos.--Mr hoa'hy
delivered lecture transportation In 'he Tempe
ance Hall, Glasgow, on Saturday evening last hisi
briet introduction, Mr.. Mccarthy SAID 'ha' many
persons In their gnora nee committed crime purpose
" 10 be transported Unfortunately boys had thrown
their caps up olen court and huzzaed al tue e'oss
| of their sentence of transportation. " But alas
said the lecturer show little they knew OF The nun
ger, slavery, degradation exile dir sin, and tyranny
awaiting them They little thought OF The osyone'
the -o'-nine-tas, The blood-cIoted triangle, the
eg-chans and handouts the CORY scourge, the night
watch and bloodhounds, the chsin-gang and galiows'
| Surely, If they did, they would never rejoice me
emigrant is ell fed the convict starved The emil
grant lis respectfully dressed the convict all ino'ea
IN various degrading colors. The emgrant has bed
the convict wooden bench. The em'gran'
| has property and wages the convict no wages Ills
sole property an iron ring or chain on his leg
Wages2 military guard and an lron- hearted over
| locker. Wagesl Cold hali-baked dough or maize
meal, the they feed cows and pigs with, and
cold salt beef like block after has gone round the
globe in her Mnjesty's men, of-waI, and condemned
20 years old. Salt port from Tahiti, tough as sole
leather, and full Of animalcun. Wages, indeed
The cats and triangle. Wages are out oi the ques-
| ton.
| When a convict ship reaches its destination, the
| unhappy company are marshailed on deck chained
in couples guarded in boat loads to the shore lhey
then taken TO large barrack at Sydney or Hobart
Town, the Government or colonial officers come in
body 10 examine these Outcasts Of their native SOIL
the sur2eon-commander brings out Government pa
per for every man, called indenture. This paper
| Is under many heads; their name or names, height,
age, country color of hair eyes, moles, marks how
often in jail, whu jails, what crime. The Governor
stands by, while his head officer holds this indenture
in his hand and asks his questions from il. If the
| poor man should tell falsehood, Woe to his alter
life Up ito 1888 the convicts were hired out to set
tiers their arrival; but their conduct 30 bad,
that now every man, whether gentleman other
WISE is compelled to work six months upon the Gov
eminent works. which is for fifteen hours per day,
carrying stones or timber telling wood pushing hea-
Wy barrows working on new roads, cleaning the bot
tom OF the docks and han bors up L. The armps in the
tide. When they push down their spades, the water
covers their face, in using the pickaxe they are wet
to The head They are hostly all fast TO a large
chain, TO prevent their drow ming They dive and
clear away for masons to build the new quays &C.
| Their food 10 l-2 lbs. of maize meal per week; 7
lbs of salt beef, mostly unf, for use, -2 lbs. of
salt pork; B OF. OF soaE i-2 of salt No wages,
no tobacco, nor any other comfort Clothes grey
cloth cap broad arrow stamped on it, gley trOwsers,
short jacket, half yellow, half grey stockings grey
white rings; shirt grey canvass; kerchef neck
cloth; clothes all too small. After months of this
life the authorities think the convcts sufficiently
| drilled for assignment.
On a certain day-advertized in the Government
GaZelte-the settlers, farmers, and msstermechaD-
les, come to the sarrack for Government servants,
as they are called: these convicts all marched
out ~ long line OF rows the purchasers walk along
the line OF white slaves and pick out such as suit
them; the purchaser bids the convict walk run, hold
upehs leg, arm, &c hits his chest back to prove
if he is asthmatc, short in his breath if he is
sound In wind and limb, he bids HIM stand on side
until he picks from the rest; when he has enough, he
goes to an office, where he pays Government FL for
his Stops, the yellow dress hey call them canaries
halftanned Shoes cap three shirts little wool pad
Or he'd "a no cln 10Th lie tba
vict's outfit He then has to walk 10 the home of
his new employer, that is, tyrant. There is set of
laws made Tor the convict population, that mean
anything or nothing, or everything. Two mags-
trates can order man Fifty lashes OF the double or
Government cat you can't speak, you con-
wet presumption is against you you must be fog
ged The scorger comes, ties you up and his bloody
lash scatters the flesh your mother kissed often
tears away the blood that your father reared with so
much care II not, the chain gang your fate you
are doomed your heels loaded with cankering heavy
irons, TO work on the hot burning dusty road. until
your flesh is scorched like copper, and your hair
yellow as Jaundce your eyes and running
from hot winds OF The climate your bleeding wrist
carrying your chain sometimes, oh horrible you
are doomed 10. penal settlement for life gath, r
ing OF all human woes; black despair; land Of hor-
ror second hell, where nought but sadness dwells
Here the lecturer stripped and turned up his sleeves
TO show the manner Of Furnishing with the lash , he
exhibited four scourges; the first the small military
cat 'ne second TIE naval cat The THIRD, the thefs
or double cat; and lastly, the dreadful scourge Of
Norfolk Island.
Out of large district of conv,cts amounting to
10000, 1900 had been convicted aud logged Their
hesh scattered, their blood spilled their spirit broke
their strength reduced lher life shortened their dealt
miserable. Sad Is the convicis funeral-his grave is
desolate In IT'S misery none to pray pay
lures last tribute TO humanity but the wild sea-brd
which sings the requiem Of the murdered exile. His
unclaimed spirit has fled aofi-escaped from the de-
graded body that finds the solitary washed sepu-
chre Of The drunkards child the distant strands of
Tasmania. The convict is dead in law he can hold
no property; you might snatch the bread out Of bis
teeth No person need pay him any wages, though
he has ticket of leave. Col Breton states 81 have
seen hm at work when the thermometer stood us in
the sun, being about twice the heat of our summer
day the sun burns ulcers the back of tn cir necks
The gangs are in the country, locked up in square
boxes, movable, like wild beasts sixteen in each
Dor, allowing eighteen inches for every man. At
Sydney they seep'in huks twelve on one large bench
all mass Of filth. Their countenances are de-
monisc and shocking TO behold Sometimes in the
hulks there cells small that they cannot lie on
their baoks."