Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-11-19

The American Freeman replies at length
to an article of ours published a few weeks
since, in which We spoke ofthe relative con-
diton of The European laboreI aud the SOU
them slave. Ii is true, so far as our article
is concerned, that it rested upon, our own
ipse dirt. We addnccd no argument, and
mainly because we thought none Was ncccs-.
sarv. We believed then and still believe,
that it is a fact which unpre udiced persons
acquainted with the daily history Of the two
countries, will admit, that the European Ia
berer, and particularly the day laborcr, is
worse fed, worse clothed, worse treated,
more brutalized, and more slave in every
point of view, than the Southern slave ;; and
we believe it is a fact too, that there is no
one Objectionable feature, but which has its
parallel fully in the condition Of the Elrope
European laborer can emigrate, it is not an
easy matter for those who are starving al
home, to make their way TO another land.
We presume that the number Of persons in
the island of Great Britain, who are uSt able
TO live, without the possible ability TO emf
CRATE, equals the number of slaves in the
southern states. Speaking of argument,
how far the editor of the Freeman rests upon
his mere ipse dirt, those who read his art-
Gle will see. For our own part we see no
very cogcnt reasons in it to induce US to
abandon our position. If we are wrong and
himself right then are all newspaper reports,
and the statements Of travellers of saqaciiy
AMI observation, mere moonshine and ent-
tied to no credcnce Bat we must expect
abolilionisls TO speak good word for Eu-
rope. 1t is there, when England found the
pauper labor of her own people cheaper than
slave labor, that slavery was abolished, and
f.om there the loudest appeals now come
for the liberation Of the African. We trust
no one will misunderstood US, as advocating
southern slavery. We only argue against
the policy which makes the abolition of sla-
very the primary and sole motive of political
action, when by SO doing, there is evident
danger Of our cncoun,cring the infinitely
worse evils which affiict Europe.
Since writing the above, we came across
the following, copied from an English paper.
We append it as argument to our own ipse
DIRT. Should the Freeman come across
any thing equally conclusive to the contrary
We should like to hear from il:
AGRICULTURAL ID: STRESS IN ENGLAND
Wilmer and Smiths European Times. Of
the 10Th ult., in is domestic summary,
says:
The agricultural districts in the neigh
borhood of London have been again blaz-
ing with the torch ofthe iacendiary This
mode of destroying properly is, Of all 9TH
ers, the most bar barous and the most COW
aldly. But in the prevalence of the crime
may be read the deep and bitter distress OF
The peasantry. In no part of the world is
there more hard working, hardship-en-
during class than the farmers laborers of
England. Badly paid, wletchedly fed and
poorly housed, they are living instances of
the Indifference with which the law makers
have too long regarded the human stock on
their estates.'
1t is singular fact that when the crops
are most abundant in England, the condi