The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-02-12
he Beauties Of the Factory system.

The Hsrnu,ies Of the Factory system.
The following extract we have
from the "Nazarene," by Georg,
LiPpard, Esq. The sketch is {
thrilling one.
Do yon see that huge building lift.
iE3 its enormous walls, high over
the surrounding structures, which
seem dwindled into nothing by com
parison with red glare, flashing
from each of its thousand windows
Do you hear the sounds that groan
and thunder, from the cellar of this
mammorth edifce to the roof? Per-
haps it is great festival hall, where
an army of jewellers feast with wine
and music! Wherefore this sound
this light, this motion? Look thro'
those windows, rendered almost
opaque by foul air, look by the glare
of the red lights, and the mystery is
explained.
There you may see an army, but
such an army never crouched be-
meath the lash of the Slave-Driver
in the south. While the Steam En-
CINE growls his uEceasing thunder
here in rooms, filled with an atmos-
phere rs dense and deadly as the
blast Of an Enclosed channel. YOU
may see men women and children
bending down over their labor,
which begins with the sun, and
ceases not when tie night comes on.
But such men, such women, such
children! The women with their
pale faces, REDEEMED by an unheal-
thy glow on either cheek, while their
heavy eyes with swollen lids, look
like the eyes of dead people, reused
from their graves by some unearthly
spell; the men with contracted forms
Shrunken limbs and faces, stamped
by the iron hoofs of Want; the chill
dren, dwarfed, stunted and hollow
eyed, with no smile upon their white
lips, no hope in their laden glance.
This is Factory. This place
crowded by miserable forms, swarm
ing to their labor in rooms rendered
loathsome by foul air, and filled with
floating particles Of cotton, that
seize upon the lungs and bite them
into rottenness, is a Slavc-House.
These men, these women, yes, these
children, are only called so, by
stretch of courtesy. Their real name
which they all bear, written alike in
fearful characters upon the brow of
man and woman and child, is
SLAVE.
In the South, they drive stalwart
negroes to the cotton fields, bid them
labor, but they feed and clothc them
well; nay; in some cases the ebo-
ny-faced African is treated with the
same kindness as the Planters own
child.
In the North, they are too liberal
to our black slaves. They manage
the thing much better. First they
rear an immense structure filled
with enumerable looms, and thun-
dering with the roar of the Steam
Engine. Then they call aloud to
every man who has family to feed
to every woman who has sick |
mother to support, to every child
who is in rags; Come, we say,
come and toll for us.-We are the |
Manufacturers Come, come, we
say, come and toll for us, from day
break until dark, and after dark. |
Every year, from the sweat and
blood which you cXpend in our Fac
tory, we will coin our thousands of
bright round, solid, beautiful dollars.
We do not force You TO work. Oh, !
no. This is free country. But i'll
You 10 not work for us, and work |
for a pittanco, which would not feed |
the Dog which is kcuucl'cd in our
tacta"y-yard, why, God help you. |
TINS IS free country, ahs You must
Starc !"
And then the poor wrctches crowd
to the Factory, and labor till con-
gives them a welcome re-
lease; or until they forsake the cells
of the slave house, for the more
cheerful huunts of the grog-shop, or
the brothcl, and all the while grave
who-abuse the Planters
of the South, as hcathcns, tyrants,
and man-stealcrs-cry hail 10 the
blessed spirit of Manufactures +? And
solemn Senators on the floor of Con-
gress-who thank God they do not
represent slave-statc-swcll the
shout, and brawl at the top of their
Glory to God for the Revo-
luton, but ten thousand Glorics for
the Tariff of AZ.
We do not mean to express an
opinion, either one way or the other,
on this Tariff, or any thing of the
kind. All we desire to do is to bring
a simple question home to your
heart, Mechanic and Laborer. Does
the Manufacturer give you one dol
lar more for your weeks labor, when
the Tariff is called '12, than when il