The southern press., 1850-10-30

undermines The constitutions. What wears out the
human body is not the greatness Of any exertion,
but lis duration. But the spinner has to move IL
lentIy from one machine to another for twelve or
the muscles never 70 rest n has been calculated
thai the factory girl walks b this way, twenty
miIes day! The system is equally pernicious
for the morals. We always find, first, ilIegitimate
births, and then prostitution, as well as drunken
ness and crime, Increase in great manufacturing
districts. How should it be otherwise, when the
family is broken up, and the factory boarding
house substituted in its place; when children and
girls are separated from their parents at the most
critical periods Of life, crowded in heated work.
rooms with promiscuous herd of strangers, and
lost to all the conservative influences of homer
In what regard is such a condition of labor supe-
ror TO Southern slaseryi Let thefree States begin
within their own borders let them place their
white laborers in as good q condition, moral and
physical, as the negroes, and then they may talk
to us The increasing hosts who live by toll in fac
tories, the paupefs who belong TO the State, and
the still greater number, who drag out wretched
existence in the crowded haunts OF want and vice
in their great. cities, form more than offset to
any thing that can be said of negro slavery. We
have no patience with this meddling philanthropy,
which does not take the beam out Of its own eye,
before il pulls the moat out of its brothers at the
imminent risk Of his eyesight; whose charity IL
all for show, and never grows warm except for OBJ
misery at its own gate, in its own eagerness TO
reform countries it has never seen, and institutions
II cannot understand II is the crying vice Of our
age this desire TO attend TO every body's busi-
ness but our own, to perform any duties but those
that lie Immediately before us. Instead OF making
the most Of our opportunities, we waste our time
in vain wishes that the opportunities were greater.
The great duty is to improve, TO the utnosto our
abilities, the condition in which il has pleased God
to place us, and Herewith TO be content.
But this does not suit the ideas Of our North -
brethren. They must make anew all the works
Of creation. Divine Providence instituted the re.
lafion OF master and slave butt is offensive 70
their finer notions Of justice, and inconsistent with
that cardinal principle, !" that all men are created
equal. - Therefore they pronounce II infamous, Y
and crime against humanity !; and it must be
abolished, either directly, or indirectly Shy pre-
venting its extension, locazing and discouraging
IL" The high civilization that accompanies it,
all its advantages to both parties must be sacri-
fced, and both thrown upon the evils Of a future
that is present in st. Domingo and Jamaica. God
instituted marriage he decreed athat man and
woman should be one flesh, and that man should
be lord over the woman" But our Northern
philanthropists have discovered that this is all
wrong ssthat men were created equal, !" therefore
the women shall vote, as in New Jersey she shall
no longer be one with the man, nor shall he be
her lord. The wise old common law carried out
into practice the Divine institution, and produced
the finest race Of matrons and Of maidens the
world has ever seen but the Northern lawgivers
prefer the law which was the offspring of the cor
ruptions Of heather and imperial Rome; they d.
vide the household into separate interests the do
mestic hearth is no longer common property to
the family. The consequences are what they
were in Rome-what they are in Italy and Ger
many and in France, where the illegitmate births