The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-14

'Stop the sagine. md you stop the wages, tho
diaaers, tho fees. you stop svery thing"
And then ays ~ author
There ID broodiaS inpany hosrts and sssthiag
in NV bsains ~ terrible yroSisss Of Al.o &
chaaesi Aas ~ masass assks - tortnnss ~ re-
turals sp.esAd riAw a~3 ~es -YwsAssed estates,
.sA5i tie eess. M the pissssvs, as1 The ,ssarers
The pe,spiring Jtorshsads, AID the working hands,
generally close their career poor as ,chem they
commenced IL. In prosperous times such queru-
lous speculatons evaporate in mere empty mus
ings or noisy specifications; but when glut
comes, Tor want of raw material, when no
smoke pours from the tall chmneys, when the
engine is motionless and cold, when there are no
Saturday wages, when the houses are stripped
and the pawnbroker's cellars full, when chill
dren are crying for bread, and groups Of idle men
gather thickly at the corners Of the Streets then
comes the time Of ercifement aud danger"
We need make no other comment upon this
avowed dependence Of social order 10 one coun-
try upon the supply Of raw material to be fur
nished by another, than the italics which we
have employed tn mark the admission.
We pfolong this article BY stating that Man
chester holds "nearly the highest place in the
: melancholy returns ofnational mortality the
average number of yearly deaths in English
towns being one in forty-five; in Manchester
it is one out Of thirty. The appalling fact is
mentioned that nearly one-half the deaths are
those Of children under Ave years of age-an
excess greater by twenty per cent. than the
average of the whole kingdom. U ta
This extraordinary mortality amongst the in
fants is attributed TO an institution" said to be
peculiar IL cotton towns, and far more destruc-
tive than the suttee, and as well worth correc-
tion as opium eating or infanticide in China. 1t
is the system of nursing by laudanum. This
practice is said to be superinduced by the neces-
stiles Of the parents. whoars obliged to labor in
| the mile, whilst their offspring, drugged into
insensibilty lie torpid until they return. As the
| author attributes TO it fourteen thousand deaths
annually above the proportion Of mortality ap-
propriate to this class of population, we give
description Of the custom in another column.
The only propriety in abiding to it in this
connection is to show that whilst so horrible
state of want and vice and slavery exists in
England, fraught with such obvious political
consequences, the friends and subjects of the
English government had better remove these
domestic evils before they interfere with the
institutions of the United States.
Indeed, the relation between the cotton bale,
the crown, and the mitre is more intimate
than many zealots may suppose; and however
odd it may seem, the same law which shall
deprive the widow Jones of the slaves whose
labor has produced a few bales Of cotton for the
support of her children. may send Mrs Vic
toria, with large and increasing family, to
seek in foreign land precarious support on
their own labor or the charity of others.
Stranger things have happened from smaller
causes than those which now connect the gin,
the spindle, and the throne.