New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-18
white slavery In the North.


The city Of New York numbers, we believe, con,
siderably over half million Of human beings more
than due proportion of whom females The
great mass of those adult females-say at mode
rate estimate, one hundred housand-are the pnched
up nheritors Of squald poverty and the victims Of
a severe and miserably requited labor. They are
free-they are white-and yet the most toilburdened
class of negresses in these Southern States are not
slavishly the yassas of the white as are those
New York coolies"-the heots to Northern capital
In making such assertions with regard to the North
says Mississippi contemporary we always prefer the
corroboration Of proof derived from themselves In
this instance the New York Times is at hand, with
long essay upon the extortion and insult endured by
the numerous sewing women of that CITY, from which
we make the appended extract, promising that, had
its "unvarnshed truth emanated from Southern
pen it would have been pronounced either hideous
exaggeraton or foul aspersion:
It's a fact proved that the majority of our sewing
women are working for starvation prices, with fair
chance Of being defrauded at that. 1t is rather in
teresting to know how these things are managed
There is system about it-these fellows do every
thing by rule. The shrinking tmidity of women, of
which poets delight to sing, proves their fruitful
source of revenue. A merchant has a quantity of
goods to be made up he tells his sharp clerk to get
them done in the cheapest possible manner. They
advertise, and women needing work, lured by the ad
vertisement apply They are required to leave money
as pledge of their honesty the thing seems fair
enough for they strangers to the advertisers and
besides they glad to get work on any terms, so
they leave their dollar make the garments and
return them to the store. The sharp clerk is an
acute physognomist, and he pays the hands "a most
suggestive term, by the way) according to their Ia
city keeping the pledge of some on the pretence that
the work Is spoiled refusing to pay others; and
only pay those whose faces show that they not
be triied with. In this way the merchant gets his
work done cheaply and afford to under sell his
neghbor, and as matter Of course, the people buy
Of him,
That there is more slavery in New York and the
New England States-in all but the name--is fact
we have long been convinced of. Our own personal
experience and observation as well as that of those
who have taken the pains to investigate for them
Selves confirms and demonstrates this truth North
factory life is infinitely more unhealthy and hard
and oppressive than Southern plantation life. This
has been proved by official reports made to the Legis
lature of Massachusetts,. The poor operatives do
twice as much work as q negro field hand is eyer
called upon to do are deprived of air and exercise
and if blessed with health seldom make more than
enough to keep body and soul together. If taken
sick the odds ten to that they consigned
to the tender merces of some poor house in compari
son with which the accommodations and comforts of
our parish prison-whieh are bad enough in all
scence-are perfect eyseum.
Yet the leaders Of these people have the efrontery
to pirate about the evils of Southern negro slavery
Were they not wholly lost to shame-had not fanat
csm rooted every noble instinct from their bosoms-
they would remedy acknowledged evils at home, be
fore finding fault with their neghbors, and fouly
sanderng them and their domestic institutions.