Freeman's champion., 1858-03-04
From the Wisconsin Free Democrat ]
,sicyA Northern Doughface.

Rev. Henry @, Graham, now of
New Florence, Pa, but formerly Of
this city, has sent us the following
article from the Westmoreland Re-
puJIicda Of that place, edited by one
of the race Of northern services and
asks us to answer it: |
"WmTE GIRLS KNOCKED OFF IN
sCHURoH.-It appears that there is
surplus of female population in New
York metropolis A society was
therefore formed Git requires society
to do anything a.days,) by a gen
tleman Of cheap and Gitfusive benev-
olence, who undertook to facilitate
the emigration of young girls to the
Western States, and provide them in
employment in the homes ofthe farm
ers of these remote regions. In the
ordinary prosecution of this enter
prise, a Mr.. Tracy lately arrived at
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, in charge Of
a party Of these INDECENT females, and
the Independent Of that town thus mar
rates what disposition was made of
those white women - ''.'
GA charge Of ten dollars was
made for each person, the money to
be paid by the employer and to be
deducted from the future earnings of
the young women. The Free Church
was thrown open; the young women
occupying the seats in rows, some Of
them crying-Customers then walked
along the range with perfect GOODNESS,
examining their condition one by one,
and as they found one suitable, they
planked the cash and carried off the
prize H". . '. ID
"Negrophillist Of Worcester this
was not in New Orleans, where you
suppose Mrs. Stoves fctions to bein
course of daily realization, but in free
Wisconsin, which gave majority Of
twelve thousand for the Man Who
Parts His Hair In The Middle and
luxuriates in the enjoyment Of su-
preme court that overruleS the deciS-
ion of the highest Judicial tribanal of
the republicl Just think Of it! The
customers then walked along the range
aOith perfect coolness, examining hesr
condition one By one!' Doubtless they
were curious to know if they had ev-
er been ill-what discase-and were
perhaps inquisitive about their age
The GAINESVILLE Independent does not
inform us what kind OF customers
these girls found, but it is probable
that the brothels Of the towns did
not neglect SO fair an opportunity
What glorious traffic |! The phi
lanthropy' of New York groaning
over the traffic in negroes, and by
way of solace, transporting the inno-
cence and youth of its maidens to be
sold in open market at the rate of ten
dollars per girl Shall we not have,
from the Beechers and Greeleys, new
ansthema at the 'slave-o -oligarchy "
Will not some one--an eX-deacon
would answer-yell out agocd round
curse at the men Of Virginia 7? Do
shrek for freedom, somebody only
mind that it be shrek for freedom
or niger"
There is no such paper as the In
dependent published at GAINESVILLE, and
never has been, and we have never
seen such an account as the above,
given by any Wisconsin paper. The
story, in its details, is undoubtedly
a coinage Of some mischievous brain.
These girls agreed to pay in servi-
ces ten dollars as part Of their passage
money to the West, on condition OF
having employment and homes. 1t
was q voluntary contract by which
they were greatly benefited. They
are taken into service at stipulated
wages, which they are to receive, de-
ducting ten dollars from the amount
of their earnings. The editor who
can see no distinction between the
condition of these girls and slaves sold
at auction, is just fit to be the tool
and lick-spittle Of the South, and to
intimate that these girls became the
inmates of brothels at Janesville.--
We should Judge by his estimate Of
the female sex, that this editor has
once been slave-driver on a South
ern plantation, and was as familiar
with Southern harems, as with North
orn brothels, But possibly he may
be merely ambitious to earn the ap-
pointment Of Postmaster.