New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-28

There Is Published at Lowell Mass, small paper
called the Spindle City Idea. We take from il the
two following extracts, which verify Senator Ham
nond's reply to Wilson, 'your people are awaking.'
Oppression IPhiie Slauerg.-We end the follow
ing communication from Salem in the Boston Herald
Of Monday last. Friends Of liberty read :
:, Al lhe weavers etc, Of the Naamkeag mills. in
this city left in body the forenoon Of the cath
Inst notice was posted. stating the wages would
9e reduced II per cent per month. Thi9 the opera
tives considered oppressive, and turned out
About three hundred women assembled In an open
Held, aud resolved to remain away rather than work
on such terms.
1t is only short time since the directors declared
a dividend Of per cent. Il is well known that the
Company could afford TO advance the wages instead
OF reducing them and what makes the affair more
like combined oppression is the fact that none of the
newspapers here will state the grievances of the
operatives. They can be eloquent ON Southern
slavery but here three hundred hard working
Industrious women. calling at their Offices to request
of them to proclaim the sysematized slavery that
grnds them inst at the doors OF those antislavery
sheets and they have not one word of consolation for
the Northern slaves.
Independence Massachusetts, is often mentioned
as being the "cradle Of liberty but there is no
country or State upon the face Of the EARTH where
there is so much silent tyranny through public opin-
ion. or by the power OF wealth. Neither Is there a
State in the Union where there is such quiet sub
mission TO any oppression, through slaysh fear or
want OF moral courage. And furthermore we do not
beese tnat there Is a State whose press is nearly
given over to the power Of Satan as that of ours We
may speak of the vigilant eye kept BY Louis Napo-
leon over his press, but there is nothing so horrid
about it. as that paper shall sell itself, body aud
soul. to some clique or party, and dare not speak
against the behests OF It's buyer This we believe to
be the condition Of the major part Of our papers to-
day hence they are tame, inohensve, cowardly-
they are not independent. This is the principal
reason why our laborers oppressed. II we had
free, outspoken press like that of Ohio New York
or Wisconsin, our aborers could assert their rights
What shameful and burning commentary upon
the social and operative condition of State, the
Legislature of which recently removed an able, up
right and learned Judge, simply because he enforced
the fugitive slave law some years SINCE and thereby
met the requirements Of his solemn oath of Office |
The laws of the land. the Constitution of the country
right and Justice, are nothing to them or their con-
sciences when the slavery question is in controversy
or the legal rights of shareholders are involved yet
they deliberately grind to the uttermost extent their
oppressed white laborers, turn deaf ear to their
petitions, and according to the above the wealth and
power OF the pliiahtiopc monopolists is such that
the press is in effect mnzzed, and few dare speak
boldly in favor of the downtrodden worked to death
and wellngh destitute white, toiling men, women and
children, who exc out sretched subsistence in their
gigantic factories.