Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-01-21

readers will exclaim This Is Horrible" Yet it is not
the worst for the authority informs us that "hous
auds of needle starving IN London, ana that
such the eagerness Of the to keep the monopoly OF
the labor that has been usually allotted to them that its
immediate effect is to pauperze large number OF wo-
men who are willing work for their bread and to con-
"demn TO perdOn many more who have no choice lett
'but between starvation and vice" Il viii hardly be
credited add the reviewer in reference to the women
who are largely engaged in painting porcelain in the pot
eres ofStaordshre art which peculiarly suits them)
but We can youch for the fact that such is the jealousy
"of the men, that they compel the women TO paint Nth
On rest for 1s hand and the masters are obliged, by
'tber own workmen to sanction this absurd act OF IN
justice"
No one can imagine that the system Of servitude
which prevails in England is ,giugly submitted to by
It's victims They have choose between that and star
walton, and the latter is the readies of subdung
the most savage animals Adding to these two classes oil
servants that Of the char-women who number $4,000
whore lives are as miserable as those of the dairy
maids and maids Of all rank and We have total of up
wards Of half a million Of girls and women who are
subjected in England and Scotland TO the rghtiul exis-
teuce which have ventured to describe exceptn
the words Of Of the respectable and popular OF
the periodicals Of those countries Nor are the other
half million ofthe domestic servants OF Great Britain
much better of than the half million of drudges beneath
them. The same review says that with every adyan-
age Of good health and quality and consequent coun-
uous service and with all the aids OF economy, it's
apparently impossible for domestic servants TO secure
"or their latter days any thing like the comforts they
"bave been accustomed to, from their youth upwards
The cergymen tell how shockingy thankful they OF
en are in the cold aud bitter which closes their
Elves for the bounty which passes through his hands Our
wives saybsy encounter old servants in every almshouse
they visit Too often we find that the most imbecile
old nurse the most iu6rm char-woman the wrecks
nd ruins Of the ROSY cooks and tidy hOusemads of the
last generation This ought not to be. We are not
alone in the wonder have felt all our lives az the er-
-ssIpglg l3g rate at which obtain such benefit as
havirg the business Of life done for US This last SEN
euce u which the italics ours shows how very ben
fca IN pecuuiary point of view, the system OF voun-
ry labor is to the and the whole article, to the
attentive perual Of which would commend the read
r proves how misersby that system Of servitude ope
rates on the servants and in moral and social point OF
view i'm the whole community. 1t presents truthful
though hurried view OF the most painful phase OF mod
eru civilization and one which, in the scale of humanity
sin hold in equpoe its highest blessings Nggardliuess
where be-aty is hes, deserved, harshuess where kind
ues is most justly due cruelty where pity is most touch
ingly invoked injury where assistance Is most sacredly
demanded: these are the horrd exhibitions made all
around Exeter Hail. by turning of doors
wants who had toied for them until they could toll no
longer and the female portion Of them resisted by Or
rnizsd band, Of men, in their efforts TO escape starva
.on and distracedy driven under its pressure to the
stews. the almshouses or the uuatc asylums. These
spectacles are too painful dwell upon, and doubt
less turned away from by the humanarians among whom
they exist who vet console themselves for suerngs they
DO not feel bv reflections on the benefit their purses
from the supply of labor being greater than the demand
for t. Yet 70 truly benevolent minds it must be shock
ing 20 reflect on the misery and degradation of million
of women by whom "he business Of living Is done for
the community and upon the much greater degradation
of those by whom they are subjected to this fate. Only
think of the mnuteness which their prosecutions are
carried Tley shall their wasted wrists while toll
in with the panbrush their bread There is nota
negro on plantation ia North America who is so destitute
Of gaautry and degraded from manhood not to make
point Of honor as well pleasure to let the women
select the ghtest part ofthe work Yet must not be
too hastv IN cxecratag in eondemuiug these male
victims of rogtsrg seryitude They have OF may have
mothers. fathers, wives or children support, and in the
fierce struggles for bread which curse their country the
oue,tou, who shall starye ard he must be excused who
makes any honest effort to save from that fate his pale
checked wife and tic baby at her breast but he is in
sane Who would choose TO involve the aborers Of his
country in a system. the natural and it would seem
from s workings thus far 10 the world the necessa-
~ consequences OF which those horrd results 1t
NAV be said in mitigation Of this Of things that the
million Of domesdcs subjected TO the mseries above des
1cd do not compose more than twenyfith part of the
population Of Great Britain and that it is too much to ex
,ec that the prosperity and pleasure Of the twentyour
parts should be sacrificed in any degree to the benefit of
.bis one But this is only another and more insdious
aud therefore more dangerous form Of the old claim OF
,he strong TO Cypress the weak which has been used
10 Justify an the atrocities of mankind from the gadato
rial exhibitions Of old Rome 20 the burnt Y of heretcs in
che modern city But the truth is that the cilamities
which attach 90 the uumxed system OF voluntary servi
Guide ar, not confined 10 that class which more pro-
p.rv domestic servants but extend more less to all
operatives This fact amply illustrated in the last Octo
beer number of the London Quarterly Review, journal
which rivals the Eiiuburg in popularity and authority,
aud stands side by side with that at the head Of the peri
oiicil literature of the world.
We have not the space TO give these extracts con
duue this subject in the present issue, but will do so in
succeeding number.