Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-10-17

4 Mr. Mercer Il COW IL New York loading q
ship With young ladies, whom be proposes to
take 90 Washington Territory. he has already
90, and vshes 70 get 900, when bis cspscities
Tor accommodation win be exhausted, and the
ship sill sail for the Pacific slope. in noticing
this movement, New York newspaper says:
Between 200 and 900 young women have
agreed 10 emigraIe. and are low awaiting the
time Tor The steamship 20 sail About tvo-ihirds
Of them are from MassAchusetts-mainly fIon
Boston and Lonell-and the remainder from
other New England States and New York, With
few from Ohio. Illinois, and other Western
States The passengers include number
OF men-shoe- makers machinists, aud other
nechAnics-and q few families: but The ladies
are 80 greatly in the preponderance that the EN-
terprise may be regarded solely as directly Affect
ing the softer sex"
Somebody skilled in splitting hairs will per-
haps be kind enough to inform Us the exact
moral difference between shipping several hun
dred women from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
selling a hslf-dozen or mere young niggers in
Virginia for the New Orleans market. True.
| there is no fesh and blood embodiment which
drives these young women away. but there Is an
| immaterial. although equally memorable auc-
tioneer, named Necessity. who drsgs them from
their homes and families.
| The tears that have been shed 10 the North
over the sundering Of negro families is sufficient
to furnish perpetual water power, If collected for
| the manufactures OF all Massachusetts, Neces
sity, like brutal slave owner. has seized upsr
several huadred beautiful white girls in the Bay
| Stats, has torn them from their families anC
| will cell them 10 the highest bidders in Wash.
ington Territory, thousands OF miles away. Who
| will weep over this rude violation OF the iamil,
crclel No one. Philanthropy gazcs com
placeutly on the transaction and SAYS nothing
because the matter has nO-yOtes.
But aside from the political aspects of the case
there is no reason why any one should not Wist
these adventurous damsels success. We learr
that fallen women are rigidly excluded, although
We are not informed As to the manner in which
| Mr.. Mercer distinguishes between one who i
"fallen" and one who is not. His recipe for as
certaining such differences in advance, II put into
this market, would End a ready sale
But, as We said, we wish these young womer
success. They will get. what they cannot hay,
| In Massachusetts,, husbands. There Is a large
| surplus OF virginity in bat State, which the meT
cannot attend TO. for the reason, probably. tina
they haveother ends TO care for. They prefer tC
propagate Puritanism rather than themselves
and hence these young women have TO emlgrst'
| IN order TO secure their natural dues. They gC
IN search of what Massachusetts, lacks-msn
and they will probably get them They are righ
in leaving Massachusetts. It's an unmanly, i'm
potent concern No other State would allow ia
young women to 20 abroad in search OF men i
would be serving the euervated male population
OF that State just right il every woman in il
would emgrate la such case the men woulC
be no worse than now, while the women woulC
be better. 40
The masculine population of Washington i {.
be envied. The consignment Of youth snC
beauty being made TO them is A No l. Moth
ing fractured damaged in the least is to be for
warded The Washington man will need NJ
other guarantee OF his intendeds immaculate
ness and purity than the fact that she possessa
passage ticket signed by Mr. Mercer. W,
wish these ladies safe. speedy passage, and ~
the et cetsras which will follow their arrival