The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-14
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, October "a, 1865,
Ne''' England SIavcry-A New Bu-
rcau Wanted.

reau Wanted.
The State Commissioner to inves
tigate the subject Of the employment
and education of children in the fac
tories OF Massachusetts, i'll an address
recently delivered, described the.con-
ilition of affairs III regard to these
young slaves as ''dreadful." He says
''the condition of some o. the opera
tivcs is us bad, if not worse, than for
merly existed among the slaves of the
South Among the evils enume-
rated, were the bad ventilation of the
mills the early age OF the children
placed i'll them, inadequate wages,
their ignorance; and he particularly
urged the necessity Of reducing the
hours OF labor III the factories.
But the point which must strike
every one familiar with the former
system OF Southern slavery, is that
the condition of these wrctched chill
N'Sii II do p''e', IL lloG "OISc, lna0
'hat Of the negroes lately in slavery.
Now, negro chiL1l'e.t never had to
work they frolcllcd and gamboled
about ii tie open air, with old
mamas to take care of them; their
parents. brothers and sisters were at
work on a reasonable task; for this
they We're we'll fed, we'll clad and well
housed;an as to being over worked.
an oversecr Of a Lowell factory would
get rs much work out of one Of those
children IL one day as the sleek and
lazy negro would DO in two or three.
But these infant slave-operatives are
white children, and in Massachusetts
the mean poor whites are Of no &C
count. # they were colored, and the
field Of the Commissioners survey
had been IN the South, what a howl
Sumner, Phillips and their followers
would have raisedl
\ correspondent of one of our ex-
changes thinks that this system of
paonage Will be made next winter a
subject Of Congressional investiga
ton. Not 2 bit of it, This system
IS no new thing, and of course the
radicals will suppress the truth. The
correspondent says that he is cogni-
zant personally of practices that must
put the whole coterie Of mock phi
Ianthropists to the blush, if they have
any shame.
1t would almost seem incredible,
he says, that the men who have cla-
mored to have the Southern negroes.
their women and piccaninnies, torn
from their plantations and deprived
OF the watchful care Of their masters.
have been steadily prosecuting sys-
tenn of servitudc, compared to which,
the worst features Of Southern slave
~, as ascribed to it by it's enemies,
We're kind and charitable.
The system pursued to obtain this
labor is ten times worse than that by
which Southern planters obtained
their laborers. The latter paid for
them us property, and, as property,
the men, women and children 50 pur-
chased We're we'll taken care of. In
the kind. tender and philanthropic
manufacturing towns of New Eng
land, it is different. The principal
manufacturers constantly have agents
iii the large cities, who get possession
OF families, who, by misfortune, have
become reduced. and send them to
their mills, where children of four or
I'VE years Of age are compelled to
work many hours daily, and where,
every day, then parents work twelve
OF fourteen hours. These mock phi
ianthropists have prated about the
slave trade and its horrors, but now,
rs III the days OF that traffic, they
prove the most hardened and inexo-
rable tasl1-masters.
In this condition of things, is there
not another bureau wanted? Millions
are now being expended, and horde
of officials employed, to take care of
and support able-bodied. lazy negro