Maryland free press., 1866-11-22
Froa, the Baltimore Gr;ette.
The New Trade.

s....I The New Trade. .-,.rr-
rs The very clever aud admirable article
which follows is taken, with the above til
tie, from the Philadelphia, Age. 1t relates
to subject which cannot be discusse,i
without pain aud repugnance,- but whicA
it would be mawkish to pass without ocni
ment. The statistics Of the country show
direct and remarkable ratio between Pu-
ritanism and prostitution, Hawthorne
powerful but morbid story of the 'Scarlco
Letter. which only New England1r
could have written, is not without its bear
ing upon this singular fact; for itiilus-
trates with the vivilnsss of genius, ths
strange and unnatural religious teaching
and practices upon the moral constitution
and the physical temperament. Thus it
is that the New England States, while eru
cifying the rest of the land by the enforce
ment of their "ideas," ianl wearyiug the
world with the perpetual .proclamation o.
their virtue and piety, afford q practical
dblOu VI Whae ~ GA dihouueS o'-pJ
contributing to the stews and brothels,
North and South. larger proportion of
its inmates than any other section Not
only that, but it is notorions that under. :
sort of Monroe doctrine of their. own, they
assert supremacy in harlotry even in the
West Indies and the "Sister Republics"
of South America The recent tragcdyito
which the Age refers is, therefore, full'o Of
dark moral, and the able writer below
has painted it with pathos, severity .anf
truth: ,-', r.r goo 'v -ea YGf lpl.l
''The organs Of Northern loyalty have recent
~ entertained their readers with narratives
more or less in detail of the frightlnl shipwreck
! of the Evening Star. 1t was truly narrowing
tale, but there was one comment on it which
none of them, in their haste to sympatse, Inado
What was the chief freight which this Northern.
ship was carrying to the South What the car
60 which New York was sending to New Or.
leans? What sort Of average would there have
been If some Of the living load had been thrown
overheard to save the rcstl Were the profits or
the adventure insured by Yankee or New York
underwriters? 1t was literally a load ofiptaRy.
A notorious bawd, with forty or fifty prostitutes,
was on board the wretched ship. :and they per-
| ished together This is the plain English of tha
story. Now, of these poor lwomsniy creatures
who, in the hour of terror and agony, behaved
bravely, we have not word to say In, truth,
there is something touching and picturesque in
the farcwells in New York harbor TO their COM
panions, in the superstitioas fantasies asto
dreams md all sorts of omcns, and their assiini-
lation in the course of their voyage 10 those who
were purer than themselves and who persisted
with them. Still,..i was freight Of pollution,
shipped by the phlanthropic, triumphant and
virtuous North, to the degraded, suhjugatei, ua-
holy South. Now, let US suppose fora roaeAt
different course of this sort of trade. Thata
steamer should be dispatched from Now Orleans
to New York, or Boston; or Philadelphia, load
ediwith quadroons or octoroons eullsd from the
pavements or balls mosques of the Crescent city
what would be said of it or thcnI? ''Sueh are
the enormties of Southern society,"" = Such arc
the representative women of the South" "Suca
are the fruits of that wretched state of sotict'
which ripened and bore fruit in rsbellionag geipst
the best goyernment--as latterly, in its honeh-
cence, it has proved itself to be-the world has
ever seem" 'sHow dare" would the cry haye
been from every New England pulpit, echoei,
t,o, mildly, from Philadelphia, t'Ilow DAFT
those Southern merchants send TO us the refuse
or the choice of their stews2'' "What. inamyis
it for Southern ships to carry, and Southern saii
ors to pilot, such cargocs of crime" And hal
the vessel thus freighted persisted in somo
northern surge off Sandy Hook or NantNs
ket, with her PROV turned to New York'or Bo&-
ton, and had poor, wretched Sonthcrn strumbets
gone to their last account would not every ako-
lion sheet been filled and everyabolition pulpit
resoundcd with intectives at the audacity which
such commercial adventure illustrated? IT
seems, in its reality IN awful deyelopement Iof
the spirit of our times. There is but one thing
which accounts for it OF Inakesi natural. New
Orleans, 10 which market this shipment was
made, has since 1862. been In the possession q!
New England adventurers. Butler was there
first, andin his celebrated General orders, show
ed his familiarity with the habits oftLe pave aud
the ''calling which there was Piled" Banks
another representative of Massachusetts mpralir
ty, succeeded-and every one knows what
reign of low debauchery was inaugurated. John
Covode was there. sitting In the dark shadow or
the ST. Charles, ,listening to the conversation of
Confederate gentlemen, and watching tho Cow
and reAow of shamelessness on the .sidewaikfr-y
But after time and the return of what is called
peace, the market, or rather the supply ofthis
sort of thing was exhausted. Perhaps, tee; o;itheta
was repugnance on the part of Southerumma-
en-, however degraded, to Northern rassocciRiteat
which could not be overcome-andi henye it bbeeir
came necessary to have a new importation. It's,
not the first export the North and Exist Rave
made. A few years agowe read of aeaigb. o.
Yankee women being sent to California and Or
egon and marrisgeable market" Fathers and
mothers without rang, shipped off their dauGh-
tiers, utterly careless Of their DOOM and res,le4s
maidens were ready to go and change the di5ihal
eelibacy of factory life at home fordthe erraiie
chances abroad. And they did 20, and they arr
rived safely, and are scattered somewhere on no
i fringes of the est. Not SO, ALAS, nthese poori
unfertunates who were sent, not from pnrs hoiEe3