Maryland free press., 1866-11-22
From the Baltimore Gr:eite-
The New Trade.

.'.r.. Lie NEW 4ENuS. .'s..t'-
F., The very clever and admirable article
which follows is taken, with the above I'll
tie, from the Philadelphia Age It relates
to a subject which cannot be discussed
without pain aud repugnance,s but whica
it would be mawkish to pass WITHOUT ocn'
ment. The statistics Of the country show
direct and remarkable ratio between Pu-
ritanisn and prostitution, Hawthorne
powerful but morbid story of the ''Scatlc'
Letter. which only New England1r
could have written, is not without its bear
ing upon this singular fact; for itliilus-
trates with the vivilnsss Of genius, ths
strange and unnatural religious teaching
and practices upon the moral constitutio"
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," sana wearyiug the
world with the perpetual proclamation o;
their virtue and piety, afford q practical
demonstration of what it all amounts toby
contributing to the stews and brothel'.
North and South, larger proportion of
its inmates than any other section Not
only that, but it is notorious that under. :
sort of Monroe doctrine of their own, they
assert a supremacy in harlotry even in the
West Indies and the "Sister Republics"
of South America The recent tragedy'to
which the Age refers is, therefore, full Of
dark moral, and the able writer below
has painted it with pathos, severity and
truth: '-'..e,E .f .v -ge gnf i4.l
"The organs of Northern loyalty have recent
ly entertained their readers with narratives
more or less in detail Of the frightrnl 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 sympatlse, raada
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 aversge would there have
been If some Of the living load had been thrown
overheard to save the rcst7 Were the profits or
the adventure insured by Yankee or New, York
underwriters? 1t was literally a load ofipfaNy.
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 tho
story. Now, of these poor lwomsniy creatures,
who, in the hour of terror and agony, behaved
bravsly, we have not word to say. In, truth,
there is something touching and picturesque in
the farcwells in New York harbor 10 their COM
panons, in the superstitious fantasies as 10
dreams nd all sorts of omcns, and their assiini-
lation in the course of their voyage TO those who
were purer than themselves and who .perished
with them. Still, 1T was a freight Of pollution,
shipped by the phanthropic, triumphant and
virtuous North, to the degraded, subjugated, uh-
holy South. Now let US suppose fora romest
different course of this sort of trade. That,a
steamer should be dispatched from New Orleans
to New York, or Boston, or Philadelphia, load
ed with quadroons or octoroonsi ieullsd from the
pavements or balls nsasques of the Crescent city
what would be said of it or theuI? ''Sueh Are
the enormties of Southern society,"" = Such sgo
the representative women Of the South" @Suca
are the fruits of that wretched state of sotiet!
which ripened and bore fruit in rsbeliona against
the best goyernment-as latterly, in its honef-
cence, it has proved itself to be--the world has
ever seen." "IIow dare" would the cry. haSa
been from every New England pulpit, echoe,l,
.tso, mildly, from Philadelphia GLOW 'dato
those Southern merchants send 70 us the refuse
or the choice of their stews2'' "Whst' inhmyis
it for Southern ships to carry, and Southern sail
ors to pilot such cargoes of crime" And hal
the vessel, thus freighted, persisted. in somo
northern surge off Sandy Hook or Nantis-
ket, with her PROV turned to New York7or Bos-
ton, and had poor, swretehed Southern strunfets
gone to their last account, would not every ,ako-
li:ion sheet been filled and everyaboltion pulpit
resounded with intectives at the audacity which
such commercial adventure Illustrated? II
seems, in its reality IN awful deyelopemntj joa
the spirit of our times. There is but one thing
which accounts for it or makesit natural. New
Orleans, to which market this shipment was
made, has since 1862. been in the possession qs
New England adventurers. Butler was there
first, and in his celebrated General orders, show
ed his familiarity with the habits of tie pave and
the ''calling which there was Piled" riBanksi
another representative of Massachusetts mpralir
t., succeeded-and every one knows what
reign of low debauchery was inaugurated. John
Covode was there. sitting in the dark shadow'of
the ST. Charles, ,listening to the conversation of
Confederate gentlemen, and watching tho Cow
and refow of shamelessness On the sidewakfr--z
But, after time and the return of what is called
peace, the market, or rather the supply f'tliiS
sort of thing was exhausted. Perhaps, too theFa
was repugnance on the part Of Southernmura-
en-, however degraded, to Northern rassocihieHt
which could not be overcome and henye it lsT
came necessary to have new importation. tits,
not the first export the North and Exist have
made. A few years agoiwe read of acaFgb' on
Yankee women being sent to California md Or
egon and manageable market" Fathers and
mothers without q pang, shipped off their daugh-
tiers, utterly careless of their doom, and res;eis
rRaidens were ready to go and change the DISMAL
oelibacy Of q factory life at home fordthe errIaie
chances abroad. And they did 60, and they ar
rived safely, and are scattered somewhere on tho
fringes Of Tho West. Not So, lalas, nthesei ponri
unfertunates who were sent not from pure hoiEc9
tErt .kayc 49,