Year: 1860

There is a species Of orslaYery in the Eastern
States, which is equally as oppressive as Aori-
can slavery, yet it seems to be much less eXcep-
tionablc to the Republican party. In their
large manufacturing establishments where a
great number Of hands are employed, they have
their overseers who rule over the employees
with as much severity as Sou thern task mast
ers do over African slaves. These white slave S
are treated with less kindness, and the wages
paid them by their employers afford them less
comfortable living than the negro slaves But
with all this the Eastern AbolitioniSts are con
tinually keeping up war against their South
ern brethren for enslaving an inferior race,
while they are enslaying all the poor Of their
own race ....


Were these New England Abolition phan
thropists really honest in their pretcnsons,
they could find ample scope for their beneyo-
lence and charity at home, and cease this ever
lasting slavery agitation, which is so rapidly
weakening the bonds Of the Union. Let them
abolish their own wrongs before they undertake
to meddle with their neighbor's affairs


Below is a aletter written on this subject by
Mr. Hiram G. Cove.


Farmngton N. H., Jan. 1G, 1860.


Eitor of NeW Yo'A Herald:


AsI was reading in the Boston Journal few
days since the printed extracts here inciosed
interested me very much, as they relate to the
Pemberton Mills, OF Lawrence, Massachusetts.
1t so happens that it is not quite one year since
l was employed in them, in charge Of a section
of one of the rooms. was removed from that
berth on the charge of daring to sympathize
with the poor operatives who were then out OF
the mill on a strike for justice and living wages.
But the inclosed resolutions, which the spin
ners, in body passed, without single diSsen.
ting voice, explain their feelings better than l
can at the present time.


The poor slaves were not successful in their
strike The were told if they would not sub
NIT to their present wages and situation, the
owners would stop the whole mill, as they
could not afford to pay any more for their labor
BY this threat the most Of the operatives were
driven to submit; but a few of the most useful
never returned to work, and still remain alive
as witnesses Of the tyranny and abuse Of the
masters placed over them.


| now see it stated in the papers that this
Pemberton corporation has been doing very
successful business the past year, (Whlch IN
cludes the time the poor operatives struck for
living ~ages) having made $l5O,00O for the
owners. The above speaks for ITSELF and need
not to be commented on by me- That the la
Dor cost the owners less than the same amount
of slave labor would at the South, is without
doubt in my mind Your statement that the
northern operatives experienced not the com
monest feelings Of humanity flom their masters
FULLY endorse. And to prove it here, will
relate to you au instance which actually oc-
Cured in the pemberton Mills less than four
months ago.


A woman went to her master, and told him
that she wished to be relieved from WORK, as
she was sick. The master replied, go to your
work; woman can play sick at any time"-
The next morning that woman gave birth to a
child. X


HIRAM G. COVE.