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" 'Domestic economy is neglected — domestic comforts 

 are unknown. A meal of the coarsest food is prepared 

 with heedless haste, and devoured with equal precipita- 

 tion. Home has no other relation to him than that of 

 shelter — few pleasures are there — it chiefly presents to 

 him a scene of physical exhaustion, from which he is 

 glad to escape. His house is ill-furnished, uncleanly, 

 often ill-ventilated, perhaps damp ; his food, from want 

 of forethought and domestic economy, is meagre and in- 

 nutricious; he is debilitated and hypochondriacal, and 

 falls the victim of dissipation.' " 



COMPARISON OF SLAVE LABOR AND THE PAUPER LABOR OF 

 EUROPE; ABOLITION OUTRAGES AND FALSEHOODS; THE 

 RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION AND THE HAYTIAN REPUB- 

 LIC, ETC. 



It is not this mutual love and good will and spirit of 

 mutual protection, binding southern masters and slaves 

 together, that keep English freemen in submission to 

 a system inconceivably worse than any system of negro 

 slavery in the United States. It is want, absolute want, 

 and perfect inability to escape from it. That there is no 

 love for employers, is proved by the hostility of opera- 

 tives against them which requires a constant force of 

 police and armed soldiers to ride down the mob whenever 

 they meet to discuss their grievances — by the necessity 

 of the locking, bolting, barring and guarding, every night 

 brings to the property holders in all English manufactur- 

 ing towns, to guard their lives and property from the 

 vengeance of the starving millions of England's slavery- 

 denouncing, free born, poverty-inheriting laborers. 



What a miserable state of insecurity and fear, so dif- 

 ferent from the prevailing practice in slave-ridden Mis- 

 sissippi, where I know, from personal observation, that, 

 instead of the southern people reposing, as I have often 

 heard asserted by visionary abolitionists that they do, 



Chester, 1853) ; also newspaper articles on free trade and national 

 education. Died near Dorking, Surrey, at the age of fifty-seven. 

 Dictionary of National Biography, 30:249-50 (1896). 



