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prevailed. But the demand for hands gradually intro 

 duced black sheep into the workshops, and disreputable 

 neighbours into the crowded streets of the employed. 

 It will be so sooner or later in the United States, and 

 sooner in proportion to the rapidity with which the 

 number of mills and work-people is increased. 



The females live in boarding-houses, generally belong 

 ing to the factory in which they are employed. Their 

 rooms and accommodation are very comfortable, costing 

 them 1 dollar and 35 cents (about os. 9d.) a-week, and 

 they are under careful superintendence. The esprit de 

 corps is so strong that, upon the slightest suspicion of 

 impropriety of behaviour, the suspected party must be 

 dismissed, or the mills stop forthwith for want of hands. 

 It is melancholy to think that the very progress of 

 which Massachusetts is so proud, must inevitably bring 

 this fine moral control to an end. 



I have said that masters and workmen have already 

 arrayed themselves on opposite sides in the manufacturing 

 districts ; and there are not wanting abundance of persons 

 to foster distrust and dislike among the working classes. 

 The democrats are jealous of corporations of all persons 

 who, by employing many, or bearing the relation of 

 landlord to many, may exercise, directly or indirectly, 

 what is regarded as an undue influence upon the elections. 

 I was informed by a gentleman high in office in Mas 

 sachusetts, that to the Irish who arrive at Boston one of 

 the first lessons taught is, that the manufacturers in their 

 new country are to the employed what their landlords 

 were to them at home what Britain is to Ireland ! that 

 tyrant and slave are the relations they bear to each other. 

 In consequence, nearly all such importations become 

 additions to the democratic party. 



Then, at the elections, the democratic press does not 

 fail to stigmatise the 10,000 female workers as slaves, 

 and the mill-owners as aristocrats, and to denounce the 



