For the Advocate
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MIR. EDITOR It has been thought by ,nonv tb.. there are among the manufacturing population considerable portion of the children, growirr m with little or no education, except such knowlodoo as would enable them to perform their daily task Hence they have concluded that on the whole on. manufactures would prove damage to the comr, Knowing these facts can assure you. that wac somewhat smpriseddurIng the extra Session of tbo Legislature to hear prominent member,who res;do, in the vicinity of several large establishments SC ser, that the children working in the factores voro as we'll educated as any other class of children in the country-that they were contented happv and were as moral, and had as good religious instmc- ton as any others and in his opinion, thelr condition was better than the generality of the people in tbp State; or words nearly to the same effect donot pretend to give the words, verbatim but epdesvor not to mlsrepresent the meaning

 If such is the fact it will give me much satssc-

 ton to have it confirmed through the medium Of tho Advocate. Will you, or some of you're cor?espon. dents give the public true statement of facts coo. corning this matter? Justice demands that ho truth should be known, and if the common opinion IS unfounded, the error ought to be corrected, L. We think 1t does not require much argument to con. vince such of our readers who are at all acouajncd with the condition of the younger portion of the fac tory population of New England, of the falsy of the assertion referred to above by our correspondent t

 bad enough to hear such assertions from those whos

 interest it is to make the public believe there are no lust grounds of complaint against present factory sys

 en-still more dnplcrabe is it that that system should find apoogists and supporters among those in author

 y whose duty it unquestionably is to plead the cause and assert the rights of the oppressed among all cas scs.

 On casting our eye over the above comnu.lication we were forciby struck by the similarity of language used by this ''promincnt member, concerning the factory children of tie north, to that sometimes urged by the advocates of $'crery at the south These chI dren contcntcd and happy, says this sage lcgis lator 9Th. slaves at e south are not so bad off az people imagine, says another They are contcnr- ed and happy.' Well, does it follow that we have right to niict injuries our fellow beings. and keep them in ignorance and degradation because torsooh they manifest no particular symptoms of dissaistac ton with their lot? Some one has said :fgnorance is bliss ts folly to be wise The prominent mem Der in question. evidently goes upon the ground thai ignorance iS bliss. This being the case it is no strange that lie should consider factory operatives " contented and happy. ED. ADVOCATE.