r,. D.. o,nre,sed FACTORY Girls.
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A friend of Protection TO American Industry
has furnished US with the following facts, when
exhibi, in striking light the blessings Of the
whig Tariff and The policy OF protecting Amer
can labor:


A young lady named Ellen M'intyre, who Is
snqayed in he Cornwall Factory. nedr Can;er-
bury in this State, told our informant that she
had laid up, during the pas. summer, sb5u: SIe0
from her earnings il the Factory She receives
- per week, and pays ; 25 for board. In the
same establishment she says there are four gorng
ladies, sisters, who by their ea.nings support
themselves and their widowed mother in comfort
and independence Thei- father died several
years ago and left them in most destitute con
di,on, which continued until the Tariff gave q
new impulse to manufacturing, when they were
enabled to obtain steady employment, to place
themselves md their remaining parent IN conf
Portable circumstances and TO restore, by the fruits
Of their honest industry, prosperity to their o''N,n
household aad happiness 10 their cherries hearth


elearn that the }eszrs Townsend, the pro
prietois oi :hs Cornwall Factory, employ some
forty or fifty young ladies in thsir Establishment
all Of whom are in circumstances OF ease ano
prosperity They receive their Pay IN cash.
trade whe;e they Ike, and their work IS not too
severe or the enjoyment OF proper and healthy
recreation ana ;he indulgence of 3 taste Tor STUDY
and social intercourse. The mora! and s'ei1'
condition Of these young ladies' is infinitely PIC
lerebIe to That OF these vino labor foT livelihood
in domestic service and their intellectual acquire
ments are such as give them lively sense OF
the benefits of that system uHder which they arc
enabled to 1--we in comfort and happiness from
the proceeds Of their own industry.


This is but one specimen of hundreds OF slm
lar cases in which the blessings Of the Tariil are
illustrated with equal force. Shall system
which thus enables female industry to obtain lis
fair reward and woman to acquire by the labor
of her own hands independence and competence
be crushed in its infancy, for the qualification o
politicians and demagogues