The Liberator

It appears by the Report of the Attorney General to the Legislature, that the whole number of complaints in the Boston Police Court, for a year preceding Jan. 1, 1834, was 1598—in Salem, 218—in Lowell, from April 1, 1833, to Jan. 1, 1834, 66. It thus appears that the number in Boston, in proportion to the population, is as 3 1-2 to 1, compared to those in Lowell, and in Salem, as 2 1-2 to 1. The Lowell Journal adds—These facts prove conclusively that all manufacturing towns need not necessarily equal a Manchester or Birmingham in licentiousness and crime. On the contrary, we believe that there is no class of our citizens more generally correct in their habits and morals, than those who are connected with the manufacturing establishments in New England. They have been early taught lessons in virtue by their parents—and Industry is not the promoter of vice or immorality. And it will be found on examining the Records of the Police Court, that out of the 66 complaints to the Police Court, since the 1st of April last—but few, very few have been against individuals employed in our manufacturing establishments.