Was the stimulus of wages substituted?
No! That was expressly denied.
Was the liberty of locomotion granted?
No.

Was the privilege of gaining a personal interest in the soil extended to them?
No.

Were the immunities and rights of citizenship secured to them?
No.

Was the poor favor allowed them of selecting their own business, or of choosing their employer?
Not even this?
Thus far, then, we see nothing of the milder measures of the apprenticeship.

It has indeed opened the prison doors and knocked off the prisoners' chains--but it still keeps them grinding there, as before, and refuses to let them come forth, except occasionally, and then only to be thrust back again.