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Ess of the United States, it is presumed that its members, as agents of
the constitution, and guardians of the public liberty, would, without
hesitation, devise means for the restoration of those unhappy victims of
violence and avarice, to their freedom and constitutional personal
rights. The work, both from its nature and magnitude, is impracticable
to individuals, or benevolent societies; besides, it is perfectly a
national business, and claims national interference, equally with the
captivity of our sailors in Algiers." It may indeed be said, in
palliation of the internal slave-trade, that the horrors of the _middle
passage_ are avoided. But still the amount of misery is very great.
Husbands and wives, parents and children, are rudely torn from each
other;--there can be no doubt of this fact: advertisements are very
common, in which a mother and her children are offered either in a lot,
or separately, as may suit the purchaser. In one of these
advertisements, I observed it stated that the youngest child was about a
year old.[H] [Footnote H: In Niles's Register, vol. xxxv, page 4, I find
the following: "Dealing in slaves has become a large business.
Establishments are made at several places in Maryland and Virginia, at
which they are sold like ca