But there was no real distinction between slavers plying from one American port to another and those which crossed the ocean for the same purpose.

There was no essential difference between slaves raised for the market in Virginia--whence they were exported and sold--and those kidnapped for the same object on the Guinea coast.

The physical suffering of a land journey might be less than that of a long sea-voyage, but the anguish of separation between mother and child was the same in all cases.

The chains which clanked on the limbs of the wretched creatures, driven from the auction block along the road which passed beneath the national capitol, and the fetters of the captured fugitive were no softer or lighter than those forged for the cargo of the slave-ships.

Yet the man who so magnificently denounced the one in 1820, found no cause to repeat the denunciation in 1850, when only domestic traffic was in question.