Father has had very small pay, but I think he has more now; he is a watchman on the -- -- -- --, that runs from here to -- --.' "Here, says the Southern editor, is a family, one of thousands of families in New England in similar circumstances, where one daughter thinks it a 'very good place' where she can get seventy-five cents a week; another has not earned a half-dollar during the winter, and all are 'very poor;' yet the son and brother goes off and deserts a mother and sisters thus situated,--a mother and sisters who, though poor, have evidently the most affectionate feelings and tender sensibilities,--for the purpose of liberating a class of people, not one of whom knows anything of the want or privation from which his own family is suffering, or who would not look without contempt upon such remuneration as seemed the height of good fortune to the destitute sisters and mother of this abolitionist.

When we bear in mind the intelligence and sensibilities which characterize the wives and daughters of the poorest classes equally with the richest in New England, it is most amazing that men should overlook such misery at their own doors--nay, should forsake their own kith and kin who are suffering under it--the mother who bore them, the sisters who love them with all a sister's tender and solicitous love, and run off to emancipate the fattest, sleekest, most contented and unambitious race under heaven." "This shows," said I, "how God has set one thing over against another, in this world.

You and Mrs.Worth and myself would rather be the poor honest 'watchman,' or earn our 'seventy-five cents a week,' with 'Mattie,' or even, with the loving sister who writes this letter, 'not' have 'earned a half-dollar this winter,' than be the 'sleekest' of well-fed slaves.
"Yet, when we are summing up the evils of slavery in the form of indictments, we must honestly confess that it is no small thing to feed a whole laboring class in one half of a great country with bread enough and to spare." Mrs.North asked if I had ever seen a slave-mart, or if I knew much by observation of the domestic slave-trade.
"Yes," said I, "and it is in connection with this feature of slavery that we at the North are most easily and most painfully affected.

Some of the most agonizing scenes are enacted at these auctions.

They are a part of slavery; so is the domestic slave-trade, which is the necessary removal of the slaves from places where they cannot have employment, to regions where their labor is in demand.