That the New Orleans Editor does not exaggerate in saying that the internal slave-trade puts ‘millions’ into the pockets of the slaveholders in Maryland and Virginia, is very clear from the following statement, made by the editor of the Virginia Times, an influential political paper, published at Wheeling, Virginia.  Of the exact date of the paper we are not quite certain, it was, however, sometime in 1836, probably near the middle of the year—­the file will show.  The editor says:—­

“We have heard intelligent men estimate the number of slaves exported from Virginia within the last twelve months, at 120,000—­each slave averaging at least $600, making an aggregate at $72,000,000.  Of the number of slaves exported, not more than one-third have been sold, (the others having been carried by their owners, who have removed,) which would leave in the state the SUM OF $24,000,000 ARISING FROM THE SALE OF SLAVES.”

According to this estimate about FORTY THOUSAND SLAVES WERE SOLD OUT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN A SINGLE YEAR, and the ‘slave-breeders’ who hold them, put into their pockets TWENTY-FOUR MILLION OF DOLLARS, the price of the ‘souls of men.’

The New York Journal of Commerce of Oct. 12, 1835, contained a letter from a Virginian, whom the editor calls ’a very good and sensible man,’ asserting that TWENTY THOUSAND SLAVES had been driven to the south from Virginia during that year, nearly one-fourth of which was then remaining.

The Maryville (Tenn.) Intelligencer, some time in the early part of 1836, (we have not the date,) says, in an article reviewing a communication of Rev. J.W.  Douglass, of Fayetteville, North Carolina:  “Sixty thousand slaves passed through a little western town for the southern market, during the year 1835.”

The Natchez (Miss.) Courier, says “that the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas, imported TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND SLAVES from the more northern slave states in the year 1836.”

The Baltimore American gives the following from a Mississippi paper, of 1837: 

“The report made by the committee of the citizens Of Mobile, appointed at their meeting held on the 1st instant, on the subject of the existing pecuniary pressure, states, among other things:  that so large has been the return of slave labor, that purchases by Alabama of that species of property from other states since 1833, have amounted to about TEN MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY.”

FURTHER the inhumanity of a slaveholding ‘public opinion’ toward slaves, follows legitimately from the downright ruffianism of the slaveholding spirit in the ‘highest class of society,’ When roused, it tramples upon all the proprieties and courtesies, and even common decencies of life, and is held in check by none of those considerations of time, and place, and relations of station, character, law, and national honor, which are usually sufficient,