 Take the American slave trade, which we are told by the papers is especially prosperous just now as the price of men was never higher, and which is carried on in all of the large towns and cities in one half of this confederacy. This trade is one of the peculiarities of American institutions. In several states, this trade is a chief source of wealth. It is called the internal slave trade, in order to divert it from the horror in which the foreign slave trade is contemplated.