Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1834-07-24

also ia the colony quite too large a nunnl1ar
Of ehIigrants who have not adopted anv
settled pursuit, but who depend ON Jobs
and day labor for support. These find
little encouragement, as the natives are bet
ter and cheaper Iaborers. Mechanics are
literally paid. The farmers, If we NAV
call them such, in the neighborhood Of
Monrovia 6nd very good business in sup
plying that market. The recaptured Ebos
and Congos who inhabit New Georgia ex-
hibit the best specimens Of agricultural
success, though even there but few acres
from each lot are yet cleared and brought
under tillage.
All tho towns have churches and school
houses. The churches are all supplied
with colored preachers, and are attended,
and the Sabbath observed as well and bet->
ter than in New York.
The sober and industrious, and espe-
cially the religious part Of the Colonists are
contonted and happy. Many Of them ex-
pressed in tho warmest manner, their graft
itude for such q place of refuge, aud de-
clared that nothing would tempt them to
return TO the u. States. They said. thar
let the laws here, be what they might, they
had much rather live in Liberia. On the
contrary, those who are indolent and vi
cions; and those who went out under the
notion that they should be gentlemen and
ladies', and who expected to live in the en-
phatic, freedom which the negroes so many
Df them, think the only freedom worth
having, viz. freedom from work---all such
persons are disappointed, and find fault
With The colony, when in factthe only diff
iculty ism themselves.
The ColoDists are, too many Of them,
ond Of show and style, aud making dash
md living in idleness, in short, Of being
legroes, and almost all are intent on their
'wn pursuits, and attend but liftle to the
of law and order, and the adj
ancement of the public good. There is
reat want of men well educated, mon Of
God habits and public spirit. The colony
ould very well afford TO give two gcfcrs
Or one good citizen.
Spirituons liquors are sold al the shops +
$ freely as in the towns Of. the u. States,
nd produce similar effects on the popula-
on. There are more or less feuds and
barrels among the people, but jones' ill
,stration Of their extent was . little hui
,iliating, for he said, he thought there wero
,ss of such scenes, than among the white
eople here, and this, without having been
witness 10 our spring election.
Both Temple and Jones say, Liberia ID
he place for them, their friends and their
hildren, and that they intend 10 return
,ot far from what man Of sense would
ave expected It 10 be. The expectations
e such man we think would be fully g
mailed. Those who demand that in>the
Of such a colony there should
q nothing wrong, no Encouragement, no
ices. no selfshness. indeed. that liberated
layes should constitute y more perfect
.ommunity than was ever seen on the earth.
md that The enterprise should pc carried
IN with degree Of wisdom and success
ever before known, such persons ike
,ortion Of tho colonists which we have
find abundant cause Of com.
,laint. There is there the selfshness. and
,,i,e too much Of tho decided vice which
iishonors all communities. The colonists
ire much more intent on their own affairs
han on those Of the public. In this they
rave no special superiority over the citi-
ems Of our own happy land. The insti-
utions Of society are never built, nor DO
hey rest, after all our poetry OF patriot
sn. upon any thing better than the neces-
,ity which every man feels Of projecting
and his properiw against lawless de-
probation. In proportion as the number
Of men of property Increase in Liberia,
will the institutions Of law be strengthen
ed. Out Of that very eagerness for mcn-
ev-making, which now characterises so ma
nv of tho colonists, and makes them neg
lect the public, will ultimately grow law
and order, and public spirit. and stabIe,in-
stituiions.
Those who are engaged in raising hue
and cry about evils in Liberia, which We
cannot correct here ut home, display no
great share Of charity or good sense. No
other colony has ever succeeded 50 we'll a.
that: and none but those Of the purltans
ever exhibited more public virtue, or give
better promise Of being the germ Of an
empire. Journal Of Commerce.
From q London paper.
Mrs. Sc0ts.--NO two minds can DO im-
ARMED of more dissimilar elements than
p ., uolsaf and his Wlf0.~--a