The native American., 1838-12-22

which overflows with The products of the country.
The comforts possessed by the farmers, mechanics,
and merchants, far surpass the opinion that you
would form OF them, unless you couldbe present,
TO be received into houses splendidly furnished
and well provided with all the luxuries that are
usually found in possession of citizens of refined
and populous towns.
The moral and religious state of Society is
very good; this is emphaticay chureh-going
Icommunity. In this town we have a .'moral
friendship society," "union sisters of charity
society,"" 'lemale benevolent society,"" ''mis-
lsionary society,"" fourishing Temperance So.
ciety." and to the above list we have recently
added Liberia Lyceum." The Lyceum is well
attended, and promises to besiow much lasting
good upon the citizens.
From the above facts it is evident that your
cause is good one. and has been blessed and
prospered by Heavens hand; it has found favor in
the sight of God and man; it is fraught with con-
sderalions the most ennobling; it demands from
every we-wisher of the human family his suf-
frage, and appeals directly for assistance to all
Christian believers in the coming millennium.
Will the time not shortly arrive when you can
successfully petition the Congress of the United,
States for an American vessel to be sent here, tia
the slave trade may be eaectualIy broken up alons
needed to protect the Liberia coast trade, and to pu
"a speedy check to the nvasons of the slaver.-
The community here is too young and weak t
put down the evil, and being so for want of suffi
cient aid is obliged to regard with seeming indif
ference the numerous Baltimore clippers and othe
vessels that are frequently seen on our borders
and known to be slave ships. Any indignitie
offered to the SLAYER and his vessels would be re
venged upon our colonial traders, perhaps to thu
total destruction of all the trading schooners which
would at once entirely destroy the trafickng car.
red on by our small craft-cut off the commun-
'caon, by sea, with the seaboard settlements antf
thus stop one of the principal sources Of wealth
TO the colony.
As am not personally engaged in any depart.
nent OF the colonization cause, but only an OBJ
server in part Of its wide field of operations,
permit me to take the liberty of making few sug-
gestions that have occurred to me. AS the socie-
,y's object can only be accomplished by efficient
men, and at a considerable expenditure of means,
it should he careful to send in all cases. emigrants
who can appreciate the privileges and advantages
here offered to them. They should, if possible
for several years to come,) be men Of intelligence
and personal property, and in every instance,
those Of industrious and temperate habits. Ind-
,iduals who will not work at home should not be
sent here to be charge on the Public.
1t is vitality important to the growth of the colo
lies that attention be given to these particulars
Send men of intelligence, industrious men, healthy
and wealthy men, and you need have no fears
about the final success of your undertaking. Ten
persons combining in themselves these qualifca-
lions are worth more to the colony than one hun
dred who scarcely "know their right hand from
the left" Iurge these matters because when they
land here they are their own masters, and if they
lack ambition, they suffer themselves to become
public charge III few months.
Again, the different benevolent societies, whether
colonization, missionary, or educational, all beng
supported by the gratuitous donations of the peo-
pie, should require that all their officers give to
the public, through their several Boards of Mana
gers, an account Of their respective conduct and
'abors while in the employ of their societies -
This, think, would have saluary effect in Sc
veral ways. The agents and officers sent here by
the different societies should be men who would
stamp indelibly upon this embryo nation charac-
ter for temperance and morality and be the fist to
lead it upward to high attainments in the arts, sci
ences, and all thatpertains to advancing the people,
and preparing them for an exalted station among
the nations of the earth.
Since my residence in Africa, my eyes have
been compelled to view things differently to what
they ala III America. Having Deen educated IN
non-slaveholding State, was daily taughtto look
upon the man who held slaves as a monster scarce
iy human, and at all times to regard those engaged
in or holding slaves as participating in crimes of the
deepest dye; and notwithstanding have resided
in one and travelled in several slave States, and
never beheld the shade Of shadow of an attempt
at the crueties said to be praclised daily upon
the slaves, yet it was impossible for me to over
come early preudices, or TO believe any thing else
than that slavery as there practised, the great
est evil in the States, or in the world, which |
noy very much doubt. That slavery, as it exists
in some parts of the universe, is an evil unparal-
eed by any other, is most true; but that it is bur-
dened in the United States with all the crueties
and barbarilies that the race is subject to, is very
far from the fact.
Slavery in the United States, in its worst form,
and under the lash, is not as bad as slavery in
Africa in its mildest form. 1t is well-known
truth that in Western Africa nine-tenths of the
whole population are in state of slavery. The
females are all sold at an early age to be, when
they grow up, wives or beasts Of burden, as their
proprietors may require. IF the majority here
were not slaves, how would they ever get into
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