Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-11
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
From the Emancipator.

FROM LlBER1A.-We give the follow
ing for what it is worth.-lt was issued
as handful on the night of the "grear'
colonization meeting, week before last
The Colonization Herald, Of PhiIadel-
phia, calls for the name of the writer. and
abuses him in style which confirms our
belief that his main statements are true.
We still continue responsible for the truth
of the Introductory and concluding re-
marks. The writer of the letter is what
we have stated him to be. When he
returns to this country, we shalt expect
him to sustain his representations by proofs
which will overwhelm with confusion the
venal tools and superficial parasites who
are trying to gull the people Of this land
to rescue their concern from the utter
bankruptcy under which it is about 10
sink into oblivion. Let some of these men
beware! There are such things as in
dictments for obtaining money under false
pretences!
I News from Liberia.
Extracts of letter from one of the
most scientific and intelligent white men
that ever went 10 Liberia-extensively
known as an active and devoted Colonial
tionist-and man Of unquestionable in
tegrity, and Of most respectable connec-
tons in this country. He was led to At
RIGA through his Zeal for the Colonization
cause, to which he has been devoted for
years. He is still in that country, con-
corning which he now tells THE TRUTH.
MoNRovIA, Aug. "a, 1887.
} you have yet to learn, that the prciu-
dices of color work backwards here, among
those who have suffered under them in
America. You may have felt disgust, or
contempt or pity, for the degraded negroes
, around you in America; but here is hatred
the most malignant. fear and envy, con-
SANITY resting against he white race and
I straight hair of the Caucasian race. And
it is only the influence of the second feel
? ing, which occasionally res:rains the out
breaks of the first and third. Among the
: natives indeed: those feelings have no
existence.
, Distress, anguish and want, form com.
mon scenes here, the more deplorabIe and
hopeless, because the suffering is all due
to the viciousness and laziness of the sui
, ferers.
Our commercial news is now an old
: story. While your folks have been fall
ing from opulence to poverty, ours have
only been filling from one depth of suf
fering and scoundretism to another. "
a May 12,h, 1888.
S "In my former letter, gave you few
e leading hints of some Of the practica
+ difficulties connected with the deyelope
h ment of the Colonization scheme, whicI
!, | perceive have given occasion for fire,
b expression of some of your sentiments o,
: the subject. Though see and feel rea
= son to differ with you on several of YOU
! premises, | can heartily accord with vo,
If in he decisive condemnation of Colon;za
> ton; not only as concerns the relief an,
e improvement of the colonists themselves
l. but also in Its influence on the conditio,
y Of the natives ofthe country. In its prac
G teal operation, it has thus far been 4 r,
e newal of the worst scenes of eopoues
e oppression and determination, presente
), in the history of the dealings of viii,
j. men with the aborigines Of the Souther
- States. And even worse things than thes
l. are already hoped and planned by III
N british refugees from oppression, who,
VI we are sending to execute schemes /,
conquests on the, unofsnding natives ,
y this coast The circumstance Of the Nv
n parties being Of one color and one rae,