Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-22

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aryIcolony,to take advantage, thus cruel4t
ly, of the necessities and sdistresses, of its
unofending neighbors2 To enforce 'tthe
pound of flesh with more than, Shy-
lock pertinacity2 To demand impossible
tiles, and then make the noncompliance
with that demand the occasion for Selling
upon coveted territory? Alas, for the
plundered and wretched Dey. On one
hand the white slave-dealer turks in am
bush for him, and on the other, the colored
American colonist EFFORTS from him the
little which the Gorah and the KonGah
has spared. And this is the way in which
Africa is to be civilized. When secretary
Gurley next dreams of the colony, he
may see steeples starting up through the
palm groves of the DEFY country, and hear
the songs of Christianity, swelling over
the estuary of St. Paul's. But, where
will be the natiyes2 Where the mild
spirited, and "inofensive'' Deys2 Gone,
extermina:ed, the place that knew them,
| knowing them no more, forever.
We have not made these comments
because we perceived, in the conduct of
the Colonists, anything extraordinary, or
which might not have been Justly expected
from the circumstances of the case. The
truth is, Liberia is not missionary colo.
ny. Its inhabitants are striving to obtain
a livelihood, by traffic and land-specula-
ton. Their "paIavers'' with the natives
have more to do with "gumbo pipes,
beads, rum, and tobacco" than with BIZ
bles, tracts and gospel matters. They
are just such missionaries" to the heather
of Africa, as our fur-traders and rum
traffickers are to the Indians of the West
and North West. The idea of evangel-
izing. the natives by means of CONNER
cial colony is utter delusion. All history
shows its absurdity. Where are the ma
tives of our own country, for whose con-
version the original coIonists protested the
most ardent zeal! What has been the
result OF East India colonization but un-
holy oppression, and support of heathen-
ism by the arms of Great Britain where
ever it could be made to contribute to the
sordid Gvarice of the souliess East India
Company Where are the aborigines of
the West Indies-the noble race, who,
from the palmy shores of their beautiful
islands, welcomed Columbus to the New
World2 They have persisted before the
footsteps of the white man, the curse of
Christian aVarice has annihilated them.
Look where We may, to Asia, Africa, or
America, not a solitary instance can be
found of civilized commercial colony
which has been beneficial to the surround
ing natives, nay, which has not been in its
influence upon them "evil and only evil"
We have been examining a mass OF
facts, ordered to be printed in 1885 by the
British House of Commons, under the
title OF Papers relative 10 the Cape OF
Good Hope" which painfully illustrates
the sentiment above expressed in regard
to the influence of commercial colonies
upon the natives by whom they are sur.
= roundad--ln-LSEo-N L. n>;L~-l.- A. g.
!, Governor of the Colony "enjoined abooe
all things upon the colonists caution and
; forbearance in their dealings with the
{ native" The Dutch Doors, however
, soon entered into catt1e-tradc with the
Hottentots, which is thus spoken of by
, M. Borch in the Parliament papers
f 1.-The free trade in cattle was entirely
t misapplied. The farmers instead of trad
: ing, proceeded, in bodies of eighty OF
, ninety, beyond the boundaries, and being
: armed, forced the natives, land even muir
r dered them in some instances to give uF
y. their cattle, and afterwards divided the
2 plunder'
r Tract after tract of the Hottentot coun
}try was obtained possession of-sometimes
by force and often by fraud. In little more
t than a century a District of country ter
T. times the extent of Holland, was in the
: hands of the coioniSts. And how was i
D with the poor natives-the pIundered anC
Y hunted Hottentots2 They persisted from
r, the face of the earth. A sorry remnant
= it may be five thousand in number, owe
s their existence to tho holy efforts of the
f Moravian missionaries. Some thousands
f more anna gamated with the colonists-a
e mixed breed, and Hottentots by caste only
: are left on the vast extent of territory
t which was once peopIed with tuoo hundred
: thousand of the original inhabitants. Blu
! the Hottentots have not suffered alone
: The spirit of colonial aggression has
: overstepped the Hottentot boundary anc
3 seized upon the streams and meadows O
the Cafres, despoiled them of their herds
r and murdered them by thousands, in the
f bloody commanders or military exped
t lions for the ostensible purpose of reeov
y ering stolen cattle, but in reality for the
e robbery OF the natives. In vain has the
: British Government demonstrated, and hel
{ colonial officers interposed their authority
= The avarice, and robber enterprise Of the
l frontier settlers, have triumphed over her
}, humane policy; and the time seems moi
/ far distant, when the Caffre and the Hot
, tentot shall be known no more,-and the