Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-07-13
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
LIBERIA COLONIZATION.

uments. The Message Of Governor ROBE
to the Colonial Legislature is written wi
candor and ability, and gives evidence Of ;
ardent devotion 10 the public welfare and
just estimate of the means by which tn
must be secured. He urges the adoption {
measures for extending the colonial territory
promoting education, restricting the sale c
ardent spirits, and encouraging agriculture
industry and cherishing peace with the nativ,
tribes. We quote z few sentences on the sub
ject of education:
"The subject of common schools, gentle
men, is one that deserves your attention It's
Importance is well known TO YOU, and be-
lieve will have your consideration For, Il
we expect, as have no doubt all of you do,
I that Liberia is destined at some future day to
take stand among the nations of the earth,
we must educate our children; the rising gem
Grafton must be informed, for on them depends
the erection of the fabric the foundation of
which you arc now commencing. A right
education alone can raise man to his true and
proper dignity, and without it we must ever
remain cast out and degraded Our peculiar
situation demands that we too should make d
strong and vigorous effort TO improve our own
minds If we expect to maintain and hand
down to posterity unimpaired the purity of
our republican Institutions. Y GU know, gen.
temen, that in an ignorant community, re-
publicanism will soon degenerate into
wretched democracy Which must end in an
archy. The condition Of our race, too, in
other parts of the world, and especially of the
inhabitants OF this heather country, should
he motives TO rouse us to greater diligence,
hDt Iyon cl,o ~, Il. a..
can race is as susceptible of mental improve
ment as any o.her. AT present there are
schools established in severa, of our towns
and villages; these, however, are under the
patronage end control of various religious in
stltutions in America, and may be discontin-
ued at any moment 1t therefore becomes us
to make an effort TO assist ourselves in this
great work OF Improvement that we may be
prepared Tor. any emergency, We can do
something. Let us put our shoulders to the
wheel, and when we have done all that we
can do, pledge myself there will be no lack
of aid The sympathes OF the benevolent are
every where enlisted in our favor, especially
with regard to this subject: and when it is
known abroad that we appreciate learning,
and are doing all in our power to obtain it
and cannot succeed, then, and not till then,
shall we have the efficient aid of our friends
abroad, and be able to establish permanent
schools for the education Of our youth"
Who is Governor Roberts9 AyounC man
of color, who left Virginia when boy, some
twenty years ago, probably without knowing
his letters. Africa, and the circumstances a.
round him, have made him what he is 10 the
month Of February last Governor ROBERTS,
with his suite, consisting of DR.. DAY Colonial
physician and several of the coonists, visit
Cnlah hmm
up the ST. Paul's river. They were received
by Gando, the principal chief of the SoiaE
tribe, win much ceremony and hospitality.
When the Governor was introduced, Gandc
SAID she had heard my news long time, but
now he saw me, and was glad that had taken
the trouble to come and visit his town and
see his people," He added, "Ths country
be your country, all this people be your coun.
trymen> No fit Merica man. So you be king
for all countrymen. Me be king no more
GU be first king, cause you pass all king for
country side"
King Gando and several of his head men
(among them Balasada, his principal war chief
entered into treaty with the colonial Gov
eminent, by which they stipulate to abandon,
the slave trade--to refer ALI matters of differ
ence between them and the colony, or be-
tween them and other tribes, TO the Governor
'ot oStt!SiASh'--to bdiliSil forever Tie trldl OY
sassy woodland to open free communication.
with the colony. through their country, to in.
terror tribes and TO the colonists Balasads
with his people proposes. to come and settle
wlthin the limits OF the colony
Of the country thus explored Governor
RoBERTs says: 81 have travelled consider
ably in the United States, but have never seer,
any where more beautiful country than the
one we passed through; it is well limbered
and watcred, and the soil, venture to assert,
equal to any in the world"
In the dispatches from the colony we find
the following account of the visit in January
last Of the Prince DE JorNvlLLE
con the 18th January we had visit from,
Prince de Joinville. He spent most of the day
at the Government house. We took walk
through town visited the schools, &c. SC.
found him very communicative talked OF
the encroachments by the English inquired
about the extent Of our territory thought il
reasonable that we should have jurisdiction.
over all the territory between Cape Mount
and Cape Palhas was quite surprised 10 ses
so many people dressed IN European styls
and looking so wel--teuer, he said, than in
any Of tie colonies he had visited to wind
ward seemed to be much pleased with thu
general condition Of things ~ tie colony, and
thought that the Colonization Society had
succeeded 10 admiration, but could not undar.
stand why the United States Goyernben.
would not take the colony under its patronage:
thought commercial interests If nothing else,