Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-11-02
LIBERIA.
From the Richmond Enquirer

LIBEEl 4.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Settlements makaae ty the French Coz
eminent an Liberia No time 10 be lost
By The finer can Colouaza'ion .Societyin
securing all the remaining Tracts Of
Territories tetaueen Cape Mount and
Cape Palmas Supplies to be sent 10
the destitute shlpureckea sEmigrants.
The French have actually commenced
settlement in Liberia, at place called
Garraway. lying between Cape Palmas
and one OF our Settlements at Linou.-
This is one Of the Tracts of Territory
which the Directors of the Society had
long intended to purchase, and they have
made appeal after appeal 10 the Ameri-
can Public for funds, with little or no
effect. Believing that their appeals
would be responded to, the Board in
struc:ed the Governo, of Liberia to lose
no opportunity in negotiating with the
native kings for this and other tracts.
It doubtless, will be asked, what is now
to be done? promptly give
the Society sufficient means to purchase
all the remaining tracts Intervening the
settlements. and thereby prevent any
further interruption to the continuous iu-
rlsdction of the Government over the
entire coast embraced within the limits
of Liberia. The emigrauts have not been
concentrated into one settlement. but
they are distributed at fifteen different
points On the rivers and along The coast
for about three hundred miles:-the wis
dom of this plan is more apparent every
year, presenting barrier To the slave
trade, and opening an extensive ane. fer
tile country to Legitimate commerce.
Not less than thirty kings and chiefs,
with native population of about sixty
thousand, have placed themselves under
the general jurisdiction and laws of tie
Commonwealth of Liberia. These are
rapidly assisaulatng with the colonists,
adopting the habits and pursuits Of civ
ilized community, eager for schools and
preachers to be established among them
The Commerce of the Western coast
of Africa. has become so valuable to the
United States. as to arrest tile attention.
of Congress sand the able Report Of Mr..
Kennedy,the Chairman of the Committee
of Commerce, or that subject, ought to
have the consideration OF every class of
American citizens. Virginia has deep
interest in all the operations and results
of African Colonizstion-pa particularly 10
the Commerce, one of the results, Az
extensive market for tobacco has been O.
pened, as also for flour, beef, pork,sa nd
cotton manufactures. In exchange we
receive canwood, coffee, palm oil, ivory.
and gold dust. The cultivated colfeekis
of the richest favor-and so extensively
are the Lyberians engaging in its cultiva-
ton, that we may expect, in few years,
many thousand bags from thence. Our
commerce Oh the coast, is already over
a million Of dollars annually which has
grown up sIace. and in consequence 81
the settlements il Liberia. II the colo
ny IS fostered, as It Ought 10 be by our
our citizens. that trade may, III 90 years
more, be worth fifteen or twenty millions
annually.
But African Colonization presents to
the Christian community considerations
far saore important than those, which
show that money contributed to this
cause is an investment that win Weld
good interest. They see III 1t the bright
slawning Of the day, when the religion OF
Jesus Christ, with its renovaaing and life
giving Spirit, shall he sIiifused among
many millions ofthe degraded and DIES.
titute children Of Africa. A free and
Christian Republic is established on her
shores. with its schools, its churches, and
preachers of the Gospel Va light that
shall rise tisIer and higher, and shine
brighter. until joy and glaslness fills the
heart Of every inhabitant ID that quarter
ofthe earth. Christians, u, you pray for
this? Let your deeds give evidence that
yoll1 sincerely desire il.
The barque Renown, which sailed
from Norfolk, 10 May. with 79emigrants
for Liberia, was wrecked 4: the Cape lie
Verd Islands. the people were saved and
forwarded to Monrovia by the American
Consul; but the provisions for them and
slle goods sent out by the Society, were
all lost. These emergencies demand
immediate action. Supplies must be
sent to the destitute emierrilss, sc. trade