Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-03-14
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WAsEissrox, MAncH ~, 1916.
GESrIExxS have received circular letter from the
of the Methodist mission in Liberia bearing date a. late
the 18th Of December containing an account Of the cap
tre, by Captain BELL, Of the United States soop Of sr
Yoroscn Of the barque Pons Of Philadelphia thrse days
out from Cabends with nine hundred slaves On board nine
teen Of whom died the day of capture sn the number Of
whom, during fourteen days voyage Monrova was re-
duced to seven hundred and fysx which landed and
received at that port under the protection Of Dr. j.
the United States agent for recapursd Africans
brief letter from DIR. Lugenbeel:
"Mr EDiToR In the midst Of nv arduous and respon-
sible duties cannot find sufficient time to write detailed
account relative to the recapured slaves who committed
to my by the officer in command Of the slaveshp Pons
now lying at anchor in our harbor but will give you
"The 'Pons' captured by Captain Bell Of the United
States ship Yorktown, in latitude about degrees SOUTH
three days out from Cabenda At the time she taken
there about hundred board. On the first
day after her capture nineteen died and by the time she
rived at this place. during passage OF fourteen days. the
number was reduced TO hundred and yr; all of
whom have this day succeeded in landing Several of them
are now IN dying condition, but the majority OF them
fine looking boys, from about twenty years of age.
There only forty seven girls in the company
1T truly delightful witness the demonstrations Of
pleasure which exhibited by these rescued victims Of the
abomnabe traffic when they again pressed the soil of their
native country, and realized for truth that they breath
ing the air Of freedom Their songs of dcversnce
upon the passing breeze, while they simultaneously capped
hands for JOY have already disposed OF nearly three
hundred of them responsible persons the colony ncud
ing hundred which placed in the Of the Rev B.
Benham, Superintendent Of the Methodist Episcopal Mission
to be educated for future usefulness in their native land
al. w. LUGENBEEL,
''United States Agent for Liberated Africans
"DEcEMBKR l6, ls45."
tMr. GYnrrv extracts the
circular touching the proceedings Of the Methodist Mission
which we are obliged to omit to-day for Of He
then proceeds j
We have doubt that Governor Roberts and the agent Of
the United States for recspured Africans and the humanity
Of the citizens of the colony will do what be doae afford
relief food, and shelter this large number Of human beings
suddenly cast upon their but presume the Gov
will Immediately in accordance with its uniform po
icy since the of Congress of 1872 make the
appropriation the subsistence and comfort victims
Of the cruel Of all afcs which squadron
the of Africa suppress and from the grasp of which,
the credit of the country and to that Of the gallant officers
who in this have indicated the honor Of flag these
people, rapidly perishng for the of those most COM
and most necessary Of all blessings Of this life air. food
and water have been rescued by the authority and command
of our laws
This circular states, the authority of officer Of En-
gish brig, that the British squadron has April last cap
tured FOL vessels concerned in the slave trade.
hope these appalling regard the slave trade will
produce f that be possbe) deeper and universal
OF its enormy and that Liberia, home free and Chrs
tan welcoming the unbound had well nigh said the
become and invested with interest," and far msher
efforts be put FORTH both Cor the colonization and the cviza-
ton Of Africa.
want, II. II. GURLEY,