Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-22
Colonization.

DR.. Bacon, editor Of the ''New York Day.
Book, =" and brother 10 the Rev. Leonard Ba-
con Of New Haven, has recently had some
controversy with J. B. Pinney, formerly
Governor OF Liberia, in relation 10 the way
affairs have been managed in the American
settlement in Africa. President Roberts, Of
the newly fedged African Republic, ,ogeth-
er with ]. N. Lewis, the Government Secre-
,ary and others, are now on a visit to this
country, preaching the beauties Of Colonial
ton, and representing Liberia as the colored
man's paradise.
In referring to the period of his residence
there, DR.. Bacon says -
" BY a singular coincidence, 1t SO happens
that exactly nine years ago this afternoon,-
July II, 1S39-the editor Of the Day Book
left the colony Of Liberia for the last time,
after a residence at Monrovia of seven months,
and in other parts of what is called Liberia
Of about a year, in other parts of West Afr.
ca of a little more than a year. He first
landed in Liberia. February 4, 1887, and
consequently the whole period between his
first and last sight Of that very interesting
country, was two years, five months and one
week. AT several lines after ceasing 10 re-
side there lie visited Monrovia, and made
careful observations of The condition of the
people. He was always welcomed by them
with strong expressions Of delight, and of
hopes that he had come hack 10 remain and
resume the medical charge of the colony ;
and after his departure, he was followed to
the shore with loud regrets that he would
not stay, and with earnest entreaties that he
would chanue his determination
Especially was this feeling manifested
when he left the colony nine years ago to-
day, when some of the colonists followed
him through the bushes down TO the very
beach where he took the boat which con-
veyed him 10 the shiT-beseeching him 10
stay and take care Of the III when they were
sick and not leave them TO die, as they feared
they should with the next attack Of the dread
full diseases Of that pestilential climate
Some Of these men added as, many do when
they see any body leaving the colony and
returning 10 America-'Take me with YOU.
| can't live in this miserable place. l shall
die here. o! Doctor take me with you, and
| will be your servant or do anything you
say He never heard more piteous express
ions Of despairing misery, or more heart rend-
ing cries of sorrow than those which min
gled ir the reluctant adieus of those poor ex-
l''S lbiE'bs " aNAHlH W Z aAlN dhh bHO
land Of Slavery.
When he first left the colony and termins-
ted his residence at Monrovia. he did so
simply because his usefulness as Colonial
physician was obstructed and nullifed by
want Of food sufficient TO keep his GONZALES
cent patients from starvation, and even 10
support himself in health and vigor, and also
by the cruel treatment which the sick emf
grants received from the colonists, and by
the nightly robberies pepetlated on their liz
lie stock of necessaries by the ihievish Libe-
rians' He was himself robbed in repeated
instances and his native servants beaten
and abused in the most shameful manner by
the colonists, without possibility of redress,
so that il was difficult TO secure the attend
ance necessary to his business and his sub
s%istance. When sick, he found that his or
ders in regard tn the invalids were counter
manded-and his treatment thwarted by the
negro agenrs Of the Society, in consequence
If which several of his patients died while
he was too much enfeebled by fever to leave
the house TO attend TO them.
In replying 10 a communication Of Pin
ney's, which appeared in a New York paper,
he Tins discourses.
alt should be noticed first, that ]. B. Pin
nPy, (agent Of The colonization society nd-
mits that John N. Lewis. now Secretary Of
the colony Of Liberia. (frst by appointment
from the American Colonization Society, and
afterwards by appointment proceeding from
the reoplp.) tcns Engaged in the Stare trade
in Liberia, in 1887, trns in the employ ofihe
great Spanish slave trader Don Pedro Blan-
co, ,cGs his store keeper at Monrovia-that
his warehouse in Monrovia aUas used as Blan-.
co.'s depot for articles necessary to the slave
trade, that Blanco's factor and agents in the
slave trade boarded at Lewis's dwelling
house in Monrovia, and that many slave YES
sells came TO Monrovia, in that year to supply
themselves from Blanco's depot for the slave
trade. The only corrections which J. B.
Pinney attempts TO make in the Day-Book's
statement are-that Lewis was not at that
time a commitment in the Baptist Church,
and that he did not make aspeech at the
little Colonization meeting in the Taberna-
Gle two or three weeks since.
As to the latter point, the Day-book did
not say that he did, though the reports in
the papers at the time left that impression on
the mind. 1t is Of no consequence whether
he did or net. 1t is enough that he is here
as one of ''the delegation from Liberia" as
Mayor Havemeyer calls them, and that he
Is put forward as one of the chief representa-
tlves of the Colonization cause.
AS TO his church membership, it is enough
TO say that he was a member Of the Baptist
congregation, an attendant on the stated
preaching of the Gospel, a contributor to its
support from money gained in the slave
trade. and a son-in-law of the first pastor of
the church. His general character and de-
pertinent were equal If not superior in NOR
atty and proPrlety TO those of most actual
COMMITMENTS in the Liberian churches, and
1t was not unreasonable to suppose that he
availed himself Of all the ordinances of his
church.
But the public will be impressed with the
Fact that a prominent member Of the Baptist
denomination in Liberia was openly engaged
in the slave trade. was in the employ Of Pc.
dro Blanco in 1897 and that This business