Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-18
MAR lahu ColohiLalhoh journal.
-" BALTIMORE, March, 1849.

800 'g''
WEDNESDAY, August 28.-Auended
this morning the examination of the CO..
lonial school at Vaughan. This was
postponed a month in of
the late scarcity of food, which prevent.
cd the children from attending school
punctuolIy. The ~colonists have been
almost as great sufferers as the natives /;
and indeed, have been only enabled to
live by eating the cabbage Obtained from
the palmtree. In the good providence
of God, rice is now again coming in =
The hungry ones receive their daily
bread, and are enabled 10 attend school
MS before. Fifiy-one presented them
selves to-day for examination. In view
Of the. injurious influence of the famine
gust adyerted to, the attainment of the
children were highly credilable. In
looking over these little girls, l could bit
feel, as / ditcGys hare on similar occa-
sions, a grateful jog in riew Of III con.
traSt b"tUeen their present priUiliges anil
0chdt they wOud hare been had not their
parents ~emigraied to This c0untrU.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 28Ih.-The quarter
ly examination Of The schools al this sta.
ton was held. A considerable number
of children are still absent, who were
sent 10 their parents during the preva-
lence Of the late scarcity of food"
Now then with regard to the profess
sions and declarations which have been
made by the leading men who have come
here from that colony, | do not think we
are prepared (at least | for ono am not)
10 give credence TO all that is said in ra.
vor of The colony. ! do not find by read.
ing the constitution Of the colony under
its present form of government, that the
colony is al all Independent oftho Coloni-
cation Society. The colonizalionists have
heretofore professed hat they were doing
u piece OF great charity at least it was
lauded as a very benevolent project
They boastcd Of giving Two, three, or
four acres Of ground 10 any emigrant who
would be sen there. Now | am told by
DR.. Bacon that you can purchase three
or four acres of ground of the natives for
a leaf OF tobacco, and they will sell it
over half a dozen times for The same
price. In fact, you can get cultivated
ground for nothing, and nobody will ask
you any questions, so that the granting
of three or four acres Of ground is not
what it would at first appear 10 us in this
country who do not usually become land.
holders SO easily.
am disposed to doubt the sincerity
of this project, because | find on record
certain things which seem TO tell against
The individuals who now represent that
government.
| am o about 10 read so~methiHy in
relation 10 President Roberts. | do not
wish the audience TO think that an
waging a personal war against the Presi-
dent; not at all. But it is well, | think.
when gentlemen get TO be Presidents, thai
they should bear some sort of reputable
character. The narrative which | am
going 10 read to you is found in a work
entitled Wanderings on the seas and
shores of Africa" written by DIR. ID. F.
Bacon. | shall make no comments uron
the article; il needs noue. will only
remark further hat Dir. Bacon told me
that he could not sit quietly by and see
the charities Of this country devoted TO
the support ofthat colony whose position
was SO misrepresenlad. Instead of be-
ing a medium for outstanding Africa. il
had been a source of immortality. for he
says that the natives are not near so in
temperate as the colonistS themselves
lie therefore felt il a matter of dutv IN
publish those statements which he did.
and in this | think he did righr; he wouId
have been recreant to duty if he had not
lone so. Applause.
"ltw was during my wanderings on The
coast, when had left the COLONY for =
time, that | learned the facts which !
shall now relate. | received them rom
several distinct sources. in the same
terms /; and may add that such is Tho
character Of Two or three of my inform.
ants, that no Commandments, no friend If
the benevolent enterprises Of the age will!
dare impcach them. All these aulhori-
ties corroboraic each other, not only in
the general statement, but in The deiails
About the year 1881 or 1889. when
the Slave Trade was beginning TO renew
lis activity through all the nominal Terri.
tories OF the colony, there was n Snonisb
slave trader named Don. Miguel. VIII
located himself al Pcqueaini Bassa. abou,
thirty miles down The coast from Cane
Montserrado. The Colonists, who found
their W great advantage in the pros.
periIy of tho Slave Trade, cultivated n
friend intercourse with Don Miguel. MS
they did with his worthy ~compairiots Al
Galkhas and other places in their neigh.
borhood. The Don was a gentleman.
and lived like a gentleman, keeping omen
house 10 all his Liberian friends. and
sharing with them and all visitors mos,
Hospitality, the luxuries which mndo his
dreadful trade" and lonely exile bare.
ly Iolerable. 1t became known in mo-.
cess OF time. TO his Liberian friends. iho,
he Epnf "a lnrua ctoal r