Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-21
sALEM, ONO, FEBRUARY 81, 1859.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meets March 7lh.
Slavery in Liberia.

The African Repository for February, con.
tains several letters from Liberia, denying the
truth Of the repeated statements of Lieutenant
Forbes Of the British Navy. that the I.iaeriuns
arc some of them Shareholders. We publishod
Lieutenant Forbes statement, and now We give
the denial.
Without pretending to decide who is correct
as to the matter Of fact, We will say, that it
would be nothing remarkable if slavery were to
be found among tho ctlonigts. Neither their
intelligence, their moral elevation, or their edu-
cation, would lead us to expect them 20 be proof
against temptation. Certain i, is, that tho same
number of ,ohitc cmigrants, from tho latitude
from which most of them were removed, would
speedily become Shareholders in Africa, as they
had been in America And besides we have it
on the authority of Webster, Clay and other
distinguished examples OF picty, that these sub
jccts Transportation, arc all Missionaries; and
we have hal practical evidence from some of
the hDcsIlcs Of tho American Board, that Mis-
81, .na.ics can become Shareholders as well as
otbc, ION. Why not the Missionaries of tho
American Colonization Society; Men who re-
ceiycd their whtlc educatiGn IN the school of
the patriagchs.
And why not these Li1crianz cngraft shis pa
triarcbal system upon their democracy, rs wen
as the Americans upon theirsi They have gone
to Africa that they may enjoy Bible institu-
tons; and slavery both they aud NC have becn
taught is one--shall they now be prohibitod'
This anxiety on the part of shareholders to
clear Liberia from all taint Of their chosen sys-
tcm, is little singular not to say suspicious.--
Comprising sea and land, as they are doing to
rcighborirg nations with fire and sword, to Sc
cure tho privilege of maintaining slavery here.
and OF propagating it abroad ) and yet guarding
with such jealous wa'chiulness, against its in
PRODUCTION into Liberia. why is thisi Not
that they care for it's existence there But they
would !nveislo the anti-slwery spirit of the
North into tho support OF this hand.m maid of
slavery. 10 effect this, the rcputed prosperity
of their colony and its good char CT or, are very
essential instrumcntalit!es. Especially with
People VINO prefer success, 10 any great .. nouns
of scrupulousncss in the method of attainin,y it.
We heartily rejoice at any, and all tho sue
cess that has attended these colonists We
have no doubt that under anything like favora-
bic circumstances they viii secure success. If
this success is already, all that is represented by
the Colonizationists, We rejoice the more. But
in tho name ofjustiec and humanity wo protest
against the use which colonizationists arc ma
king of this success. Instead Of using il, ms
they should, to exhibit the onormty OF this ma
ton in reducing to, and holding in british is-
norancc men and women. who are capable of
founding and governing empires, and rcgcners.
ting continents; they employ it only as justi-
iication for their abuse aud degradation hero, or
fer their wicked expulsion from their homes
and the land of their birth.