Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-11
'oun,ry Is congepIal to their taste, and there

country Is congenIal to their taste, and there
they may thrive, whilst the white man is
,debarred by his natural consultation from
ever intruding TO any extent. They ought
20 take the 2recautiou to forbid the admis
sion OF any white man as citizen
I introduce, also. the following extract
from his FIRST lecture. to show how well adsp-
ted Liberia Is to answer all the purposes for
which Il 10 recommended by the friends of
colonization.
ain Liberia all the business is In the hands
of colo rel men, and some Of them have accu-
mulated fortunes. Their success has encour-
aged others 10 follow their example, and in
dustry Is beginning TO prevail. The great
work OF tropical cultivation by free labor has
been successfully common need by the freemen
Of Liberia. Tropical products have been ex-
ported in small quantities from the colony TO
England. It's coffee was found TO be superb
or 10 that Of all other countries, except Mo-
cha, and about equal to it. The coffee tree,
10 Liberia, produces double tbs quantity, an
nuslly, which that Of the West Indies bears.
It's cotton, a native Of its forests, is Of a SUI
perior quality. It's capacity for producing
sugar has been tested, and found equal to any
other country. Capital and labor only are re.
quired to make Liberia more than rival Lou
isiana, because frosts never touch its crops.
and laboren will not be thrown idle in the
former, from that cause, as they are IN the
latter. Such 10 the nature Of the soil and
climate Of Liberia, and such the easy cultiva-
ton Of the products used for food, that the
labor OF a man, one-third of his time, will
supply him with necessary subsistence, lesv-
ing him the remaining two thirds for mental
improvement, and 10 cultivate articles for ex.
port An industrious man in Liberia must,
therefore, become rich, and able TO indulge
his taste for the elegancies Of life, leading
him to the purchase Of foreign commod, lies
All that is needed in Liberia TO develop its
resources, and to give II the ascen dency ever
all other portions of the tropical world. is cap
ital and labor. The frs, can be abuntdsntly
supplied by England the second by the Uni-
ted States aud Africa"
The above shows that Liberia is even now,
very desirable home Cor the coloted man
and contains elements IT wealth aud power,
that must speedily make OF II a strong aud
powerful nation. The resources only need
development, and the citizens have already
given evidence OF their ability to develop
them. They have also exhibited a capabllity
for self-government, altogether unexpected
even by the warmest friends Of the race.
And this, too, has been accomplished with
but slight degree Of mental cultivation OF
the part Of Its agents. what then may we rea.
sonsbly expect OF them. when they have hat
such advantages from experience and culilva
ton rs has been so long enjoyed by the An
glo.Saxon race1 May they not yet Civ
proof. that their inactive, sluggish minds ar
the result OF the centuries OF physical bond
age, and total want OF mental training, q
which they have been subjected, and not o
any natural inferiority1
INV tttCumrhuCc uon eAtatcus WHICH nh
hitherto beeu looked on with suspicion b
the friends o: freedom. refer TO the fac
that shareholders have wished TO colombo tn
free negroes now among them, with the vIe'
Of rendering more secure the slaves whic
they hold That such would BE- its efFecl
for avery short period, admits Of little donbt
but, should Liberia succeed In the culiIya
ton OF cotton, sugar, coffee, aud other tropi
cal productions, as we have reason to expec
slave labor must soon become unprofitabl'
aud the inducements for continuing SLAYER
be thus removed. For myself, have onl
TO say, that, though | should be glad to sc
colonization urged forward to as speedy
consummation as possible, yet should
; unwilling TO see all other methods OF reno
wing the curse OF slavery giveu up for this.