Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02

able practice before they become skilful in the dis
eases OF this country. We wish them all success,
and believe the interchange of thought and the
competition for skill will render then, all more eff.
cient Besides, VIC shall have DIR. McGil here, the
recent Governor Of Cape Pulmas, q graduate Of the
medical de artment of Dartmouth, reported to be
the most able physician in Liberia but, as the So
ciety would not pay him what he considered Il fair
compensation, he has given up practice for the
present, and associated himself with his three
brothers, known as the firm Of McGiil Brothers,
oee of the oldest, most wealthy, responsible, and
respectable mercantile houses in Liberia. hope
that these four physicians will agree upon some sys-
tenn Of administering less medicine to their pa
tierts. i think, Tor this climate and its peculiar
diseases, 1t will lie discovered in a few years that
the milder and simpler systems of hydrorathy and
homeopathy viii be more cffectual than the com
mon a'lopathie practice.
| will not harrow Up yeur minds by any accounts
of fearful mortality caused by tho want of medical
atteRtios and the comforts Of life among poor emf
gratis. Suffice it to say, that of two hundred OF
tire epigrauts of the iSspShce (which arrived the
day we did sent p the st. Paul's river, one-third
have died, and our agents, citizens, and physicians
are all in controversy about it, in two party papers
published in this city called The Herald and Sen
Naet. If any colonization papers doubt my state
went, let them only dare publish the letters from
these papers. 1t will all come out. Let them
only state one fact, and comment in future.
have spent one whole day investigating the case Of
tue NlDTHuu D1At WDltH Sulltu lTOln dltlilNI ANON
/, 1851, and arrived at Bassa with one hundred
and ffty-one emigrants, all we'll. (See AT. Repos,
for Dec. 1851, and April, 1852 They were then
supplied with means-xith Il saw-mill and agricul-
tural inn lcments. But where are they now ?
Echo answers, where? Could the grave disgorge
those old gun-boxes into which their frightful
corses were hurried, it would disclose n horrid tale
of the neglect of the physician, agent, or Society I;
or exhibit the murdcrOus work Of sending fresh
emigrants to people new districts of country that
rnaamhla M pl1cp 81 mueb Is (fnlrpthn Road and
understand, that Of these one hundred and ffty one
migrants there are bit nine SurricOrS. Others
maintain thatthere are fourteen. Grant that there
are fourteen survivors. | challenge the Colonial
ton Society and their agents here and in America
to prove that there are more. And all this is the
result of sending men to the most unhealthy pal t
of this country, and packing them into old, rick
ETY., matched houses, in which, the emigrants tell
me, they had to hold umbrellas to keep them from
the pelting rain. Besides, they have but one ply
sic:an for Bassa and Simon, which l think are one
hundred and fifty miles apart, and | have too much
evidence not to believe that ONE of the e%migrants
actually starve and die for want of food and medical
care. But let me speak softly. l well-nigh forgot
that | must buy my goods and provisions in New
York, Boston, and Baltimore for my store, and
after talking SO loudly, | may be troubled to fine
an agent to discount my drafts, and forward goods
in colonization vessels. Besides, | may be perse
cuted by a pack of hungry pork-eaters in Liberia
With the physicians | have done at present. From
bi' " ~ "HN 10 l"i 'N''' ''J -
pect resentment. But if / can only save from The
grave a few poor Southern emigrants, and MAKE
better the chances of long life to my friends from
theNorth, | am willing the Doctor shall pay me
for my boldness in any kind of coin he pleases. II
justice to the Society | may say that this case Of
the Morgan Dix is an extraordinary one. The EN-
igrants of the Isla lie Cuba, in which | came, hav
ing settled at this place, have lost only three o
their number and seem to be doing well and tn,
Banshee, as | have said, which arrived the SAM
day Lost Of ber t,Uo bupiral-spnt only fftaa,
miles up the riyer-one third. Some of m,
friends write me, and inquire how | like the coun
try. may say, on the whole, first-rate, and if
did not, l could return to the States tomorrow
81 200 better off than when | came here six or sey
en- months ago. l have had three pokers in tn
fire, and God has p~rospered me with all, althoug
have been sick at times, as much as three months
wife sick constantly children we'll now | invit
my friends to come to Liberia, but take care t
have some little means to start with. You ca
earn it in America easier than in Africa. Wher
one succeeds with nothing, twenty suffer and di
leaving no mark of their existence. A. w.