New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-08
THE coRRECToR CORRECTED.


IN "a. Tdifov Of The ~ " TrtbSne
srp: In your paper Of to-day You give az par
,.~~.,b an article entitled a Correction from IL
Iberia having reference To certain statements made
m vour paper in November last, by Mr.. Augustus
washington. Of Liberia Your correspondent antici
mated at the time Mr. WIS letters were published, the
r,csen reality-an effort and even falsy
he truthful statements contained in those letters. He
fr,tber feared that even Mr. Washington himself
might be induced TO give the same very different
meaning; yet We hoped not.
You will recollect that Mr. w. says: 81 hare met
"ri4 nothing 50 passing strange as the fact that
no one has made kaOrn 10 The american public tie
"snEsrings Of Southern emgraats gfler their arrival
." here am opare nat this can
not be done VithoHt recurring The oensuTe OF some
persons IN this country uho at present occupy high
"cEeiol stations ~ho hare 6ecome 'Hf4Sat'ai an
Commercially ,ceaitly By e0HHlyHg at these faats
and ron THIS haze the faH confidence he agents o.
tie American Colonization Society" The person ad-
dressed in Philadelphia by Roberts is in ell prooab-
lily, one Of soid agents " sHoD mat Jor my pre-
"sumption IN exposing these vroHgs as ne only mans
"of reform must fall under the dispeas1re Of these
"genflemea. mare NE heaTIs an
"sympatkies of the common people rM me-the
masses rho are poor, uhOse letters Of complaint hare
Z" been vRROticed and kept from the public"
Mr.. Editor, your knowledge Of human nature tells
you that situated rs IL MIR. Washlngton-iapie 10
The wealthy appliances Of unpnnciped persons-would
statements OF his given when he had not the full
"conidence of the agents Of the American Colonial
"toD Society" he did not "occupy high official sta
"Gons; he had not become comparatively wealthy
"by connvng at these faults these, if 10 be- are in
HE future-hence his impartial statements What
care for President Roberts's statement He Is one
those who OCCUPY high Official stations" who has
become comparatively wealthy by conn.vlng a.
"theee faults.' What Of Pinney1 He is an inter-
ested, soulees party.
spent some time IN Liberia, at present residing with my
brother at Willamsburgh, l.. J., in conversation
had with me few weeks ago, confirmed nearly every
,sseniol statement contained in the letters Of Wash
ingon, affecting tie mode Of living general distress,
and lnck Of Improvement which everywhere prevails
in Liberia. In tie matter of rawhides and cato
nine-tails" which Roberts STYLES perfect farce, "
Mrs Morse tells me that is TOO true. She says s
hoart-rcnding 10 see little urchns as well az full
grown persons, kick, cuff, and beat indis-
trimnatey the natives, as said by Mr.. Washington in
his letters. How perfectly natural this Is. These
lords Of Africa they but apeing the lords who
taught them thus when thus lorded over by their mas
tiers in America.
lie asio,ishment created in Liberia by the receipt
of Mr. WIS letters wa confined to very limited class
those Occupying high Official stations, doubtless;
no else permitted 10 zee them; this clas WA
asonief Ell OF his temcry in daring 70 publish them.
Speaking of the parade in general, Mr.. Stanhope, a
captain trading there, told me- last summer that he
never left Aflca, but that he was inpOrtuned by num-
ben begging him to bring them from their misery 70
never known anything else but stripes and cruel trent
men, in that America to which they would fly from
this very Gogotla. His account Of the place was
most unfavorabc; he said that il murderous and
depressing.
II is foct Of which your readers may not be aware
that il is at most next to impossible for those going
from this country to Libea ever to return, howsoever
much they may desire TO do So il becomes unto them
fetid prison, pregnant with death; no one of them
can leave without passport which can be obtained
only upon certain conditions favorng conceament aud
joint interest with persons occupying high official
"eiatons." Why will the American Colonization So
ciety persist in IFS deceptive ofiortsl We not
goiag 10 Africal!f The Libenan Government will
be abandoned. 1t cannot exist save by the aid and
reliance upon a society in this country. VIII tins
be sustained No, Liberia will yet be controlled and
governed 10y an European power
Pyordfnee May 2, 1855 GEO T. DOWNING
N. B.-We have further confirmation OF the above
facts in the evidence of Dr. Snowden, who has just
arrived from Africa; he verifes every essential par
fcular Of Mr.. Washington's letters, SO far they
come under his notice. He says that the cato'nine-
tails seems TO be indispensable article of furniture
in the Rcpubic that the walls Of the Liberian halle
are commonly greced herewith. He would nor advise
even Gn oppressed American To dwell therein.