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on the w est Coast OF Africa, Mt an enor-
nous expense. After ten years trial. it is
confessed that the home necessities of the
African chiefs, and the avaricc Of the slave
trader are moro than match for the vici-
lance of the fleets, and that this mode alone
is proved to be insufficient 1t is a fail
urc.
While such vast sums were expended in
one quarter, let lis now turn to what was
going on in Liberia. The colonsts broke
up successfully the slave establishments
along the coast; made treaties with the
native chiefs providing for the abolition
of the traffic; and now for an extent of
four hundred miles the slave trade is actu-
ally abolished. This has demonstrated the
utility and efficiency Of colonization as a
mode of stopping the outlet of this
trade
The success oc this colony in this work
has been admitted by British agents, who
have been on the Coast Of Africa, in official
communications to the British government.
They state that the only effectual way Of
putting an end to the slave trade is to line
the coast with colonies then substitute u
legitimate traffic will: the natives, and sup
ply them, for what they bring in exchange,
with the articles they purchase with slaves
Such apolicy will tend to revive COM
mcrce which i'll former times proved so
lucrative, and which is still, to Il limited cx
tent, carried on through the caravans that
course the country and even plough through
the terrible Sahara Desert.
1t would seem that the capacity for trade
Of the Ethiopian tribes is almost unlimited
The interior country is computed to con
tain from sixty to ninety millions, and the
whole tribes are set as high as two hun
drcd millions. Every exploration brings
accounts Of the great fertility Of the soil
and heretofore commerce, with the inhabi-
tants on it, has enriched every country that
engaged in it. Egypt, Greece, Rome, and
the Nandals have, in successive ages, en-
riched their people out Of the bowels OF
Africa and now the tremendous energy of
Great Britain is ut work in this great field
1t has attacked Africa, rs it wcre ut every
point. 1t plants colonies at the South and
send i'll exll' ration parties from the North
the universal opinion now is, that the only
eilectual mode Of stopping the slave trade
is 10y colonization and the substitution of
Il legitimate traffic in its place. Let com
mcrcc have fair play and the Slave trade
will cease.
Such results rs We have glanced at as to
Liberia, are beginning to tell on the Euro
pcan world. Recently there appeared in
the Rcruc des Dcun lKondes, in Paris, an
elaborate article on this subject, which
commenced as follows:
"a single effort in favor of The negro
has succeeded; that is, the establishment
of Liberia on the coast of Africa. This
colony composed of slaves, redeemed or
emancipate'l, is now little independent
State which prospcrs, and to which So
ciety really philantlropic conveys annually
a certain number Of negroes. This enter
prise has had two adcvrsares- slave
merchants and the excited aboitionists; but
it has not been discouraged, and the progress
Of Liberia has not been retarded from its
commencement up to the present day"
We might add to this testimony of the
general success of Liberia, much of another
character as to its special agency in putting
down the slave trade. Not long ago
Chambers Journal had All elaborate arli-
Gle on this subject, from Which we take the
following:
The Efforts to put down the African
slave trade by blockade have, it is we'll
known, been signally unsuccessful. Bri-
tain's share in it costs about three quarters
of million per annum; and the money is
spent not merely in vain, but to the in
crease of inhumani,ies meant to be extin-
guisled. Under the powerful temptations
held out by the sugar trade of Brazil, more
slaves are now exported from Africa than
c'er-thc only effect OF the blockade be-
ing to cause the trade to DO conducted un-
der more cruel circumstances than for
merly. While this costly and mischicvous
mockery has been going on, n humble and al
most unnoticed association of emancipated
negroes from the United States has been
doing real 'Oork, by quietly planting itself
along tile African coast, ard causing, wher.
ever it set its foot, the slave trade to dis
appear. Strange to say, it has done this,
not as primary object but MS one only
secondary and incidental to aprocess of
colonization, the prompting causes of which
were of different, and, as some might
think, partly inconsistent nature"
Observation-Disclosures Tillotson
thus sets fortl, the folly Of the great major
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