Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-15


evidently useful missionary station of the
American Board of G. i. Il. NJ, from
which point he continued his observations
in the adjacent Libcrian colonists for two
years longer, growing wiser daily in this
matter of improving the condition of the
actual natives of Africa, by this promising
process of dumping among them success
sive loads of the most worthless and often
sivc dregs of American slavery.
Various were the morvels presented to
his inquiring eyes, concerning the practical
enforcement of this scheme Many large
volumes could be filed with his expcricn-
ces; but few would care to read them -
Those who arc interested in the subject
seek only such communications as encour-
age them in their advocacy of the scheme.
The greatlnGjority of the Intelligent portion
of the American people care no more for
these matters than they do abont the con-
dition of the British colony of the Cape of
Good Hope.
| But one fact, which was an cffectual
'stumpcr" to his expectations of an "en-
/ largement of the area of freedom" by this
enterprise of Colonization, was-that these
Liberian colonies would, and did aid and
abct the Spanish slave-traders on that coast
in that traffic in African flesh and blood,
bone and musclc-that they would and did
buy slaves-and that they did assure him
that hemust do as they did--must buy and
hold tho natives as slaves, if he would live
in l"aoe and in the .enjoymelhof e,,ch- on,n-
fort asa residence in that starving commu-
nifty permitted.
uctricd tosupply hisvery limited house
hold with nocdful domestic attendance by
horing native boys of the Kroo tribe, Twho
are never made slaves, paid them, fed and
clothed them better than any body else
would, but to no purpose /; for they Would
run away with now dress, from that mere
love of change which charactcrizcs all such
savage or semi-civilized beings.
A most respectable colonist, IA member
ola Presbyterian church, and son-in-law
of a "colorcd" Presbyterian minister and
missionary, ] on hearinga rehearsal of these
domestic difficulties, said to him, Doctor,
you must do as we do. You must Juy your
servants if you want tokeop them When
first came here, | tried to get along by
hiring, as you arc doing; but, l found it as
ynn say. Treat the hired boys ever so we'll
and the cmoment they have learned little
from you, and got new cloth, they will
run away" In reply to the inquiry, how
and where these commodities were to be
purchased, he said" You can get them
of any of the Mandingo traders who come
here from Boson's, (Boporo,) by paying
forty or fifty bars pounds or morcl of to-
bocco"
lie then proceeded to give very cdify-
ing account of his own experience in this
particular, describing an impressive in
stance of fidelity, and disintcrcsted affection
manifested towards his family by two Cola
slaves bought and held by him. TTwo of
the negroes of the Amistad" were Golas. I
In urging the writer to purchase thus, he
farther said" Buy two, and they will be
EGompany for each other, and will not want
to run away, because they will soon learn
to regard you as they would father, and
will become permanently attached to you"
&c., &c. The writer voided the express
sion of any astonlshmcnG or indignation at
! this rich disclosure for fear of losing it or
further revelation, but he kept all these
things for faturc pa
CLIMATE NOT luE CAUSE OF COIoR.--
1t is common opinion that climate alone
is capable Of ofproducing all the diyersities
of complexion SO remarkable in the human
race. A very few facts may suffice to show
Ithat such cannot he the case. Thus the
negroes of Van Dieman's Land, who aye
amongst the blacklist people on earth, live
i in climat as cold as that of Iceland, while
I the Indo4Ghipcse nations who live in tropi-
cal Asia, are of brown and olive complex
ion Its remarked by Humboldt that the
American tribes of the equinoctiaI regions
/, have no darker skins than the mountaineers
( Eof the temperate zone. So, also, the Pucl-
ches of the Magellauic Plains, beyond the
| 6fty-ffth degree ofsouth latitude, are alb.
I solutely darker than the Abipodes, TOBIAS
and other tribes, who are many degrees
nearer the equator. Again, the Ghalrus,
who live south of the RIO de Ia Plata, are
4 almost black, while the Guaycas, und er the
line, arc among thcfaircst of the American
| tribes. Finally; not to multiply examples,
those nations of the Caucasian race which
have scome inhabitants of the toFfiaa z0ns
in both hemispheres, although their de
scepdants have beenfor centuries, and in
Africa, for many centuries, exposed to The
4 most setiyc influonoes of the climate, have
I never, in asolitary instance, exhibited the
transformation from a Caucasian, to negro
complexion,
Al LADY wentiinto store, in New York
4 city, recently, to purchase a shawl. JUS
,as she was handingythe clerk two fifty dol
lGr bills; she received blow ON the fac,
il from well-dressed person, who exclaimed