Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-14
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of the abolitiOnists Of the North, has
assumed the position Of an ebony Ar
cadia. The beautiful fiction has been
preserved, that when the feet OF the
poor down trodden slave" touched
that favored land his "clanking fetters"
dropped from his "festering limbs ana
he became a man and a freeman. There
in the land of his nativity where MS
forefather's bones, white at least as
those Of the Anglo Saxon, bleached IN
the sun OF the tropics, the
germ of negro intellect was to grow
and expand and fructify until he should
demonstrate that the Ethiopian was
the equal, if not the superior, of the
Anglo Saxon. There under the infiu-
encc Of good laws and under a demo-
cratic government, the arts ana
sciences were TO flourish, religion was
to be Lonored and from that nucleus
of moral and civil enlightenment an
influence was to 90 forth which should
end in the formation Of one grand re-
public, comprising the entire Continent
Of Africa and bringing to pass the
prophecy Of Scripture Ethiopia shall
stretch out her hands to God" Such
was the splendid dream of the Niger
philanthropists. Such the beautiful
theory which they spread out before
the ewes of a benevolent people and
upon such representations the purse
strings Of a benevolent public, we're
reached. But how nearly have these
bright an~ticipations been realized! At
first the scheme worked to a charm.
The hearts Of the people were opened
and as a matter Of course their purse
strings also Embossed. Funds were
plenty, agents lived sumptuously upon
fat salaries and quite a number OF freed
negroes were dispatched to the model
republic. The government was organ
lied and Roberts a "handsomc niger"
was elected President. With the adj
vice, and counsel and pecunlary aid OF
outsiders, the wheels for a time ran
smoothly but as the working of the
plan created but little excitement and
was capable of making but little pollti-
cal capital, the dlsinterestcd abolition
philanthropists soon withdrew their
aid, and remembered Liberia only, to
throw it in the teeth of those presump-
tuous white men, who claimed intellcc-
tual superiority to the negro. Thus
lett to themselves, the citizens of the
model niger republic, have relapscd
half way back into their native state OF
barbarism. Without ambition and
constltutionally too lazy to work, they
have allowed their Improvements to &c
to ruin and nov to cap the climax.
President Roberts, that paragon Of
niggers, that ebony of Apollo, IS engo-
qei m tie stare trode. The evidence
is an official note from Count Walew-
ski to Lord Malmcsbury stating that
President Roberts, approved SO highly
OF the French free slave plan, that he
bargained to get sl,5G5 as his share
Of the purchase money for 400 head o
free niggers, and %pursuaded the French
captain to carry out his operations
erciast0eiy az tie territories of the Ii.
berion repudiic."
The result Of the Liberia experiment
is but another evidence of the total in.
capacity of the negro-at least without
long preparation-for self government
The British West Indies emancipation
plan, resulted IN the formation OF a gov
ernment without law, order or stability
with a savage, fanatical fool at its head
aud the scheme of the colonization
phllanthropists is likely to end in tho
same way.