The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-04
COMMC NIrNTI0N.
CONTEMPLATION.
TIM LiBERIiN GOVERNMENT AND THE
NL1I-E TP tDD

COMMUNICATIONS
ThE LiBERIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE
SLAVE TRIDE.
MrssRs. EpToEs:-I notice in your paper of this
morning an extract from the London Nc,rg, headed
''The Slave Trade in Liberia" referring particular
y to the of the fcgina Cali, of which much
has been said in the public prints the past MONTH
1t is not my purpose to discuss the question of com
plicity of the Libcrian Government with the doings
OF that ship the correctness of the statements of
its officers ON their arrival in France Enough has
been published by the officers of the American Col
onizaton Society including the statements of seve-
raj Liberians now in this country. one of whom is
Judge JAMES, attached to the PRESBYTERIAN Mission.
to satisfy the friends Of Liberia, and we believe all
candid men, that the Liberim Government is en-
tirely free from any connivance at the French an
premiership system, in any form; certainly, until
the accusations come from Il better source than
French Slave Traders. who would most gladly claim
the sanction Of the Lihcrian Government to cover
their netarous acts. But the article in the London
Aers, to which | refer, is more outrageous even
than the statement of the French Slayers, not only
injurious to Liberia, but insulting to the people Of
the South. 1t states that ''the Americans in Liberia
care for the most part emancpatpd slaves sent from
southern plantations for the convenience Of the pro-
prieiors Scared, worn out, helpless slaves" = =
''others, too strong, too able, too restless, to be
'safe residents plantation.' Does not every
body know that all this is false and an outrageous
SANDER upon the noble philanhropists of the South
who have freed whole families and supplied them
with liberal outfits? Again. ''Of the whole num-
"ber, slave and free, sent to Liberia ninety five per
"cent soon disappear in the Colony "a falsehood
more base than the preceding. ''They are sent
cut of deggi"g range and dropped into the huts of
''the natives up the country" Not one emigrant
has been disposed Of since the settlement of the
Colony.
Again: "Does not this open a glimpse as to the
character of the negroes on board the Reginn
''Coli, of whom told that they could not be
''Americans, because they came through the chiefs
''irom up the country; and that as they were not
Americans, they could not read; and again. could
''not be Americans because they were manacled?
"While, on the other hand, the French narrators
''declared that they were Americans and chosen on
''that ground of preference; that two hundred of
them could read and all of them were trained to civ
Citation" The two last statements are entirely
false. As the Regina Ccli obtained her slaves at and
near Gallinas, Banco's old slave mart in the View
country, in which native alphabet was once invent
ed and used by few, possibly some of the slores
"o"ghf might have possessed knowledge of letters
to limited extent but not one of them was ever
''trained to civilization" Ibera has often before
'becn slave market; and certain Liberian officials
"have been highly accomplished in the practical
acknowledge of the slave trade False again. and
wantonly cruel thus to magn a people struggling
for existence in barbarous land where all other
efforts for establishing civilization and christian
ity for two centuries have proved entirely unava-
ing.
The above statements are thus fatty contradicted
not only on the personal responsibility of the wr
ter, but can be disproved by any amount of the
most undoubted testimony; and beg you will give
this an early insertion in your paper.
Colonization Office, Baltic. Sept l., 1853