Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-21
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The Londcn Daily NetcS charges that the ne
Stues seized On board the French ship LegiHt
CtClt lcere from Ltberiu, and we're sold by HE Iii
uerlin GUverpmcnt to these French traders. W
cannot credit this story. 1t seems impossibl,
that 1t can Se tree, but the NewS stands by It's as
%sertiun, and goes on to mako the following com
meuts
IAN parties consider il \ ~puzsling TRANSACTION
altogether, aud the more because the French mar
rat0rs ex patiate on the great advantage il will he
To obtain their negroes from Liberia, above other
places, because they have brought with them front
America many Of the ideas and habits OF hiviliza
ton in which they we're there brought up. These
negroes-natire Americans, deported to Africa
against their will, or in helpless ignurance-are
the persons who can probably best ~explain what
ever mystery hangs about the seizure Of the Regi
m Coli, and the conduct of Liberia authorities.
The so called Republic, with its free and enlight.
ened negroes, 50 fit, from their superiority, 10
bless the French colonies, is the depot TO which
American planters consign slaves whom they DO
not know what otherwise to do with. We have
shown before, and are prepared to show again, in
the words Of American planters themselves. that
the first object in establishing the so.called Re.
public was to relieve themselves from a species of
population pregnant with future danger and pres.
ent incon veniences'-that is, the free blacks"
A correspondent of the same journal is more
explicit, and speaks ia the following manner of
the transaction
81 have read with much satisfaction your article
Of Tuesday, on the case Of the French slave ship
at Monruvia, and tho participation of the 'Liberi.
an Republic as it facetiOusly calls itself, in the
supply Of the slaves. From the French account
of the transaction, it is clear the cargo Of slaves
was supplied from within the Liberian Territory
the boosted sanctuary of negro liberty. The
French dispatch names the sum paid by the cap
tain Of the Regina Coli to the Liberian Govern
ment, under the name of passport moneJ, a new
name for head money; and u more palpable
slave trade bargain it is impossible to imagine,
bUth on the part Of buyer or seller. Having had
the opportunity of hearing a good deal Of what
has long been going on at this boosted asylum Of
negro freedom, l am not much surprised at the
shed upon lis real character by this startling
transaction. Being IN constant communication
with the coast Of Africa, | have heard much from
Tins to time to excite a suspicion that all was not
as it should be in the 'Liberian Republic not
the industry with which it was puff.
ed, both in America and in England. Mr.. Pres.
Roberts came to this country. and got treat.
les with our Government, and large sum Of
money out of the peck It's of the friends of negro
emancipation, in support Of the supposed i'm
asylum of the liberated African, which
to spread liberty and civilization far and wide
on the coast. But, although the settlement has
been established for twenty-five years, We have
never heard Of anything it has produced by it's
industry, nor of any civilized effect it has had on
the natives in this vicinity; now we hear, on
French Government authority, that the captain of
a French SLAYER is invited to make the territory
of the Republic the chosen theatre of his opera.
tions for the shipment of a cargo of slaves, under
the mock title of free enigrants, the authorities
of the Government receiving tributes for the
same"
Should this story prove to be true. it will infict
a deadly blow upon Liberian Colonization. for
why should we encourage emigration to Liberia.
that the emigrants when they arrive may be sold
to French traders? Better send them at once to
the French islands. However, we v i'll yet hope
that the Liberian Government will he able to
prove these charges false. National Era.