The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-29
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gessaon, sons yeAn $50, elioitsd approval from
practical and judicious pessoAs. TAis wAs =
line OF steamers 70 the western cost OF Az
rtca, designed 70 promote the colonisauon "
IRE usgross. 70 sopprsss the Afrsoea seve
trads, 70 carry the NAH, and 70 ex'sno tue
commerce OF the United STATES. ~
commended In IN able report Oh tno O"al.-
man Of the House Committee OF Navai Al
fAirs, In response - q meenoraai OF cer0An. !
xentlsmsu. amongst whom Wassa BkvsRLr
Tvcxra Esq, formerly Of this city. The
conmt,sss proposed to make tho Hoe consist
Of three ships, which should make monthly
trips TO Liberia. touching on their rstura At
certain points in Spain, Portugal France and
England; thus one ship would leave New
York every three mon tbs, touching At Swan
nah for freight and mails one leave Balti-
more every three months, touching At Norfolk
and Charleston for passengers, freight and
mails; aud one leave New Orleans every
three months, with liberty to touch at any OF
the West India Islands. They would proceed
directly to Liberia, with liberty to touch at
any of the islands or ports Of the coast of Al
RIGA thence to Gibraltar, carrying the Wedi-
1erraneau mails; thence to Cadiz, or some
other port of Spain, TO be designated by the
Government; thence to Lisbon; thence to
Brest, or some other port of France; and
thence TO London. bringing mails from all
those points to the United States. Each ship
was to be built under the supervision Of the
Navy Department, commanded by a naval Of
1icer, and so constructed - to be easily con-
veried into war steamers. The Colonization
Society TO pay go for each emigrant over
twelve years Of age, and the Government COM
pensation SAT, 900 for each and every trip. The
expense Of the three steamers was estimated
at sl2i,O 600 Per annum, Of which $4s0,OUO
would be paid by the Government for the
transmission Of mails, &c, $5l,U00 by the
Colonization Society, estimating 800 emf
grants for each voyage. and S3 as the net
pront ON each, thus leaving e6s7, 600 TO be
made by commerce and the transportation Of
passengers other than emigrants.
We wish that this scheme or something
like it, could be revived. African coloniza-
ton has always been q favorite idea with Vir-
GINA Whilst only q colony, her House of
Burgesses enacted laws against the foreign
slave trade In December, 1916, q few month
before the Institution Of the Colonization So
ciety, the Virginia Legislature adopted q reso-
luton, requesting the Governor to correspond
with the President of the United States for
the purpose Of obtaining a Territory on the
coast Of Africa for free persons Of color. Ten
or fifteen thousand free negroes have already
emigrated to Liberia eighty thousand natives
have become citizens of the Repablic, and she
has made treaty stipulations with tribes,
numbering 200 600, for the suppression Of the
slave trade. This is certainly not discourag-
ing progress, when we remember the difficult
ties which infant colonies have always to en-
counter; that, in 1918, the eleventh year Of
the settlement Of Virginia, the colony only
numbered six hundred souls. When Sir
WALTER RALKIGH. in $780, sent ont his relief
to his second large expedition, of 1887, not q
vestige of them was to be found. Recent &C.
cessions from re-captured Africans have in
creased the numbers Of the Liberian colony,
and line of steamers, such as we have re-
ferred to, might afford facilities for the trans
portation Of those hereafter taken to Liberia
where they might be civilized and made use.
full, after the fashion of the British colony
But, in other points of view. this measure il
worthy of attention. It is admitted by every
one that considerable augmentation Of our
steam navy ought to be made, and ms ead of
direct addition to the navy proper, the same
object might be attained by lines Of steam
packets, established by private enterprise un-
der the auspices of the Government. Great
Britain has not less than a hundred and
twenty mail steamers fitted for war purposes,
and built under the inspection of the Govern
ment. In this way the vast expenditures re-
. q uired in naval ornaments may be made sub
servient to the purposes of commerce in time
of peace. The commercial inducements to
such q line as we advocate are many and OBJ
vious. 1t is the testimony OF experienced ira
velers and residents That the whole country
between Cape Mont and French Town is rich
in soil and other natural advantages, and Ca
pable. almost beyond any other country on
earth. Of sustaining q numerous and civilized
population The interior is accessible to navi-
cation and trade the climate is as healthy as
that Of the tropics generally; there are re-
xions of beautiful and fertile country, afford
ing opportunities for legitimate commerce OF
iudefinits extension. The great river Niger
waters thousands Of miles of rich and we'll
wooded territory. Ivory, vegetable tallow,
peppers, indigo, cotton, wool, palm Oil, dye
woods, timber woods, skins, and a vast variety
of produce, invite trade, and have already at
tracted to the coast OF Africa the commercial
enterprise aud marine of Great Britain. In
stead Of keeping an expensive naval force on
the African coast. would We not much better
have line Of mercantile stsamsrs7 In one
single year nearly ninety thousand slaves
have been exported from Africa In spite Of all
the squadrons on the coast thus showing their
complete inefnciency to suppress the slave
trade, and at the same time demonstrating
that it IL quite practicable, under far more ia
vorable auspices, 70 transport in a few years
70 the same country all the free negroes in the
United States.
Travelling. 20 *ttff
The education Of an Englishman is not con-
sidered complete until be has made the tour
Of Europe. No matter how we'll q man may
b read in books, 1t 10 impossible to liberalize
and enlarge his mind. unless he looks once in
. while beyond his own narrow horizon, aud
Discovers that there are other nations besides
his own nations with institutions. laws, GUS
toms and habits, which, unreasonable ana
even prepos ferrous As some Of them may APP
mar have morn foundation In feason and