The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-30

smaller umber OF deaths than IN ne" Ehs'tha
and Canada among the same population. Inc
thermometer seldom rises higher than 80 deg,
nor fAllsbelow 20 deg. during u year.
The PRODUCTS of the soil are varied and album
dant, calable of sustaining an immense population.
The wart Of agri utural industry, rather than
the inca)acity Of the country 10 yield richly the
fruits of the earth. has been the difficulty with
the LibeiGns. With well-direoted labor, Of one
half the AMOUNT required among the farmers Of
the Unit.d States, large surplus of the eaT;h's
productions, over the demands 81 home consump-
ton, might be gathered. The country certainly
possesses the elements OF great prosperity.
The country now belongs TO the colonists, they
are lords of the sell, and in Intercourse with them
it is soon observed thai they are free from that
oppressive sense OF iaf3rsority whch marks the
coored people Of This country
IN religion, Liberia compares tavorably with
40, country. Tho number Of Carstan Churches
is lrge, and on Sunday a quietness prevails rare
ly seen in any couniry. 1t IS true that some Of
thu lower forms in the vivid connection of spirit
IA things may characterize the people, but far
preferable is that than the tendency Of our high
sr civilization toward attempting to bring the
mysteries OF oar holy faith within the scope Of
human reason, II is true that Liberia, Ike all
other places, furnishes its full quota Of people
showing the deprayity Of human nature. You
will fad there mn who will roo hen-yoo5.s, and
intrigue for Office, 5ut this does not arise from
the people beng black, bat because men are
men.
1t should ne. be forgotten taat the experiment
ID respec. u the co!ored race is essentially new
one. Yae idea tia. Hannibal, one Of the Eve
great gene.-s Of the wogld--ais enemies bring
jadges-aLd the distinguished Bishops and learned
fathers of the church, Cyprian and ST. Augustine,
were, properly speaking, Africans, ought long
since 20 have been Abandoned These men gege
As,atios or Europeans, rather than Africans--the
Great Desert being thc northern boundary of the
African race. In fact, the African, "a bis native
land, his never r9sc hel higher rank than the
King Of Dahomay. No philosopher among them
has Caugh, sght,oF the mysteries Of nature. No
poet has illustrated heaven, earth, or the life Of
man. No statesman has ever done anything to
tighten er brighten the Inks Of human policy.
la fac, il all that negroes iG Africa, before the
3ett.emeat Of Liberia, have accomplished, were to
De ob4teFated forever, The world would iose no
great truth, no profitable arr, no exemplary form
If life The loss Of all thai is African would
}ause no remarkable deduction from anything bet
he ear.h's black catalogue OF crimes.
The Republic of Liberia contains \ population
ii 100000 inhabitants not more than one.twen
etn Of this number are Am riean colonists. Its
growth has been &, adusl and healthy. The gov
'rnnent, tron its successful administration BY
blacks alone, for the last teen years, appears to
)e fully established, and with all its shortcomings,
would say TO the coiorel man in this country,
Who regards The highest interests Of bis children,
0 young men Of activity and enterprise, that L.
'eria affords the strongest attractions. prsssme
hat this society considers that the ceIoEed man
las his rights, one OF which 10 10 stay in this conn
ry, the land OF bis birth, if he prefers it the
ther is, to 90 to Liberia if be prefers that, and
letter his social, moral and political condition.