Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-08
LIBERIA.
Message of President characterization and
Wants of the Country.


President Warner sent his annual message to
the Liberian Congress December IL. We ex-
tract portion in which reference is made to
this country, and an invitation held out to the
negro population here to return to father
land
1T affords me inexpreSSible pleasure to re-
fer to the cessation Of the unhappy contest in
the United States and especially as it has
terminated in the permanent extinction, |
trust, of human bondage throughout that great
country.
can unbounded prosperity doubt
less lies before that nation, rid as it is, of the
incubus which, from its foundation, has preyed
upon its vitals. But, in the month of July, in
the midst of our rejOicings at the triumphs of
the banner of freedom, affecting of unutterable
horror and indignation was sent throughout
this land, pervadng every household and sad
dening every heart, by the intelligence that
the President of the United States, the illus
triouS Abraham Lincoln, had fallen by the hand
of an assassin. Liberia, perhaps more than
any other independent community, and for
peculiar reasons, felt the shock Of the melan-
choly death, and bewailed the loss of Abraham
Lincoln.
Chow prOpheticai was the remark which,
nearly two years since, ne is said to have ut
tered, that 'swhen this war is done, l shall be
done too p
"On the subject of immigration we cannot
but feel deep interest," Our population is
still exceedingly scanty. Our need of pOprha-
ton is immediate and urgent. Our immense
resources cannot be developed-the fruits OF
the earth, spontaneously produced, cannot be
gathered-the fat of the land cannot be made
available, simply for the want of minds and
hands to engage in the necessary operations
Surely, with the vast latent capabilities of this
country, we have the ability to become pow
er by no means to be deSpiSed in the agricultu-
raj and commercial world.
owe have again and again invited our
| brethren in the United States to come over
and help us to fill up the vast solitudes, which
| for centuries remained uninhabited; while
| they, in exile in the western hemisphere, are
/ iOSted and elbOwed and trampled upon by an
oppressive race. But my hopes are as strong
as ever and my confidence remains unShakeI
in the destiny of Liberia, She is yet TO be the
asylum for the oppressed American negro and
a beacon for the guidance of the benighted
tribes of this continent. ! may not be able tC
predict the methods by which Africa's eXileG
sons are to be restored to her bosom but
feel certain that such an occurrence will il
some way OF other take place.
% II is the most likely solution of the yeXed
negro question in the United States and the
only one that has yet suggested itself TO thG
most distinguished statesmen and philanthro
nists of that country. And it is gratifying tC
notice that this view of probable events is be.
ginning 10 be entertained by some of the lead
inc black men also. Things are evidently tend
ling to that condition when the most indifferent
of our oppressed brethren in the United States
will be compelled to give the question of emf
grafton serious, studiOus and systematic con
sideration-a question upon which their physi
cal and political well being greatly depends