Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-14
ALEX ANDRIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL Il, 1866.
EMIGRATION TO AFRICA.


the weary knife grinder, embalmed in verse
by Canning, in the Anti Jacobin, have an OPP
portunity of showing their real interest and
real friendship for the African race, by turn
ing attention to the prospects and inducements
held out by the American Colonization Society,"
to all emigrants who will go to Liberia where
the black race would be a thousand times bet
ter off, in every respect, than they are, or can
ever be, in this country. 70 worthy colored
persons the American Colonization Society will
furnish comfortable passage to Liberia with
support on the way, and provide shelter and
subsistence du1iog the first six months after
arr, al at any place in the Republic, which the
emigrants shall select as their future residence.
Five acres of land Tor each single adult, orfrom
seven, to ten acres fol- family, are also freely
given Schools, seminaries, aud a College, all
Offered by members of theirown race, are open
to the chill iren of the newcomers, without
charge of tuition Churches of the several de-
nominations abound. The useful trades and
callinps are successfully followed. Agriculture
is prosecuted, and commerce is increasing
There is everything to hope Tor the future OF
Africa, if a steady stream Of emigration tbither
be continued from this country.
Fl. w. johnson, an intelligent colored man,
formerly Of Capandaigua, New York, went
with his family to Liberia, where he arrived
earlyin July last. In a letter to Mr.. Ray, of
Palmyra, with whom he served an apprentice
ship as barber, he says:
eve had ten acres of land given US, and can
buy all we wish from the Government for from
fifty cents to one dollar per acre. Every far
mer here tells me that one acre of land will
yield as much as from SIX to ten acres will 10
any part otthe United States. This looks like
big story; but il you could only visit Africa.
you would soon become convinced that it Is
true. Crops, V, getaLles and fruits are constant
II growing here the whole year Cotton is
fond A-a-u1here 1t grows upon trees of in-
mense s11e, nd is as,sntt as silk. The pine
apple orange. lemon. lime, cirron, and many
other kinds of choice and delicious fruits bloom,
blossom aud bear, the whole year hay, Atrl.
ca is glorious county All that is required
to ms ke it the garden OF the world is popuia
ton, capital, industry, and enterprise.
IF the colnred people Of the United States
would come here and settle, it would soon be
the garden Of the world-a perfect paradise on
earth There is a great plenty of poultry here,
such as chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, etc
There is also plenty Of goats, sheep, swine, and
cattle. 1t is nothing to keep these things here.
The country is so rich and luxurlant that they
find their own living, and keep tat all the time
You have been told that the people here live
in bamboo houses and log huts. / wish you
would only visit Liberia, aud judge for yourself
The mott OF the houses here are OF brick, stone,
or wood, and many of them are elegantly fur
nished. Every Industrious person blessed with
ordinary health makes money. 1t must be a
very shlftless and worthless fellow who cannot
live WILL here, with ordinary health That you
may judge for yourself, [ will state that this
season is winter here, yet the grass Is green,
the flowers are in Lloom we have green corn.
sweet potatoes, beans, cabbages, and vegetables
aud fruits never heard of before [ came here.
Cocoanuts oranges, lines, and plne-aprles are
found everywhere. Hens lay and hatch the
whole year. My friend, has not nature done
all that can be required OF her for this country?
Can even you ask tor more?
And yet, with all this, we find the pretended
peculiar white friends of the black people, In
stead of advising an exodus to their native land,
with such prospects, encouraging them to re-
main in;the cities and towns of this country, in
degradation and poverty, and with the prospect
of the gradual extinction Of the whole race!
PRESIDENT JOHNSON, and the friends Of the
administration, have certainly no cause to COM
plain OF lukewarmness in the press and people
of the South, In the effort to sustain him, IN
the present struggle with Radicalism, in which
I, -. H. a hair
and ability they have joined with the Union
Conservatives at the North in this effort They
have been honest and sincere. Whilst dis
guising their political feelings. or mean shirk.
ing from their position, they have felt it to be
a duty and a pleasure, as citizens of the United
States, and now deeply and vitality interested
in the preservation Of the Constitution as it is,
and the Government under which they live, to
support the Reconstruction policy Of the Pres
ident They seat no words, and change 20
opinions, as to what they believe to have been
the errors of the President in the past, and the
worse than errors of many of his agents, advi
sers, and subordinates; but, here, in this ex-
IRENE hour of danger-in this contest between
right and wrong-in this combat between the
President and Faction-between law, order,
peace, and re union on the one hand, and dis
order, prolonged civil strife and dsunion, on the
other-they see and acknowledge the heroic
stand taken by the President and, as we have
said, TO the extent Of their ability, sustain him,
in that; and stand by him, and will always be
grateful to him.
He, too, as a man Of feeling, andin the exer-
else Of the best principles of human nature,
must appreciate this course no matter how
much he may have differed, Of late years, from
the Southern people, or how much he may
have disapproved Of their action. To acquire
the appreciation Of his fellow citizens-in any
and all portions of the country especially Of