Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-04

t1reSluenL w drner sent HIS ANNUAL Mess
age to the Liberian Congress Dec. IL. We
make these extracts:
and Hayti and that between Liberia and Den
mark, have been duly exchanged. A treaty be-
tween Liberia and His Majesty the King OF Portue
gal has been recently negotiated. 1t will be sub
mitted to the consideration Sfthe Senate.
i should not fail TO informyou that the most re-
markabe and pleasing feature of this treaty is the
article assimilating the slay. trade to piracy.
This formal and emphatic protest against the
horrible traffic by the Government of Portugal is
full of announcement. 1t an indication that
we are approaching towards the suppression of Il
trade of unparalleled atrocities, which has left an
almost irrecoverabie blight upon many fair
portion Of this land, and consigned millions of hui
man beings TO a watery gave or to brutalities to
which such grave is far preferable.
1t affords me inexpressibe pleasure to refer to
the cessation ofthe unhappy contest in the United
States, and especially it has terminated i'll the
permanent extinction, trust Of human bondage
throughout that great country.
An unbounded prosperity doubt
less hes before that nation. rid it is, of the in
eubus which, from It's foundation, has preyed upon
its vitas. But in the month Of July, in the midst
of our rejoicings at the trumphs of the banner of
freedom, a feeling OF unutterable horror and in
dignation was sent throughout the land. perva-
ding every household and saddening every heart
by the intelligence that the President of the
United States, the lllustrious ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
had fallen by the hand of an assassin. Liberia
perhaps, more than any other independent COM
munty, and for peculiar reasons. telt the shock of
the melancholy death, and begailed the loss of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
How prophetical was the remark which nearly
two years since be is said to have uttered that
" when the war is done snail be done tool"
On the subject of immigration we cannot but
feel deep interest. Our pc pulation is still OK
ceedingly scanty. Our need of POPULATION is I'M
mediate and urgent. Our in m resources
cannot be developed-the fruits of the earth,
spontaneously produced, cannot be gathered
the fat of the land cannot DE made available.
simply for the want OF mids and hands to engage
in the necessary operations, surely with the vast
ability to become "a power by no means to br des-
pissed in the agricultural and commercial world.
We have again and again invited our brethren
in the United States to come over and help us to
fill up the vast soiitudes, which for centuries re-
manned uninhabIted while they, ia exile in the
western hemisphere. are jostled and ebowed aud
trampied upon by an oppressive race. But my
hopes are as strong as ever and my confidence re-
mains mistaken Ia the destiny of Liberia. She is
yet to be the asylum for the oppressed American
negro and a beacon for the galdenca of the be-
nlghted tribes of this continent. l may not be
able to predict the methods by which Africa
exiled sons are TO be restored to her bosom; but
L feel certain that such an occurrence will in
some way or other take place.
1t Is the most likely solution of the vexed ne
gro question in the United States and the only
one that has yet suggested itself to the most dis
unguished statesmen and philanthropists of that
country. And II If gratifying to notice that this
view of probable events Is beginning 10 DO enter
lAlucu W souib VI DlhtA utu Aiso.
Things are evidently teAding TO that condition
when the most indifferent OF our oppressed breth-
rem in the United States will be compelled to
give the question OF einlgrdt serious, sndious
and systematic consideration-a question upon
which their physical and political sell-being
greatly depends.
Africa Is to be opened. The eyes of the enter
prising in Europe intent upon the discovery
of the secret of the science of wealth, hidden in
the UNEMPLOYED regions of this continent. rsI
The necessities OF com,nsrce and the desire of
mankind will compel this land to contribute 10
the comfort and luxury Of ether quarters OF the
globe. We ia Liberia have been permitted TO
make a very promising opening; and applications
being made to us by capitalists in foreign lands,
their agents, to be allowed TO take part with
in the work of subj ugating this continent.
While the country should guard strictly against
the insinuations of undue foreign influence, yet
no unnecessary obstruction by legal enactfnents
should be put in the way of foreign enterprise.