Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-03-08
LIBERIA,
Message ca President Warner
Condition and Wants of the
Country.

President Warner sent his annual message to-
the Libcrian Congress December IL. We make
these extracts:
"The ratifeatious OF tic treaty between Liberia
and Hayti and ihat between Liberia and Denmark
have been duly exchanged. treaty between Lii
IBERIA and his Majesty the King of Portugal has
been recently negotiated. II will be submitted for
tie consideration Of the Senate.
should not fall TO inform you that the most re-
markabe and pleasing feature of this treaty is tho
article asSimilatinS the Slave trade to piracy.
Ii affords me inexpressible pleasure to refer to
the cessation OF the unhappy contest in the United
Statesi and especially as il has terminated In the
permanent extia ction, trust, of human bondage
throughout that great country.
An unb0unded prosperity doubtless lies before that
nation, rid, it is, of tie incubus which, from its
foundation has preyed upon lis vtas. But in the
month OF July, IN the midst OF our reiocings at the
triumphs of the banner of Freedom a feeling of un-
utterable horror and Indignation was sent through
out the land, rervadIng every household, and sad
dening every heart, by the intelligence that the
President of the United States, the illustrious
/ Abraham Lincoln, had fallen by the hand of an
/ assassin. Liberia, perhaps more than any other
independent community, and for peculiar reas sons,
felt the shock of the melancholy death, and be-
walled the loss of Abr ham Lincoln.
How prophetical the remark which nearly
two years since he is said TO have uttered, that,
"Whcn the war is done, | shall be done, lool'
On the subject OF iinm mgraton we cannot bat feel
a Trep interest Our population is still exceeding
/ ly scanty. Our need OF population ;s immediate
and urgent Our immense resources cannot be
deyeloped; the fruits of the earth, spontaneously
produced, cannot be gatherod; the fat Of the land
cannot be made available, simply for the want of
minds and hands to engage i'll the necessary op-
erations. Surely with the vast capabilities of this
country, we have the ability to become power bv
no mcaEs to be dcspiscd in the agricultural and
commercial world.
| We have again and sgain inritel our brethren
in the United States to come over and help us fill
up the vast soliudes, which for centuries remained
unlnhablted; while they, in exile in the western
hemisphere, are jostlcd and elbOwed and tramplcd
upon by oppressive But NV hopes are a.
strong ever, and nay confidence remains unsha-
ken in the destiny of Liberia She is yet to be the
asylum for the oppressed American negro, and
beacon for the guidance of the benighted tribes of
this continent. | may not be able to predict the
meth ds by which Airica's exilcd sons are TO be
restored to her bosom; but feel certain that sucl,
| an occurrence viii in some way or other take
! place.
"It Is the most likely solution oftle vexed no
gro question in the United State; and the only
that has yc, suggested itself to the most distiH-
! guishcd statesmen and philanthropiss Of thas
country. And it is gratifying to notice that this
view of probable events is beginning to be enter
tained by some Of the leading black men also.
| Things evidently tending to that condition.
when the most Indifferent Of our oppressed breth-
in the United States Hill be compelled 10 give
;he question o: grafton aSerious, studious, and
! systematic cOnsderation-a question upon which
their physical and political well-bcinS greatly de-
Pends:
Africa is to be opened. The eyes Of the en-
terpgising in Europe arc intent upon the the dis
coyery of the of science and of wealth. hid
den in the unexplored regions Ofthis continent.