The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

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therefore all eyes were turned toward
him; many with jealousy and some
with hatred.
The poorer class, who had been often
deceived in the election of government
officials, broke loose from both the old
parties and elected this new. and now
that wealth lay in his path and honors
on bare shoulders, upon him, the idea
occurred to him to get married. At
the house of Ex-Governor Hicks, where
he often dined, was the adopted daugh-
ter of the governor, the pretty, brown
faced Hannah, without kith or kin In
the world. So in his business-ike man.
ner he courted her three weeks and
married her. This too was another wise
hit, for Hannah was born in Liberia
and could speak five or six Of the ma
tive languages, which is half the battle
in trading. Leaving his wife to man.
age home affairs, he bought an English
vessel and cargo out and out, made his
first trip to the gold coast, where the
Ashantee war has just been fought.
This was another twenty thousand
stroke in less than thirty-four months.
Returning, he landed at home in Mon
rovia, and sent vessel and cargo to Eng.
land for sale, and both sold well.
j. j. Roberts, the first president and
now the sixth one, has been a lifelong
enemy of Mr.. Roye, and the feeling was
entirely mutual between them. Mr..
Roye was three times nominated and de-
feated for the presidency before he sue.
ceeded in taking the chair. He was
also senator and chiefjustice of the re-
public. In these positions the worst
enemies could find no fault. An exam.
nation of his record as chief justice will
show that he knew how to do something
else beside money making and money
keeping. His plan of laying railroad
to the interior, in order that the vast
production Of that region, much OF
which now goes to waste, might be used
for the benefit of the people, was and is
now the leading want of the republic.
But there are fogies and sore-heads in
Liberia who would sink the whole traffic
rather than see men who came there
later than themselves rise in the estima
ton Of the people.
Mr.. Rove was elected president in
1868, the term at that time being two
years. His party being strongly in the
ascendency, thought they could enact
law by which he could hold his seat
without an election, they believing 100
honest voters could be obtained before
the people, most Of whom cannot read
or write, for signing that act. Both he
and all the heads Of departments were
imprisoned for usurpation; he remain
ing several weeks in Jail, made his es-
cape, and in attempting to get to a
British steamer, then lying in the Bay
of Monrovia, he was drowned. The body
was recovered and delivered to his fam
lily and friends, and decently buried I'M
der the waving palm trees in his lot in
Evergreen cemetery. The government
confisca ted some of his property and
did many little things common in all
places under great excitement.
Mr.. Roye was the wealthiest man in
Liberia, and his family will not want
unless they become extraordinary ex'
travagant. Thus ended the life of a
black man that proved, at least, that a
negro can make money aad keep it; that
he can aspire to Office and get it, and
become too ambitious-like as other
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