The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-02
THE "DARKIEs" GOING.
ANoT HEH SHIP LOAD FOR LIBERIA-woRK OF
THE COLONIZATION sosIlTIEs--"A LAND OF
MILK AND HONEY. Il"

ANOTHER SHIP LOAD FOR LIBERIA-woRK OF
THE COLONIZATION sosIlTIEs--'A LAND OF
MILK AND HONEY"
From the Philadelphia Times, June IL
ELIZABETH Cry. \. c.. May 81, 1878.
Tho underground railroad" Is again In operation
In the South, ind colony OF negroes Is secretly
ganz,ng for expstraton in this Pasquotank) and tho
adjscent counties oil Currltuck, Camden and Per-
| quimana The Liberia, bark Of about i've hundred
TONS arrived At New York from Africa and Thurs
day. June 20 has boon liked Tor her departure to
Monrovia. The intending North Carolina emigrants
VIII 60 on her. Their preparations being made
very quietly Tor lear OF interference with tho
meni.
The voyage OF the Liberia Is at the expense OF the
Pennsylvania Colonization Society. The sum OF
So 900 has been voted for II. The expedition, how
ever n under the direction OF the American ColonIza.
ton Society, 10 which tbs Pennsylvania Society is
auxiliary, and TO whose corresponding secretary.
Mr.. William Coppinger, OF Washington, d. e., tho
selection Of the cmigr-nts and tho management CT
the affair in al lis preliminary details has been
m,tted Mr. Copplngor visited Curri uck county last
month"; and was in this part Of North Carolina some
ten days. returning TO Washington tho Gath Of
April He had the whole country-Norlh well as
South-'beiore him whore TO choose" the entire
matter OF designating tho bsnelciariss Of the $4,000
appropriation OF the Philadelphia philanthropists
beng absolutely in his hands. His decision highly
complimentary TO the colored population OF this
region, who really compare favoraby with their TEL
lows anywhere. Those who are TO 60 are poor, but
moral, pious. industrious people. Their white neigh
bors viii miss then for IN tins immediate section tho
coored laborers greatly thinned out during The
war and they have been getting evcr since.
Tho cost allowed Tor each person going the bark
Liberia Is 500 for adult and $50 for child. "
would involve too much expense Tor tho vessel 70
come down from Now York after the coionsts, and
they will be sent by way or the Dismal Swamp aud
the Albemare anu Chesapeake Canals to Norfolk,
where they will take ono VI the steamships OF Tho
OLD Dominion line TO New York, A. 90 pVcal rates
agreed ON with INC company. An agent ~ the COLO
AVIATION society will accompany them nom hore. III
keep them together ana secure them from
reference and nolcsiaop About forty days Is recK-
onod Tor the Liberals passage from New York
rova. That the time occupied ~ bar last
ward trip IN Janua aud February oil this year. She
is said 10 DC stanch vessei aud likely carry her
passengers comfortably anu land them safely.
LAND OF MILK AND HONEY.
The colonsls have been toiu. nave DISPOSE
tl0n 10 question tho truth Of tue statements made 10
them, that the climate VI Liberia - not only entirely
healthy but delightful III said that the TIER
momeer IS rarely ABOVE ~ degrees anu seldom under
~. Slips have been printed ana distributed among
such Of the coIonists MS Gao read have seen some
OF them. They STATE along with other things, tnat
Bishop Payne, OF the Protestant Episcopal Church,
white man. veo IN Liberia thirty tnres years his
health, much SO that when Mrs. Payne WAS In Phil
adephia years ago, she Was an xous TO return.
".
born IN United States. but educatod Cambridge
England, hyeu there twenty years. He SAID that
to Liberia would add ten. years 10 his life, ana
that the health OF his mother, eighty ycars ou, I'm
proved after being iakon thithcr. These things tell
with the BUCKS, who share III the universal human
longing Tor longevity. But the testimony OF Rev.
Robert A. NJ. Dspu,y u colored commissioner from
the PrcsDyiory vi ostsrn Africa 10 the General As
semDiy Of the Presbyterian Church vi tue United
States last year, 10 them most convincing He -
alleged have said address your city In Au-
gust 1S77-h.s brother, Methodist minister, occupy
ing tue pla. form with nim-that his parouts went
| " Liberia from Chambcrsburg, Pa. twsnty-six
years before with SIX cnillren, oi from two 70 six.
teen years; tnAt there death among tho
cuilur.n Tor ears that they aii grew up ana
married, ana that twenty oi thor descendants
were tnon living, tbrte OF wnom became preachers.
Tuey are pleased 100, at curniu. that though wnno
may live there he cannot vote hold V1icc or buy
lanc, but must rcDt OF a coiored landlord
somo OF h,tio that beng passed n cm
hand hand and road 70 eager stenefs a. night by
the nare pitch pine torcnights tell how coorei
colony Of sixty from Aurn county AND eighty IRON
the year failure the Halifax COLOMBIA
ton plan-ssi sail Tho Goconda Africa got
| aud Arlhny.on, named ~ honor of the patrons OF
the expedition, Charles Brewer Iato Of Ptsburg. Pa,
and Robert Arlington, vi Lc0as, IN England. ~
pears that Brewer ieIt $1,000 10 tho Psnnsyivanls
Colonizalion society, which more tnxu aouUlSu
tho estate, and was applied ~ the society IN send
ing out The coionists from Martin. ArthingtOn PAID
Tor the Berte county m.n, ana has Within The last
year donated $30,OOU Tor missionary work IN Africa.
WORK Axa LIGHT TAXES. M..
They assured that they raise sweet potatoes,
maze, lice and sugar cane ~ goody Quantities with
little labor tnat docs rvplantng every
year, but grows 10 perennial tree, oil which they
can pluck, ut their own sweet WILL the material tor
cothes. and ihcy 10 word, produce on their
every thing that thcy need save sat- Ihey
tolu that Icrtic land - be had nifty per
are, AID that taxes arc Gully twenty cents the
S1vO; also that they anass wealth BY tho cuiva-
tion OF coffee, winch The women and children can
tcId anu gather rhcy arc told that the Ilberian
coffee tho world. alter Mocha, ana sells
Tor nearly twice macn any other that they
plant 800 tho acre, winch will reach bearing
years IRON the sted Tut thut they buy
tue young trecs yoar old ~ six cents apiece This
coee II Is claimed lives thirty years. Zach tree
yielding pounds oil berries the iirsI Year bears
three pounds the second year and TOUR pounds tho
third.
IL TO b. hoped that all these statements, thus
nude TO these crsdulors, but worthy people, true,
Tor II would BIO pity ~ DELUXE them Win false
psctaliuns. The American Coordination soce.y has
challenged the censorship OF the country since jan
uafy 1917, and u numbers among It's iouuu.Is such
men : Danioi Webster, John Randolph, of Roanoke,
and Judge Bushrod Washington. heir nantes have
no doubt iaiicn upon equally respectful and honest,
u eminent, SUCCESSIVE IL is due ~ the credit
Of organization OF so nigh character. ana whlcu
has q great good 10 tho past that nothing
the truth snouid DO allowed 10 be uttered by those