The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22
perfect man than he 'is' in America. II
ahowe6 that there is more capability in

to noXlous weeds, IN the negro. lt ls Is
well to say it right here-despite theil
many ignorances, their conceit and their
improvidence and inertness, tie average
Liberian is in most ways immeasurably
superior to the average American negro,
and those at Sierra Leone are as far
above him in requirements as the clouds
are above the earth. In the social re.
finements the better classes Of colored
people there seem perfect. In one
thing. could notice distinctly the
three degrees of progression, as illustra-
ted by the English Colony negro, the
Liberian negro, and The American
negro
THE oBsERvANCEs OF TABLE Ell
~ oUETTE. Y..&.
This. ,is small matter at first sight,
but it tells story when looked into.
History Wil show that in proportion as
raen have become civilized they have
paid more and more attention 10 the little
,niceties and daintinesses that redeem thy
taking of food from the! 1ncleanlyf anSS
disgusting obediencs to necessity and S3A
;ereise of. xluttony Of the savage to the
;pleasurabfe, graceful and cleanly indul-
leenee: e:ih: a.luxury of the well-bred Euro
Dean or American. Il. is very we'll to
SPOUT Burns, but eYens the; most, iahia
universal social equality lunatic would
find tit difficult to realize that the man
.Whos sits olte;. whp. makes of lhis
mouth ausopen sepulchre in which he
;infers all of his feelings, senabilities and
intellectual developments, shovels in on
them huge and indiscrimihate masses s6f
foodywit6 hisknife and gulps his wineas
fit we're dose of medicine, Is q man
fol; q that. Peoples style Of eating is
generally fair Indication of their pro-
9ress in civilization. The Bushman eats
his fish talf raw with his hands; the
Chinaman conveys it neatly and deftly
to his mouth with chopsticks; the Eng
lishman carefully, and as deity, scoops"
it in with silver fork. These are the
three degrees. 2 fI don't mean TO say that
q man is uncivilized unless he eats his
fshfwith q bit Sf bread and q fork, but
the civilized man, however he does han
die. his food, does it cleanly y, Tell ithot
in Cath, publish it not in the streets of
Askalon, bnt almost every. meal I took
while on; African soil VAS in company
with colored people. A man, and es-
pecially a newspaper reporter, has, from
policy and. .decency both, to subordinate
hisprejpdices and habits to politeness,
besides which Xxx 20
"We can live without knowledge; what is
= knowledge but grisying? st
We can. lya without hope; what is hope
!. but decsiying?
We can Iive without love; what is love but
repining?.
But whefels the man who can. live without
dining T. =
I can safely asSeverate that he isn't in
my boots at any rate. The correctness
ofithe: :quotation is not youched for. ~ fits
the only pant t.of s'Lucille,n if it is "Lu-
cille,n that ever impressed me much" ~
But the Sierra Leone people display a
spontaneous and unconscious scrupulous-
ness regarding the observance of all
p6ints-of taBls etiquette, such as is hard
" seen in the best American households,
and puts ali 'ha6isual, al,sitter at hotel tables
to diligently recalling the precepts in
culcated in his youth regarding the
proper manipulation of table furniture,
&c. The Llberians are apparently much
less enlightened Son+sthis subject, and
seemed, with one or two exceptions, to
pay little attention to IL, while the Azor's
people had d'eaeh their own original and
untrammelled style, the main object
seeming to be the consumption of the
greatest possible amount of food in the
least possible time. Almost everybody,
both in Sierra Leone and Liberia, had
.claret at dinner, and there was usually a
glass Of sherry OF Madeira rendered be-
fore Or after the meal:
- q TRADE WITH THE SOUTH.
But all this is wandering far away from
my, friend Sharp, which is my last geo.
graphical point he displayed a feeling
which seems quite prevalent among a
large portion of the Liberians-a desire
TO do his trading with the United StaSes,
ifpossibfe With the South. More than
one repeated to me his expressed senti-
ments, that Gin spiteof everything" their
sympathies were with the land of their
birth, and they would like to deal with
her people. 1t lisa fattering compli.
ment TO the. business men of that section,
that they seem to possess the confidence
of those who knew them years ago, in the
highest degree. One of the leading Ii.
berians said: ~ know the men who gen.
orally do business in South Carolina are
genuemen,i and that they are above a
dirty trick, or taking advantage of man
because he is far away" (the speaker is
a Carolinian.) This feeling seems to be
generally entertained. It may perhaps
be: partly attributed to the. desire to
escape from the monopoly held by q
New York house, who do much business
along the West Coast, and have been
clever enough to obtain almost complete
control of the Liberian trade, which
seems to be quite plum. They sell al
most everything that is sold in Liberia,
the Monrovisn storekeepers replenishing
their stocks from the New Workers. ships,
and paying; certainly, very good prices
in produce ror money. This is, I think,
one of the obstacles to Liberian progress.
Competition would enable them to sell
higher and buy cheaper, thus stimula-
ting trade, and necessarily increasing
prosperity. Various Dutch and English
firms have been established from time 20
time, and, receiving their own goods on
their own ships, have been enabled to
underscll and 90 away ahead of the Lii
berian merchants, making fortunes while
they plod along in the same old ruts.
THE FIRST ORDER FOB CHARLESTON.
-..Jesse Sharp, who. seems to be one-of
those men always willing to back up his
words by his acts, showed his sincerity
by sending a cash order to a large
Charleston firm for sashes, timber, &C.,
for his house, the goods to be brought by
the Azor on}the return trip. While on
this subject I will say that the new i'm
migrants all manifested the same feelings.
To precede the narrative little, when I
returned to Monroyia, and in answer to
questions told them what I had seen of
country cotton, exhibiting the; samples
they generally and joyfllly exclaimed,
"Well YOU bet the cotton makers are