The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-26

rank vegetation from that very soil whose
richness tie agents exalted, are the cause
of the terrible malaria. Ague gets the
better Of civilization. IT. kills every
white man who remains there q few
years. ~ ~. Is 5.t. Il. +.
appear: to suffer from the malaria. Like,
the Florida Indians, who are proof
against mosquito bites, they appear to be.
soaked so full, ,of poison that Sc does not
hurt them. But the; American: born ne.
gro suffers nearly as much as:the white.
man. The mortality of the fever may be
Judged from some facts given by Mr.,
Stetson. On one occasion coasting
vessel made "a. trip to The. delta Of the.
Niger. She had d crew Of ffty.fyei per-
sons. OF these, twenty died.,
Another vessel was sent to the same
place With crew of twenty men. Ten
of them died within four weeks. = = & &
It will be remembered that o. passion,
for emigration to Liberia suddenly seized
the colored people Of Georgia and the
Corolinas three years ago. They sailed
thither by Hundreds. One ship. the Azor,
tooE 256 emiigrants from Charleston at
oneeS.load. It was fine fun-the starring,
All SHARED the deyout belief that they
we're going direct to the promise land.
but al their hopes turned to the bitterest,
disappointment. The disgusted pilgrims
died Of like sheep id a Colorado blizzard.
In many cases Of negroes emigrating to:
Liberia from. America whole families
died, not one being left alive. One fam,
lily Of ten persons from Georgia sailed in
the Azor. Three died onishipb0 b0ard and.
two at Monrovvia. The other five begged.
mony and fed back to Georgia before the.
acclimating fever took then, too. Many
others ofthe colonists who sailed within
a few wears to Africa are sending for:
money to bring them home. I, Liberia,
the country Of fertile soil and beautiful.
landscape, is so sickly that the very,
horses and mules die that are taken,
there e; e. r. ~.
|, Concerning other aspects of life in the,
model negro Republic educational, in
dustrial, social, and political-the testi-
mony is no less emphatic. The term.
"lazy African" is probably only under.
stood in its truest sense in Africa, Under
the schorching sun the laziness strikes in.:
The climate effects even the industrious
freedman from America. In time he,
too, gives up the struggle and ceases to-
he turns, to politics ss an easier way of
getting a living. He, seeks athem ERE
Offices with enthusiasm. Thus he, at
least, shows his capacity for the highest
civilization. Libsrian elections are.quite.
as siloud and lively and as frequent as in
the grest "moddle" Republic Of the Uni
ted States, which; The little African one
was patterned after. '3l -. Z. :. .,,. -,
Liberian exports have been steadily
declining for number Of years. a bare
subsistence is not hard to obtain among
the naked aborigines. What is the good
Of working when one is not Obliged. to DO
# is not agreeable to record tho fact
that slavery exists throughout the negro
Republic.s It's horrors down South never
surpassed the like horrors among these
Liberians, whose slaves are of their own
and kindred. - -!
ID other respects the Africans who
rule Liberia have shown their ability to
acquire q high civilization--the very
highest indeed. They have got bonded
debt, It is so large one that there is
noprospect Whateyer they will ever pay:
it.es Moreoper, tits all owned in London,
every penny. Putting the two facts to-:
gether; and connecting them by q, link OF
reasoning with 3 well-known peculiarly
Of the noble British nature, it is not hard
to make prophecy concerning the future
of this, the one black Republic on the
face of the earth. -,
Some very singular facts have been de-
yeloped in the history of Liberia. No
BODY was. more enthusiastic in the cause
ofAfricanl colonization from this country
than the churches and the religious com
munity.a Missionaries went there by the
hundred, labored among the black saw
ages and deid martyrs to their Christian
devotion. Who does not remember for
years "Afric's sunny fountains" as the
objective points of missionary work in
America 2. 9
What has come of all this work, of the
sacrifice of all these unsel6sh lives ?
Christians everywhere expected the
Christianizatiop of all Africa as confident.
lyi as the Second Adventists looked for
the end of the world. The happy result
never followed. One of the wild negro
tribes that joined the Liberian Govern.
ment was Mohammedan in religion.
There are forty wild negro tribes in the
a.hole country. Instead of these naked
b eathens coming under the gentle in.
Huence of the Bible, the one Mohamme-
ian tribe among them is converting them
to the faith of the Turk with amazing
rapidity. There actually q prospect
that at no distant day majority OF the
inhabitants of Liberia will be followers Of
the crescent and the Koran.
Such is stated to be the present condi,
ton Of Liberia. Instead of ciyilizing the
native negroes, there really seems rather,
to be danger that the civilized negroes
who went. there will relapse into 5arba.
rism. They are the merest handful
among. SO, many. They suffer horribly
from the climate, and are growing poorer
md poorer. Meantime an insiduous
British influence grows stronger and,
stronger, English men.of:war cruise
along their coast and lie at anchor in
their ports. English goods. go into their
country in larger and larger quantities
every year, and they are inyeigled more
and more into debt to Great Britain.
The certain end does not seem many
years of.