The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-06-30
NUMBER 26
THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.
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The scheme Of eolonizing Liberia with
HVsFoes rom America originated some sixty
years ago, the American Colonization Sorf-
~ aehaing out their FIRST company of
/ t!ShtY-six emigrauts in 1920 Short-siOht4B
( putanthropsts expected through II a solu.
/ ZION o. the American slavery question. and
aaso tiie eNaugelIzatiou Of Western Afric8
Ihe American negroes increased much more
/ rapidly, however, than they could be trans
+ ported, even II slavery had not been "a
/ serious obstacle % emigration. and many dr.
/ 'hose VINO started for Liberia died ON the
I way or soon after arriving there. The
/ experiment has assumed more and more Of
! au utopiah PhtSe, with spasmodic leases of
! me Il interested persons of some influence
/ nave seen nj u associate themselves with il
/ or speak I'm is favor. In raSn,pss r., ia.
/ printed statements ct Secretary CoppinFer
| OF the American Colonization ~5ciefy.
%nIch would create the impression that
L'hefia j. the promised land 10 which
American negroes should fly, George II.
/ n-etNon % Boston, publishes counter aSser-
/ lions, backed up by the testimony of trav-
/ ching missionaries and others From the.e
IL would seem that 20 of the ri colouist,
sent cut IN $50 and 81 of l+9 emigrants i'm
1871 died before they had been in Africa
year up to 1893 the colonization society
htl sent out 10000 emigrants AT an expense
OF -, HoU0oo, one-balf of whom had died
or left the country. In 1877. when the Re-
pubic was formed, the Africans from Amer.
lcd numbered 5000 and the aboriripss
100000, while 10 1878 the figure, were REL
specuvely $1,000 and 1Ot 900 II Is safe "a
conclude, therefore, that the Republic is
unhealthy for American negroes. an least
slavery l. also found IN Liberia under
system OF apprenticeship or "invslunta-
ry seryltude, which the authorities cannot
destroy William Ncsbit, an INTELLIGENT
negro, who has returned from Liberia. aud
is now notary pubic at Altoona. Pa.
says slavery, aS ableCt and far more mer-
CHESS than Is 70 be found almost anywhere
else, exists there universally" the slave.
being purchased from their parents for
from = to SD apiece a. they become old
aud big enough 10 work. The government
entirely IN the hands OF colored people. Is
marked with iucapaclty, Corruption mis- 4
management and disaster The Republic .
}. financially bankrupt An English writer.
Keith Johnson, an excellent authority ON I
African matters, said in 1872 In place of
having exercised elylli2ug influence on
the natives, the American negroes seem
only 10 have relap-ei into barbarism. The
iA'l'ir siAt IA q hthtNt w i'lRtdbIt t0uQlllnn.
morality at a low e5b, aud the people gen.
orally, oppressed with heavy taxes. are law
and incident The Liberia college, estab-
llshed by Christian philauthopists from
Boston and elsewhere some wears AGO. is a
failure, and the building, erected at great
expense, have been allowed 20 20 to ruin.
The pay OF laborers j. small, while the
prices OF lite- neceS.arieS are Lish Do
nestle animals do not thrive in the Libe-
.lan climate, and man has to bear many
burdens which in America would be placed
lpon beasts Ill feeling is also spriuging
up between the native, and the uolouists.
ind there Is movement among the former
% prevent further aggressions on their ter
1tory. From present appearances. it seems
tery much a. If the I.iberian colonists
instead Of shedding the bright light of civ
lAdtion aud Christianity upon their bar
'arian neighbors, were drifting into dark
less themselves