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120 THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA—
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Owing To The Recent Visit Of Mr. Benson,...
House and eight of the Upper House ; each county sending two members to the Senate . Hereafteras the population augments ,
, each 10 , 000 persons will be entitled to an additional representative . The Vice-President must be thirty-five years of age , and have real
property to the value of 600 dollars ; and in the case of the absence or death of the Presidenthe serves as President . He is
, also President of the Senate , which , in addition to being one of the branches of the Legislature , is a council for the President
of the Republic ; he being required to submit treaties for ratification and appointments to public offices for confirmation . The President
must be thirty-five years of age , and have property of 600 dollars . The judicial power is vested in a supreme court , and such
subordinate courts as the Legislature may from time to time establish . " Liberia is situated on that part of the coast of Guinea called the
Grain Coast , having the San Pedro River as its S . E . boundary , seventyeight miles E . of Cape Palmasand running along the coast to the
, mouth of the Shebar River , 125 miles N . W . of Monrovia . It has about 600 miles of coast line , and extends back about 100 miles
on an average , but with the facility of almost indefinite extension into the interior ; the natives everywhere manifesting the greatest
desire that treaties should be formed with them , or that the limits of the Republic may be extended over all the neighbouring districts .
The Liberian territory has been purchased by more than twenty treatiesand in all cases the natives have freely parted with their
, titles for a satisfactory price . The chief solicitude has been to purchase the line of sea-coast , so as to connect the different
settlements under one government , and to exclude the slave trade , which formerly was most extensively carried on at several places on the coast ,
now within the Republic , from which it is therefore now happily excluded . The countrylately devastated by the infamous slave-traders ,
, is now being cultivated and enriched by peaceful agriculture and extending commerce . It furnishes a home to the defenceless natives
who have fied for protection from slavery and death . The natives know that within Liberian jurisdiction they are secure from the
liability of being seized and sold into slavery . " The original settlers landed in Liberia , at Cape Mesurado , on
the 25 th of April , 1822 , and hoisted the American flag . At this placemoreoverthe capital was established , and the colony
con-, , tinued under the fostering care of the American Colonization Society , till the 24 th of August , 1847 , when it was proclaimed a
free and independent , state—the Republic of Liberia . England and France soon welcomed this small state into the family of nations
by making' treaties of amity , commerce , and navigation with her . The United States has not yet acknowledged the young Republic .
Many slaves in America were emancipated expressly for emigration to Liberia . Upwards of 6000 persons were in this category , most
, of whom , and their descendants , have since become valuable and
useful citizens of this little state . They have been changed , as
120 The Republic Of Liberia—
120 THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA—
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/48/
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