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ITS PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES. 121
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Owing To The Recent Visit Of Mr. Benson,...
free nien , from the careless , listless beings they were in America , into the painstakingindustriousand energetic citizens of Liberia .
These people were earl , y taught , to govern themselves . The white governors sent out by the American Colonization Society had the
good sense to select the most respectable of the coloured people to aid in administering public affairs . In 1841 it -was resolved that
all in authority hereafter should be coloured persons . The second coloured President ( Stephen Allen Benson ) is a native of Maryland .
He was inaugurated for a fourth term of office for two years last January " Liberia . has every advantage of climateand of fertility of
, soil , and of variety of production , to make it a rich and _j _> _owerful nation . Every species of tropical produce thrives in this country .
No less than 123 specimens of the produce of the country are now at the International Exhibition , arranged under the heads of fibres ,
timber , cotton , coffee , sugar , oils , and miscellaneous . _. " For political and judicial purposes the Hepublic is divided into
four counties , which are further subdivided into townships . The townshiare about eight miles in extent . Each town is a
corporation , its ps affairs being managed by officers chosen by the inhabitants . Courts of monthly and quarterly sessions are held in each
county . The civil business of the county is administered by the four superintendents appointed by the President , with the advice
and consent of the Senate . The county system of government is capable of indefinite extension over new districts of territory
that may be acquired , giving all the advantage which local selfgovernment affords to the inhabitants , added to the conservative
and effective metropolitan governmental benefits of the central power of the entire Republic . the fifth white Presi
" Monrovia , ( so named after Mr . Monroe , - dent , ) the capital , is situated on Cape Mesurado , and has a population of more than 3000 souls . It has four riverswhich
afford facilities for navigable , intercourse with the interior , . Besides being the executive , judicial , and legislative seat of
government , it has schools , churches , missionary establishments , and a newspaper , called the Liberia Herald ' , dating back to 1826 ,
the year of its first publication . " A new college has just been completed on a piece of ground
of twenty acres , granted by the Government . The people of Boston , United Statesnot only furnished the funds for the building , but
wise have endowed also presented , it . The a library Government , a geolog have ical also cabinet granted , and 4 have , 000 other acres
-Roberts republic of land , , , is for of president which the support 1 , of 000 the of are college the in ' c . each ollege The of . Rev the The . Alexander four late counties President Crummell of , Mr the , .
33 . A ., of Queen ' s College , Cambridge , England , is the Professor and of Moral its Literature and Intellectual . The Philosop Rev . E . W y . Bly den _, the Princrpai lish Language of the
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Its Products And Resources. 121
ITS PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES . 121
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/49/
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