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If one African can be made intelligent , virtuous , and refined , the reproach of the Negrp ceases . If one African state can , be made civilized and ftee , the question of Slavery is settled for ever .
'The , experiment : has been made ; the issues are known . The philanthropists of the wdrld fix their eyes on Liberia and are satisfied . They are calling to one another from the shores of either continent , " Yes , the question of Slavery is settled for ever , " The North Americaji Colonization Society , with the benevolent view of ascertaining the capacity of the Negro race for enjoying the privileges of
humanity , took measures , a few years since , for founding a colony of free Blacks on the western coast of Africa . In December , 1821 , the settlement of Monrovia , on the banks of the Montserado , and a short distance from the promontory of that name , was first purchased and colonized with free Negroes , voluntarily conveyed from America , The country * was then so thickly wooded as to be almost impenetrable ; the climate proved , as usual ,
fatal to nearly all the White agents who accompanied the colonists , and to many of the settlers themselves ; difficulties arose from the jealousy of the natives on all sides , and the clearing and building went on slowly and interruptedly . Before the houses were finished , and when the provisions were nearly exhausted , the rainy season commenced , and the greater number of the survivors , quite discouraged , repaired to Sierra Leone , which lies a few hundred miles north of the original settlement *
In August , a reinforcement from America having arrived , business was resumed , but was again laid aside for the purpose of organizing the means of defence against the hostility of the natives . Repeated attacks of an army of 900 natives upon thirty-five settlers were repulsed by means of the dexterity of the Americans in the use of the few fire-arms they possessed : and in the course of the winter a treaty of peace was concluded , through the intervention of the government of Sierra Leone , and of the commanders of various vessels which visited the coast . From this time the difficulties
of the colonists appear to have been on the decrease , as reinforcements of men and provision * arrived at intervals , and the soil repaid , at an accelerated rate , the labour which had been spent upon it . At present , the state of the colony is flourishing ia a very bigb degree ; and the causes and extent of it ** prosperity are worth ascertaining .
The state of Liberia , extending upwards of 150 miles along the coast , contains large tracts of fertile land , every acre of which has been obtained by purchase or treaty . Cotton , coffee , indigo , and the sugar-cane , are the spontaneous productions of the forests . Rice , Indian and Guinea corn , millet , and a great variety of fruits and vegetables , may be cultivated to any extent . Cattle , swine , fowls , ducks , goats , and sheep , thrive , while they require no other care than to keep them from straying . Besides timber ,
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LIBERIA .
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( 7 & 8 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 758, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/34/
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