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    of an inexhaustible variety and abundance , there are good building stone , shells for lime , and clay for bricks . The exports of the colony , consisting of rice , palm-oil , ivory , tortoise-shell , dye-woods , gold , hides , wax , and coffee , bring in return the products and manufactures of the four quarters of the world . The climate , though unhealthy to all Whites , seems to suit the Negro settlers very well . Those who arrive from Georgia , the Carolinas , and the southern parts of Virginia , require rio seasoning . Those from the

    northern states usually have the fever within a month of their landing , but not dangerously ; and the bills of mortality shew a less proportion of deaths than those of Baltimore , Philadelphia , or New York . The heat is intense , but the land is free from swamp , and consists of a rich alluvial soil . Here are external resources in abundance ; but what would bo all these means of living , —the climate , the rich and varied productions , the materials for food ,, for shelter , for comfort and luxury at home , for the extension of power abroad , —if the inhabitants were what it was so lately the fashion to represent their race , stupid , barbarous , brutish , uirimpressible ? What are

    these men , this degraded race whom it is said to be useless to emancipate , because God has decreed them to be for ever unfit for the enjoyment of freedom ? Do they lie all day under their plantains , satisfied with indolence and sensuality ? Do they naturally hate civilization , and reject or prove themselves incapable of enlightenment ? What are the facts ?

    There are eight settlements or townships in Liberia , all more or less engaged in commerce , of which Monrovia is the chief . This town consists of about ninety dwelling-houses and stores , two places of worship , and a court-house . Many of the dwellings are handsome and convenient , and all of them comfortable . Its harbour is seldom clear of European and American shipping , and the bustle of its streets shews something of the activity

    of the smaller sea-ports of the United States . Mechanics , of nearly every trade , are carrying on their occupations , encouraged by the receipt of constant and good wages . There are numerous public buildings , fortifications , and school-houses , and not a child or youth in the colony is unprovided with appropriate means of instruction . There is a public library of 1200 volumes , and a printing-press , which issues , periodically , a newspaper ,

    called the Liberia Herald . All the offices , except those of chief magistrate and physician , are filled by Negroes , and as the settlement is designed for the benefit of their race , no Whites are allowed to pursue any trade or mechanical business . The colonial secretary , collector of customs , surveyor , a ' nd constables are appointed by the American agent ; the offices of vice-agent , sheriff , treasurer , and those of all other civil departments , are elective .

    The commerce of the colony is rapidly increasing , as well with the interior as with the United States and foreign countries . The exports are not less than 50 , 000 dollars per annum ; and those engaged in commercial pursuits are enterprising , judicious , and successful in their adventures . AH can do well who devote their labour and skill steadily to any regular occu-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 759, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/35/