many places on the Missouri in America. But beyond seven miles the country becames high and rolling, on both banks, affording good water and healthful drainage. The river is most densely populated. The whole district is high and healthy. Fine brick houses appear all along the stream. The settlers seem to be thrifty and happy. I have nowhere else seen a place on earth so well fitted for the hopeful development of the colored man, as Liberia. A general remark to me by the colonists was, ‘This, Sir, is a great country for darkies.'"[1]
We must here introduce an extract from a stirring address made by the colonists of Cape Palmas to their colored brethren in the United States. "We wish," say they, "to be candid It is not every man that we can honestly advise Or desire to come to this country. To those who are contented to live and educate their children as house servants and lacqueys, we would say, stay where you are: here we have no masters to employ you. To the indolent, heedless, and slothful, we would say, tarry among the flesh-pots of Egypt: here we get our bread by the sweat of our brow. To drunkards and rioters we would say, come not to us: you never can become naturalized in a land where there are no grog-shops, and where temperance and order is the motto. To the timorous and suspicious we would say, stay where you have protectors: here we protect ourselves. But to the industrious, enterprising, and patriotic, of whatever occupation or enterprise — the mechanic, the merchant, the farmer, and especially the latter, we would counsel, advise, and
- ↑ New York Herald, of Dec. 11, 1858.
