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Maryland State Archives Maryland Colonization Journal Collection MSA SC 4303 msa_sc4303_scm11070-0049 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
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MARYLAND COLONIZATION JOURNAL. 55
king to build a school-house, he being not only
willing to do this, but also to support tfie scholars
who may be instructi'd, at his own expense. I
learn also tram Mr. \Vil>on. who has lately visited
the town of Kay, distant about twenty-live miles,
in a north-east direction from Cape l'almas, and
never before visited by I white man, that i'eddah,
of that place, and kin? of the Uolobo country,
is anxious to have schools established amongst his
people. Thus the committee will perceive that
for some reason, what it is we know not, every
king within our range of thirty miles from Cape
Palmas, express a willingness to receive the mes-
sengers of salvation by Jesus Christ. An un-
bounded field opens itself to christian effort.
Thousands are hungering .arid dying, yet with
outstretched hands imploring those who in spiri-
tual privileges are in want of nothing, for the
•bread of life.' Oh, could christians at home
realize these things as those do who are Compelled
hourly to behold these poor miserable beings,
bow 'much more fervently would they pray, and
bow much more liberally would they give, to save
them from misery and death!
(From the New York Observer.)
Letter from the Governor of Bassa Cove, to the
Rev. Dr. Proudfit, Agent for the Colonization
Society of the City of New York.
Bassa Cove, Western Africa,
August 16th, 1837.
Rev. and Dear Sib :—We left Cape Henlopen
on Saturday morning, of the week we left Phila-
delphia, with a fair wind,—and after two or three
days of sea sickness, which nearly all of us expe-
rienced, we had a pleasant run of twenty-foe
days to the Cape de Verds, St. Jago. After slop-
ping about twenty-four hours to obtain a little
water, for which privilege the custom-house
required of the Captain some twenty-seven dol-
lars, we arrived at Monrovia July IStbj making
our voyage forty days from Cape llenlopen to
Cape Monsterado.
U'e found all in good health in Monrovia, but
in want of supplies. The Lieutenant Governor,
Williams, is well adapted, in my opinion, to his
office,
I found the colonists, who were destined for
Bassa Cove in a late expedition, had all landed at
Monrovia, and were being acclimated, and doing
tolerably well.
The copper coin I have received, for which an
order is sent. I send also, a specimen of Monro-
via paper money. At present, 1 can give no
opinion about a bank or paper money, unless
payable at home, as suggested by Mr. Buchanan ;
that plan would aid us much.
In one day after leaving Monrovia, which was
on the 3rd of August, we arrived al Bassa Cove;
in the morning following the night of our arrival,
we landed under a salute from our little guns on
board, and heavier artillery on shore. The mili-
tary men were out, and received us quite en mill-
taire,
I found Dr. McDowell well, and the colonists
generally ; the governor's bouse bnl partly finish-
ed, and the store empty. The carpenters are
engaged on the former, and as yon may judge.
the lalter being filled.
Agriculture is attended to better than heretofore,
the other day I saw a fine field of lice often acies.
Mr. More, a very respectable man, told me that
in a season of great scarcity, he supplied the
whole colony with vegetables from only one acre
of land ; so productive is the soil if wedl cultiva-
ted. The public will ask, why then, do the colo-
nist-: often sutler for the want of food ? We reply
that many of them are not industrious ; and with-
out labour we can live no where.
The society, they will allow me to say must be
particular in the selection of at least a majority of
the emigrants, or we shall advance but slowly in
carrying out the great objects of the colonization
society.
The gardens look well; here and there you see
a plantation with fruit. A hunch of cotton now
lies before me, which I took" from a tree in the
garden of one of the colonists. Bas.-.i Cove is a
most beautiful settlement ; Kdina equally so.
The government house is in a mn |