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Light On Liberia's War

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Day
31
Month
December
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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The friends of African colonization inet last evening to listen to a presentment of the claims of the American Colonizatioji Society upon the zoal and niary support of philanthropists. The Bev. Dr. John Orcutt described the late war between the Liberians and the natives, from imperfect accounts of which he opponents of colonization are endeavoring to prove the lapse of the colonized negroos toward bai'barism. The war, he said, is a question of the title of Liberia to the territory j tuting the County of Maryland, the sowthernmost colony. That county, once independent of .Liberia, was lately ar.nexed, but the natives are unwilling lo submittothe trade restrictions of j toms officials. They claim the right of free trade on the ground of prior possession of the territory, and on that issue they went to war. Between September i and O'ct. 15 oight battles were fought. Six of them were almost bloodless, and resiilted in victory for the Liberian army, which had Cape Palmas for its base of supplies, and having fought the earliest struggle far inland, fought each succeeding ono a day's march nearer its base, despite its victories. The last victoryleft the Liberians 1,100 strong, [ toned in Cape Palmas, where they lay for a month, while tüe uative forces were repairing their defeats iu Tubinan Town, four müea out. One Gen. Crawford, of tke Liberians, suggested a night atUck upon the native forces, but to this Gen. Gardner, the Conimander-in-Chief, did not consent, as ho seemed content with the glory of reporting every morning that his army i had not been attacked on the previoua night. At the end of a nionth, however, a forward movement was ordered. The nativos were attacked near Tubman Town, and the Liberians were badly beatón, after losing seventy-nine men killed and wounded. They withdrew again to Cape Pal maft, leaving a small j foroe in the defenses of Tubman Town. The latter was attacked by a strong body of natives, but the assailauta were haudsomely repulsed after a protructed bftttle, in whioh few or none were hurt. That bloodless contest ended the war in

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