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Liberia

Liberia image
Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

One Mr. Cornh. a colored man, hu been to Liberia, staid there eighteen daj&, and ispublishingan nccountoftheColony in the eastern papers. Laziness, pride and nrristocracy seem to bo as abundant there as in olden countries. An ex change quotes him as saying that "every family has as many natives as they can maintain j these perform all the laborioua work ; this has a tendency to make tho citizens very aristocratie and indoUnt." "Persons coming here without mean sufficient to givethemselves a start, gatt. crallyfarc pretty badly." "Agrieuiture is much neglected in the othcr setticments : the pcoplc areforced to come herc t&ohtai the necessaries of Ufe." You would be astonished if you could only seo hor readily goods of eve-ry descripüon scll here, especia lly Provisión, such as flour, pork, beef, hanrjs, buiter, sugar, lard, mackcrel, choese, raisins, saleratiyi, &g, Groceries, af all kinds, are in great de mand." "It is oonsidered degradinj[ fby any American man to do any sort of lnhar, except he be a mechanic. Nativc labor is obtained verychai;p. ClothingisveTy scarce here ; there is not a taHor jn ík place.