rapidly the principles of civilization and Christianity among the natives; to act as teachers and preachers, and helpers in making and executing the laws of the commonwealth. "It is clear we cannot exist if the British maintain the position assumed by the commodore, as we shall be exposed to incursions by every British trader that comes to the coast-to which if we dare oppose resistance, we shall feel the full vengeance of all-powerful England. "But until it be denied that we are men, They need also the means of pur-it will not be denied that we have certain chasing the remaining territory, lying within their extreme limits, as the only means of extending the influence of their government and the protection of their laws over the whole line of coast, and thus putting a stop to the slave trade along their borders, and compelling those who engage in lawful commerce to respect the laws and uphold the thority of the commonwealth. reference to this subject, the editor of the Liberia Herald, in the article from which we have already quoted, holds the following language: rights-among these the right to breathe God's free air-to purchase land from its rightful owners, to dig that land and eat its fruits-to govern ourselves on that land, and to adjust the conditions on which others shall come among us. These are altogether distinct, in our opinion at least, from international rights. The former are founded on the unavoidable wants of our common nature-that is, they are the gift of God, and therefore cannot be conferred by any people on another; the latter is founded on conventional agreement-the former is necessary to our existence, the latter not. tue. "It behooves us, therefore, to prove ourauselves worthy of these rights, by our inIndustry, perseverance, good order, and virforests and developing the rich resources By clearing away these primitive of the unreclaimed country; by recovering these semi-savage tribes around us from their barbarism, and tutoring them in the arts and manners of civilized and Christian life, we will exhibit a claim to be let alone which no people who have any respect for justice will dare to disregard." The world ought to come forward and nobly sustain men actuated by such a spirit as that! We ought to cheer their hearts, and encourage them in their arduous work of plant "The present position of the colony is one exceedingly perplexing and anomalous; and as if past annoyances, to which the colored man has been every where subjected, are not sufficient, foreigners are now weilding this anomaly greatly to our disadvantage. We have long seen the probability of this difficulty, but would not allow ourselves to believe we should be soon plunged into it. Professing, as the English do, so much philanthropy and so extended and high-toned benevolence, we hoped every ing a civilized state, suppressing the thing from them: but Commodore Jones's last letter to the Governor has dispelled the slave trade, establishing lawful comillusion, and warns us that we have most merce, imparting instruction in letto fear where once we had indulged the most pleasing expectations. His diplo- ters, the useful arts, and all the apmatic communication contains one sentence pliances of social life, to the native which we presume would find a place in a correspondence with no people on earth barbarous tribes, and endeavoring to except Liberians. It is a kind of genteel bring up their country and their race braggardism; of diplomatic gasconade over a prostrate victim from whom nothing is from the wilderness of their long to be apprehended. We have compared the style and spirit of this communication depression, and out from under the with the commodore's correspondence with dark eclipse of ages, and causing American commanders on this station, and we can find no escape from the conviction, her to take rank among the most that, when penning this letter, he kept favored nations, with honor on her distinctly before his eye the resources of the people he was addressing. brow and blessings in her hand! Men, actuated by such a spirit and || sist in hastening forward the wide governed by such principles, must and general triumph which we ansucceed. No earthly power can ticipate! hold them back. The struggle may be long-the labor arduous; but the triumph is sure, and the victory will be glorious! A little of encouragement now, some small assistance now, may be of vastly more benefit to them than the most full-hearted sympathy, and the most splendid liberality at some advanced period in their history. To what does duty now urge the friends of this enterprise and of the colored race? 1st. To act with confidence in the practicableness of the scheme of colonization. In view of what has actually been accomplished, there should be no distrust in regard to the adaptation of the enterprise to produce the most splendid results! The facts in the case are enough to enlighten the understanding and convince the reason of any man. Its beneficent aspects, and its saving influences, are demonstrable every where. There is, also, an inherent energy and vitality in Liberia itself which bids fair to live to a splendid manhood and a ripe old age. There is no power that can restrain its growth, short of some divine interposition. 2d. Duty calls upon all who understand this subject to make others alike sensible. A little effort on the part of the friends of the cause would diffuse knowledge and information all through the land. Our agents all tell us that the people need “indoctrinating;" that the publications of the Society ought to be circulated every where, and that the facts of the present position and future prospects of Liberia ought to be spread abroad and "kept continually before the people." And they all tell us, moreover, that when this is done, prejudice expires, opposition dies away, and the former enemies of the Society become its friends. This clearly indicates our duty in the premises. Men must understand the reasons for giving, before they will give of their substance to carry on any enterprise. 3dly. Duty calls upon us for enlarged contributions. Without this the work cannot be carried forward in a manner commensurate with the demands. The indispensable necessity of securing the territory, has diminished much from the amount of funds for the general objects of colonization. We were compelled These things should be fully be- not to send any expedition to Libelieved. Entire confidence in final ria with emigrants last spring, in success should take possession of order that we might husband our reevery heart. There should be no sources to secure the other importparalysis of despair-no doubting ant objects before us. But we must that every effort now made will as-send a vessel with emigrants this fall. We cannot longer delay it. || demands for funds, greatly enlarged, Some of the persons who want to go then, will revert back to hopeless bondage, if detained longer in their present condition. meets us on every hand. Oh that all our friends were impressed with a sense of the grandeur of the enterprise, and would bestow upon it that But we need not enumerate. The bounty it so richly deserves! Capture of the Spitfire. slaves, and was resold to Spanish We give below all the facts in re- || hoisting no flag and with the name lation to this vessel, of which we are on her stern erased. About thirty miles from Matanzas she landed 339 in possession. We anxiously await the result of the trial in Boston, to know whether justice can be done in such a case, even in the capital of New England. CAPTURE OF THE SPITFIRE.-The following letter is from an officer of the U. S. brig Truxtun, which captured the slaver now awaiting condemnation at Boston: U. S. BRIG TRUXTUN, March 29, 1845. Here we are, in tow of the British man-of-war steamer Ardent, bound into Sierra Leone with a prize. We received information, at Monrovia, that a schooner named the Spitfire, of New Orleans, was lying some few miles up the river Pongas, waiting for a cargo of slaves. owners. Of these facts we are certain, because the mate who was in her is now on board this vessel and has made oath to them. Having ascertained beyond a question that the same vessel, under another name and wearing our flag, had arrived upon the coast, we sailed for the Pongas and anchored off its mouth. Finding the British steamer at anchor there, the two vessels dispatched six boats, well armed and manned, all wearing the British flag. They met the Spitfire about fifty miles up the river, she hoisted the American flag for protection, and was instantly seized by our officers. In an hour after she was sailing down the river. No slaves were found on board, but 300 were confined in the barracoon, waiting for the rainy season, when they were to be taken on board. These slavers prefer the rainy season, as the winds are fresher then and they have a better chance of es Upon examining into the subject, we found that this same vessel was built in Baltimore and named the Caballero; and that in March, 1844, she made a voyage to this coast un-caping the men-of-war. der the American flag, to this same river Pongas; there she was transferred to a man named Faber, a Virginian and a notorious slave dealer, for $10,000. From his slave factory she took on board 346 negroes and sailed for the island of Cuba, The captain is now on board here, a prisoner, but of course allowed every privilege; his name is Flowrey; he is a citizen of New York, and has commanded many vessels from that city:-the Moro Castle and others. He seems a very quiet, respectable man, and is both master || sit down if his head is bent a little forward. Imagine three hundred and fifty men, women and children, confined for thirty-five days in such a place and in such a position! and owner of the schooner. He had also a Spanish captain on board. Twenty-six casks full of water were waiting to come on board. Her men are all ready to testify against her, and I do not see how she can escape condemnation. She is a very beautiful vessel of 100 tons burthen, and sails like a witch. If she is condemned we shall get little or nothing from her; with a miserably niggardly policy, our Government only allows captors one-half the value of a prize;-the British and all other governments give them the whole-a very poor conpensation for the suffering and disease always attendant on a boat expedition up these pestilential rivers. The loss of life attendant upon them is often dreadful. The British boats also brought down a prize, a Spanish brig, and the steamer is at this moment towing the Truxtun, the Truxtun's prize, and her own, at the rate of six miles an hour. We receive every possible attention and assistance from the British here; their squadron on the coast numbers now thirty vessels, many of them steamers, and is to be increased greatly soon. The slave trade is by their efforts vastly diminished, and the risk run by the slavers is every day increasing. The food allowed them is one pint of rice per day, and no more; a pint of water each is also given them daily; a few are occasionally allowed to come on deck for a little air, but not often; those who evince any disposition to rebel or make trouble, are confined in irons. The average cost of a prime negro, beween 20 and 30 years old, at the slave factory, seldom exceeds $15: at Cuba the same slave will sell for $400. Their value at the West Indies, however, has much diminished and still continues to diminish daily. No money is paid here for the negroes who are brought from the interior. Cloth, rum, muskets, cutlasses, powder, and such articles as are adapted to the wants and wishes of the natives, are given by the slave factor in exchange. It is extremely difficult to get up these rivers to the places where the slavers lie. The whole coast is intersected by innumerable rivers, with branches pouring into them from every quarter, and communicating with each other by narrow, circuitous, and very numerous creeks, bordered on each side with impenetrable thickets of mangroves. In these creeks, almost concealed by the trees, the vessels lie and often elude the strictest search. But when they have taken on board their living cargo and are getting out to sea, the British are very apt to seize them, except, alas, when they are protect It is difficult to see how 350 human beings could, by any possibility, be crammed into a vessel of less than a hundred tons; and when it is remembered how much even of this small space must be occupied by the officers and men of the vessel, and by the provisions and water necessary for the support of so many peo-ed by the banner of the United ple, you can form some idea of the sufferings of the blacks during their thirty-five days' passage to Cuba. The Spitfire is about one hundred feet long, and between decks there is just height enough for a man to States. Then the British, of course, have no authority to detain them. This vessel continues healthy. Nine names are on the sick list today, of which six are cases of fever. It will be recollected by our read and Devereux were detained and searched at this port, last season, previous to their departure for the coast, on suspicion that they were intended for the slave trade, but were at last allowed to depart because sufficient evidence to procure their condemnation could not be obtained. Faber, who owns the slave factory on the coast, went out as a passenger in the Manchester. Capt. Gordon, the commander and ostensible owner of the Manchester and Devereux, died recently of the coast fever, as did also Capt. Gordon of the Devereux. [From the (Boston) Mercantile Journal.] A SLAVER CAPTURED.-Schooner ers that the schooners Manchester Spitfire, (of New Orleans,) has arrived at this port a prize to the U. S. brig Truxtun, in command of Lieut. Washington Reid; Samuel Wilcox, midshipman. The Spitfire, Peter Flowrey, master, was seized in the Rio Pongo, coast of Africa, at the slave factory of Paul Faber, March 26, on suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade, by the boats of the U. S. brig Truxtun, in the charge of Lieut. Simon F. Blunt, co-operating with the boats of H. B. M. steamer Ardent, under the charge of Lieut. Johnson. The boats went along-side under English colors, and ordered the schooner to show her colors on the penalty of being seized as a pirate. The American ensign was then hoisted at her gaff, and the colors immediately shifted in the boats, and the schooner taken charge of, evidence having been lodged against her as having already made a successful trip from the same place to the island of Cuba, with 346 slaves, under the command of Capt. Gordon, lately in command of the Manchester, by Thomas Turner, who served in both vessels as Capt. G.'s mate. She was known by the name of Caballero, and was built in Baltimore, whence she sailed via New York, in 1842. She was afterwards sold, and her register returned to Baltimore. Her present crew also testified as to her intention of receiving slaves. Some of the Spitfire's crew were very troublesome on the passage, and two of them, a Spaniard and a negro, who quarrelled, were brought in ironed. Lieut. Reid found it necessary to use the utmost vigilance, and has not been undressed since he took command of the vessel. The prisoners were committed to the U. S. authorities, and the proper measures taken for their arraignment. The Spitfire is a clipper-built schooner of about 130 tons. She is flush on deck, has two small houses aft, one on each quarter, and a small trunk to the cabin. Her bulwarks are high for her size, and she has a tier of ports on each side, but no guns mounted. Outside she is painted a shade whiter than blue, and inside buff color. Her cabin, which has not accommodations for more than six white persons, we understand contained, at one time, fifty female slaves! [From the Boston Traveller.] reason Indictment of Captain Flowrey, of the schooner Spitfire, for a misdemeanor.-The grand jury of the U. S. Circuit Court, on Saturday returned a bill against Capt. Flowrey, of the slaver Spitfire, but not against the crew, there being no whatever for supposing that they knew of the object of the voyage when they shipped at New Orleans. Capt. Flowrey was arraigned in the U. S. Circuit Court this morning, but no day assigned for his trial. The bill found by the grand jury was for misdemeanor in fitting out the vessel with intent to carry slaves, and he was ordered to recognize |