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skill, and before dark they would be dead and many miles astern of us. Never did I see a race of people have so little hold on life. They did not fear deaththe living, eating, laughing, and chatting over the dying and the dead as merrily as ever. They, however, showed a decided antipathy to touch a corpse, and even when any one of their number happened to have a convulsion, they would not come near him or her, a superstitious fear would seem to seize them, and they would cheerfully permit the patients to die rather than touch them, even in administering remedies. Their idea is, I believe, that the devil is in those who have fits.

"I had the forward part of the between-decks used for a hospital, where I usually had, daily, from thirty to forty patients. They were subject to all the diseases flesh is heir to,' of which those most prevalent were dysentery and pulmonary affections; and, although the number of deaths averaged one daily, still, I must say, that three-fourths of those who died came on board, at Key West, beyond medical skill, and it was only a question of time with them.The following are the diseases which, as far as I was able to diagnose, prevailed, viz: diarrhea, dysentery, pneumonia, peri-carditis, mumps, opthalmia, scabies, scurvy, angina-pectoris, syphilis, colds, costiveness, worms, hemorrhages, wounds, ulcers, rheumatism, laryingitis, consumptions, hydrothorac, chorea, convulsions, cholera-morbus, neuralgia, ascites, jaundice, insanity, dislocations, debility, &c., &c.

"I found them to take the medicines as willingly and readily as the nurse faithfully administered it. I kept those sick, with any contagious disease, strictly under my eye, and, by usually conquering it in the offset, prevented the infection from spreading through our crowded ships. Out of the number of deaths two occurred by accident, viz: falling backwards down the hatchway steps, breaking their necks; and one, a man, who jumped overboard at night, he being partially insane.

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"The total number of deaths on board, from the day we left Key West, July the 19th, to the day of our arrival at Sinou, September 6th, was 46, viz: 36 men, 5 women, 4 boys and 1 girl. We delivered, at Sinou, 230 men, 81 women, 15 boys and 11 girls. "We arrived at Monrovia on Sunday evening, September the 2d, 46 days from Key West, and anchored just astern of the "South Shore," which also arrived there that evening. I went ashore the next morning, and had the pleasure of meeting the Rev. Mr. Seys, the United States Government agent for recaptured Africans in Liberia; Dr. Roberts, the Society's physician at Monrovia, and Mr. Dennis, its agent, with all of whom I was much pleased, as also the appearance of Monrovia, of which I had heard so much. The United States Government's special agent, Doctor McCalla, and myself, called upon the President of the Republic, S. A. Benson, Esq. He received us very politely, and we passed some time with him in an agreeable conversation. We dined at Dr. Roberts' this day, and I must say, I would not wish to see a nicer table spread, or enjoy more sincere and polite hospitality, than was shown us by the Doctor and his wife.

"On the next afternoon we received on board the Rev. Mr. Seys, when we weighed anchor and sailed for our destined port, Sinou, about 140 miles south of Monrovia. We arrived there on Wednesday, September 5th, at dark, and began, early the next morning, to disembark the passengers and to land the cargo, all of which was' easily done in fourteen days.

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"The Africans were landed and soon temporarily housed, comfortable and happy, by the Society's agent, B. A. Payne, Esq., who, I am glad to say, worked assiduously, day and night, both for the welfare of the recaptives and the interests of the Society he so worthily represents. He was assisted by Dr. Snowden, the Society's physician at Sinou, who, from his good judgment and polite attention, seems also well fitted for his place in the Society's confidence ; and, with pleasure, I add my most favorable testimony in their behalf.

“I visited the receptacles at Sinou, and was much pleased with their apparent prosperous management, as also the good attention paid, everywhere, to the comfort of the recaptives.

"I took particular pains to make inquiries with respect to the recaptives returned from the Echo, and am happy to say, that the statement and inference,

stated in the letters of the 9th June, referred to you, are totally false, since I have the assurance of the Rev. Mr. Seys, Mr. Payne, and of others, that every one of the 200 landed at Monrovia were apprenticed or apportioned out, and can in a moment be accounted for, even to the graves and registry of those who are dead, and that not one of them could have possibly been sold to slavers again. "I could not gain much interesting information as to how and when those of our cargo were captured and sold. The amount of it was, they were captured by some of the natives of their own country and sold to the King of Dahomey, who sold them to the slavers. The recaptive to whom I spoke, through an interpreter, said he was carrying a letter from some one in Paw Paw,' when he was suddenly seized up and unceremoniously sent down to Whydah,' on the coast, and confined in a large house with many more. He said they kept bringing others in, day and night, and when the vessel came which took the cargo away, of which he was one, he left many more in the house, and the King's son was daily expecting another vessel for them. In buying and selling them, they ruthlessly divided families and relatives, though, oftentimes, if one or two of a family were healthy and fine-looking, the slaver generally bought the whole family.'

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APPEAL FOR THE CONGOES,

BY MRS. SEYS,

Long engaged in the Missionary Work in Liberia.

I am not apt to intrude myself into public notice, nor wont to have my name appear in the journals of the day; yet, thrown as I have been within the last few months, in the midst of scenes the most exciting, the most heartrending, calling out all the finer feelings of our nature, appealing to the inner soul of the mother, the wife, the philanthropist, the Christian, the woman, I dare not hold my peace, nor resist the conviction urged upon me, that I ought to ask the aid of my country-women to ameliorate human suffering and dry the tear of wretchedness and woe.

My husband, who was appointed, for the second time, United States Agent for Liberated Africans, and left our happy home, in 1858, to join the recaptives of the Echo, in this place, and take care of them, arrived here in December of that year. Subsequent events unexpectedly thrust upon him the duties of another very responsible office under his government, and in December, 1859, I came once more to Liberia and joined him in his work. I had been absent eighteen years. It occurred to me to make an effort to do some good while I was here again, so strangely providential. I obtained the large dining-room in the spacious receptacle of the American Colonization Society; President Benson gave me some books, Bishop Burns also; Mr. Dennis, the agent of the American Colonization Society, gave me slates and pencils; and in March I opened a school, with the aid of a young colored minister, Rev. James Thompson, and met ninety children the first day, most of them born in Liberia. Our number increased to one hundred and twelve, varying during the rainy season until the 21st of August, when we met for the last time. That very day a recaptured slaver, with six hundred and sixteen emaciated

Africans, naked, and sick, and dying, was brought in. The next day another prize with eight hundred and sixty-seven, since then another with six hundred and ninety, and yet another with six hundred and sixteen.

I have witnessed their sufferings. As the sick and dying would be passing my place of board, carried on litters to the houses rented by my husband for them, I have held the cup of water to their famished lips, I have watched their intense anxiety not to be separated-those of the same family-when they were to be distributed among the citizens of Liberia; and I have known of the recognition of kindred ones meeting from the various prizes, who, when torn from their country by the cruel slaver, little thought of meeting again, and meeting too in a free and happy home.

Mr. Seys is doing the very best he can with these thousands of poor creatures; but it is difficult work. We cannot even get material for the clothing of these poor naked savages in so small a community as this. This, however, is not the point to which I would call, and urge most earnestly, your attention. It is the education of these hundreds, nay, thousands of poor Congoes. At the end of the year after their arrival here the United States Government will make no more provision for them; they will be thrown altogether upon the Liberian Government and the Liberian people. What may we expect when twice or three times as many Congo children, untaught, ignorant, and vicious, are thrown among the former. Either the youth of Liberia must elevate the Congoes, or the Congoes must debase and bring down to their own level the children and youth of Liberia-children of those whom I knew years ago, many of whom have passed to their reward. This great evil must not be. I call upon all that is good, and virtuous, and noble, in the hearts of the Christian women of America, to say, "It shall not be !"

Liberia is the only home under the sun-the only free home for these liberated Africans-saved by our glorious country from bondage for life. But, if they come here by thousands, and no provision made for their mental and moral culture, they must prove a curse to Liberia instead of a blessing, and, saving a nominal freedom, be still the slaves of ignorance and vice. Something must be done, and I respectfully urge upon my Christian friends-those of my own sex in America that they act in this thing. Can there be anywhere a more inviting missionary field? May we not expect a large and abundant harvest from its immediate, faithful, persevering culture? Think of these things and act; act in accordance with the throbbings and burning sympathies of American hearts, proverbial for their ready, prompt action in time of need.

Let me close by asking, can anything be done to help us in the way of clothing? Two suits of clothes, we presume, the American Government will allow; but what is that? The children could hardly be expected to attend school and keep clean and tidy with so scanty a supply of clothing in this hot climate. Can we be helped? My appeal is with you. May that great God, who has made us to differ, and blessed us with nativity in Christian lands, given us Christian pa

rents, and all the untold blessings of His providence and grace; give us also hearts to feel for these wretched outcasts thus thrown upon our charity.

I am, with the greatest respect, yours affectionately,

MONROVIA, Nov. 27, 1860.

ANN SEYS.

ENGLISH MOVEMENTS FOR AFRICA.

On Tuesday the eighth of February, a deputation of members of the Council and Executive Committee of the African Aid Society, and of other gentlemen sympathizing in its objects, waited upon Lord Palmerston for the purpose of presenting memorials for the appointment of a High Commissioner to Dahomey, to treat with him for the suppression of the slave-trade in his dominions. Many Religious and Benevolent Societies were represented at this meeting. Lord A. J. Churchill read the memorial, which set forth that a subsidy might be offered to the King of Dahomey as an inducement to discontinue the slave trade, and that this amount would be saved by a corresponding diminution in the cost of the African squadron. His lordship referred to the atrocious sacrifices offered by this king to the manes of his ancestors, and insisted that to him solely was the continuance of the slave trade in the Bight of Benin owing. Could this be, the cotton planting emigrants, which the African Aid Society was about to introduce from America, would soon make that country of immense importance.

Mr. Arthur Albright spoke of the unanimity of friendly sentiment in Birmingham, towards the Society. He represented Abbeokuta and Yoruba as having 800,000 square miles of cotton-growing country. Mr. Clegg, of Manchester, observed, that while a persistent action, begun by him in 1850, in Abbeokuta, had produced 240 pounds of cotton in 1851 and 1852, which was all that could be got by the greatest efforts, it had advanced in 1857 to 1800 bales, and in 1859, to 3370; but the unfortunate activity of the King of Dahomey was now reducing it, instead of its reaching 20,000 bales, in 1860, as it would have done but for the discouragements and impediments his efforts created.

Lord Alfred Churchill urged upon Lord John Russell the importance of appointing an accredited agent, at Abbeokuta, to give protection to emigrants who might go there. Lord John Russell ́expressed his concurrence in the general observations that had been made, and said, that if the appointment of a consul, at Abbeokuta, would promote the object the deputation had in view, he would look into the subject, and would make the appointment if he could, especially if he thought it would, in the slightest degree, tend to extinguish the slave trade.

After some further discussion,

Lord Palmerston said that he received the deputation with great pleasure, because he felt fully the importance of the subject on which they had come to him, and because he was glad to find the subject taken up by so influential a body as that represented by the deputation. The first question related to the supply of cotton. It was evident that from America it was precarious, yet our manufacturers had relied entirely upon that one source. He had long thought that the coast of Africa would, if proper encouragement were given, be able to supply as much cotton as we could want. But in order that this should be we must begin by extirpating the slave-trade. Many people imagined that lawful commerce would extinguish the slave-trade, but the reverse was the fact; slave-trade extinguishes lawful commerce, and to have lawful commerce we must put an end to slave-trade. The chiefs on the African coast derive direct profit by selling slaves, and only an indirect profit from lawful trade, and they have therefore a tendency in favor of slave-trade, but they do not sell their own people, but make war on their neighbors to take prisoners, whom they sell. Much had been accomplished towards the suppression of the slave-trade. The slave-trade to Brazil had ceased; 60,000 or 70,000 slaves used to be landed in Brazil, and each of those slaves represented at least two more, victims of the violence committed in Africa, and of the miseries of the inland journey and the sea passage. The Government needed all the support which Associations such as this could give it, in laboring to accomplish completely the extinction of the remaining slave-trade; and if that were done, an immense supply of cotton, as well as of other valuable commodities, would be obtained from Africa. Lord John Russell entertained the same feelings as himself upon this subject, and he was sure that Lord John would favorably consider any practical suggestion, which the deputation might make to him on the matters on which they had now dilated.

WHEREFORE DOUBT?

Considering the origin, history, and progress of Liberia, its present character, condition, and prospects, why should any friend of this Society, at the North or the South, stand in doubt of the sure and rapidly growing beneficence of the scheme of African Colonization? May we not appeal to all such friends, and point them to the evidences of the Divine favor both to Liberia and Africa generally, and invite them to aid us with the great instrumentalities and agencies for civilization already set in operation on the African If forces repel our free colored people from this country, they feel the new, multiplying, and powerful attractions inviting their destiny to Africa. Providence has clearly selected these des-. cendants of Africa as His messengers of instruction, love, and

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