nts will ultimately be united in one Republic, and may be
considered as one, for all the purposes of this inquiry. The extent
of their united sea-coast is about 520 miles. The jurisdiction of
the Republic over the four hundred miles or more which it claims,
has been formally acknowledged by several of the leading powers of
Europe, and is questioned by none. To almost the whole of it, the
native title has been extinguished; the natives, however, still
occupying, as citizens, such portions of it as they need.

The civilized population of these governments, judging from the
census of 1843, and other information, is some 7,000 or 8,000. Of
the heathen population, no census has ever been taken; but it
probably exceeds 300,000.

The grade of Liberian civilization may be estimated from the fact,
that the people have formed a republican government, and so
administer it, as to secure the confidence of European governments
in its stability. The native tribes who have merged themselves in
the Republic, have all bound themselves to receive and encourage
teachers; and some of them have insisted on the insertion, in their
treaties of annexation, of pledges that teachers and other means of
civilization shall be furnished.

Our accounts of churches, clergy and schools are defective, but
show the following significant facts:

The clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Liberia are nearly
all Liberian citizens, serving as missionaries of the Methodist
Missionary Society in the United States. The last Report of that
Society gives the names of fifteen missionaries, having in charge
nine circuits, in which are 882 members in full communion, and 235
probationers; total, 1,117. They have 20 Sabbath Schools, with 114
officers and teachers, 810 scholars, and 507 volumes in their
libraries. They have a Manual Labor School and Female Academy. The
number of Day Schools is not reported; but seven of the
missionaries are reported as superintendents of schools, and the
same number have under their charge several "native towns," in some
of which there are schools. The late superintendent of the missions
writes:--

"It appears plain to my mind, that nothing can now retard the
progress of our missions in this land, unless it be the want of a
good high school, in