p in mission
schools. And we have it in testimony, that the missions themselves
might be more efficient for good, if well supplied with teachers of
higher qualifications.

Here, then, we have a Republic of some 300,000 inhabitants, of whom
7,000 or 8,000 may be regarded as civilized, and the remainder as
having a right to expect, and a large part of them actually
expecting and demanding the means of civilization and Christianity.
We have,--supplying as well as we can by estimate, the numbers not
definitely given,--more than 2,000 communicants in Christian
churches, and more than 1,500 children in Sabbath Schools; some 40
day schools containing, exclusive of the Methodists, who are the
most numerous, and of whose numbers in school we have no report,
about 635 scholars. The whole number in day schools, therefore, is
probably not less than 1,200. We have the Alexander High School at
Monrovia, where instruction is given to some extent in the
classics; the English High School, at the same place, under Mr.
James; the Methodist Manual Labor School and Female Academy at
Millsburg; the Baptist Boarding School at Bexley; and the
Protestant Episcopal High School at Cape Palmas. These institutions
must furnish some students for a higher seminary, such as we
propose to establish; and such a population must need their labors
when educated.

However foreign to the designs of the writer of ever making that country
or any other out of America, his home; had this been done, and honorably
maintained, the Republic of Liberia would have met with words of
encouragement, not only from himself, an humble individual, but we dare
assert, from the leading spirits among, if not from the whole colored
population of the United States. Because they would have been willing to
overlook the circumstances under which they went there, so that in the
end, they were willing to take their stand as men, and thereby throw off
the degradation of slaves, still under the control of American
slave-holders, and American slave-ships. But in this, we were
disappointed--grievously disappointed, and proceed to show in short, our
objections to Liberia.

_Its geographical position_, in the first place, is objectionable,
being located in the _sixth degree_ of latitude North of the equator, in
a district signally unhealthy, rendering it objectionable as a place