these two
tribes will have none of the inhabitants stolen.' Do the various
African tribes never make reprisals? How happens it then, that the
slave trade, and the whole business of man-stealing has not been long
since suppressed?

'On one hundred leagues of the African coast,' says Mr. B., 'it is
already to a great degree suppressed' by the operation of the
colonization societies and their colonies. To this the Emancipator
says, 'These statements are far, very far from true, and we can
account for them only on the ground of "unpardonable ignorance, or a
purpose to mislead." Again and again have we been assured, and on
colonial colonization authority too, that the trade still goes on in
the vicinity of the colony as briskly as ever, nay, that it is even
prosecuted within the limits of the colony, and in sight of Monrovia
itself. Indeed, at this very moment the colony, instead of being able
to suppress or destroy the trade, is in danger of being itself
destroyed by it, and is sending out its appeal to this country for
help, praying that some "American vessels" may be sent upon the coast
to seize the traders, and to protect the colony. Let our friends in
this country and in England peruse the following extracts from the
Liberia Herald just received in this country, and then say what shall
be thought of the man or the men who, in the face of such and similar
testimony repeatedly received, can unblushingly pretend "that on one
hundred leagues of the African coast, the trade is already to a great
degree suppressed?"

Extracts from late Liberia papers, received at the office of the N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser:--

"_Slave Trade._--This nefarious traffic is again lifting its
horrid head in our vicinity, and increasing in a fearful
ratio. Within one hundred miles of the settlement, there are
at this very time, at least _four_ factories for the purchase
of slaves, and one of them not more than eighteen miles off!
The consequences are most severely felt by the colony. It is
now impossible to purchase rice, at any rate that would not
starve the most fortunate man. In our immediate vicinity, it
is reported, slavers have lately given the natives a musket
for four cross! the retail price of which, in the colony, is
six dollars! To the Spaniards, in view of a successful voyage,
the profits of which are so enormous, goods are of no value;
but it is far otherwise with us. The nativ