MARYLAN D COLONIZATION JOURNAL. CONDUCTED BY JAMES HALL, GENERAL AGENT OF THE MARYLAND STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY. New Series. BALTIMORE, JULY, 1847. Vol. 4.-No. 1. "Nothing is more clearly written in the Book of Destiny, than the Emancipation of the Blacks; and it is equally certain that the two races will never live in a state of equal freedom under the same government, so insurmountable are the barriers which nature, habit and opinion have established between them." JEFFERSON. ADVICES FROM CAPE PALMAS BY THE LIBERIA PACKET. We have to apologise to our readers, and also to Gov. Russwurm, for the late appearance of his important despatches per the Packet, and we tender a statement of facts as the best apology; viz: they were in the possession of the President when our April No. went to press, and we forgot them when preparing the two subsequent Nos. Fortunately, however, they are of a general character, worth as much now as before, and will well repay the perusal. Our Colony. You have already been advised of the extension of our limits to the River Pedro, between Tahou and Drouen. Thus far the Union seems to work pretty well, and only two cases have come to our notice, where our influence was sought for and exerted. In the first, the Tabou river people robbed some Cape Palmas and Rocktown boys, who landed there from sea and refused to give up the spoils, alleging that their boys had been served in the same manner by our Cape people some years ago. "Retaliation, said they, was the custom of the country:" against this, I could only remind them of the bad effects it would have on their trade with us, and the recent treaty, they had signed. In the second, I was more successful. The Rocktowns caught four of the Grand Tabous, for the preceding palaver, under the impression that they were partakers of the spoil, and held them prisoners: one female, they fastened with a chain around her leg during the nights. When assured by me, through a special messenger, that they were not concerned, but strove all they could with the real robbers to give up the spoils; they immediately sent them to me, and I had the pleasure of forwarding them to their country. Words cannot portray the gratitude of the poor creatures, they would have kissed my feet-they could hardly be convinced that they were in safety in Cape P. native town. This was highly gratifying, as King Geo. Macauly of Grand Tabou had written to me, begging my influence to have his people released. The return of the captives excited quite a stir through the Tabou country, and the head King (a very aged person whom I did not see only by representatives at the grand palaver) has sent his thanks, and word also to King Freeman, that one of the 3 towns concerned was willing and ready to pay the "thief palaver." "We might depend on his making the other two towns also pay." The palaver is in a fair train of being settled. 1 VOL. 4 |