Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The African Repository, 1866, Vol. 42: Published Monthly by the American Colonization Society
The feelings of some of the natives who had surrendered them selves to Liberian authority, became, under the guidance of the ma rauding outlaws, so embittered against the colony that they more than once boldly avowed their hostile sentiments, and professed utter indifference to the laws of Liberia. This, together with the fact that every once and awhile slavers would locate themselves, erect barracoons and purchase slaves on Liberian territory under the coun tenance and protection of aboriginal chiefs, rendered several wars (f) against the latter necessary in order to convince them that Liberians had power to compel them to obedience. The last war of this char acter was carried to N ew-cess in 1849, immediately after the in dependence of Liberia had been recognized by England and France. The condign punishment in?icted upon the slavers by that military expedition, the regular cruising of the Liberian government schooner Lark, and the scattering of settlements at various points, have en tirely driven away the slavers from the Liberian coast. The country in consequence has enjoyed a grateful repose, and the people have been peaceably prosecuting a legitimate tra?ic both with Liberians and foreigners.
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