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Excerpt from The Fifteenth Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States: With an Appendix
I am aware, that the partial failure-of the establishment at Sierra Leone may be quoted in opposition to these encouraging views. But it must not be forgotten, that Sierra Leone is an establishment, totally di?'erent in its origin and character from Liberia. It is formed from the crews of the recaptured slave ships, helpless savages ofa hundred different tribes, thrown, without preparation, upon the coast, and without any principle of order or self-government, subjected to all the evils of a remote and neglected military establishment. The progress that has been made at Liberia is, on the contrary, all that could have been hoped. A tract of coast two hundred miles North and South, and twenty or thirty East and West; a population of two thousand emigrants, and several thousands of the native tribes who have voluntarily sought the protection of the Colo ny; with schools and churches, and all the institutions of civilized life, - a great state of prosperity and every encouraging prospect, - this surely is not slow progress for ten years.
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