Liberia

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Excerpt from Liberia: The U. S. Navy in Connection With the Foundation, Growth and Prosperity of the Republic of Liberia, An Address Delivered Before the American Colonization Society Gentlemen: It is not inappropriate to this occasion that an officer of the United States navy should address your honorable society, and although your committee might easily have chosen a more worthy representative of that branch of the public service, they could have found none more sincerely interested in your cause, or more deeply impressed with its importance. From the first disastrous effort in 1819 to colonize the negroes from the United States, at Sherbro', up to the present time, the navy has contributed, with sword and pen, to advance the interests and protect the rights of the Americo-Africans. In that year (1819) the United States ship Cyane convoyed to Africa, the Elizabeth, the first emigrant ship, the Mayflower of these new pilgrims, and Lieutenant Townsend lost his life in the duty incidental to landing them. The inexorable march of time, however, has placed upon the roll of the distinguished dead, most of those officers whose words and deeds contributed so much to the founding of the Republic of Liberia. First among these, and almost the first in the hearts and memories of his naval brethren, stands the name of Stockton. In 1821, Lieutenant Stockton took command of the Alligator, a vessel sent out by the United States Government at the earnest solicitation of Justice Bushrod Washington, then president of this society, and Francis S. Key, one of its managers, for the express purpose of selecting a site on the western coast of Africa, better adapted to the purposes of colonization than Sherbro', a place notoriously unhealthy, and in many respects undesirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.