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120 different towns and settlements, with brick, and stone, and frame dwellings; have cleared thousands of acres of lands, and are exporting, as the produce thereof, sugar and coffee to foreign lands; whose merchants are the owners of 40 vessels, engaged in commerce, manned and officered by their own citizens; and who have demonstrated their moral strength and the political capacity of the nation, by the reception in less than I8 months—nd that without any disturbance, without any disorgianization, but bv the turning it into an element of strength and advantage—by the reception, into the bosom of the State, of 5,000 heathen captives rescued, in nakedness and barbarism, by the cruisers of your own nation, from cruel slavers! I do not think I can exaggerate the importance of the Republic of Liberia. There are two or three facts of special importance, which I feel I cannot do otherwise than present in bold relief. One of these is, the fact that this little nation, of only 15,000 civilized black Americans has, during some 20 or 30 years, held under control nigh a half a million of bold and warlike heathen, and completely interdicted their participation in the slave-trade. Second, that although Liberia is one of the smallest of West African colonies, and its settlements are scattered along some 600 miles of coast; yet we are the only manufacturers of sugar and of bricks; we are the only ones who have saw-mills, and cut large quantities of lumber. And ee present the singular fact, that is that although we are the least of all the colonies on the coast in numbers; yet from the borders of the desert, to the Cape of Good Hope,