Show 1 r JOHN BULLS LIBERIAN RIAN GRAB i r Great Britain lies has been Men poaching i 4 H F again This time it is la i Liberia that suf set suffers sufi i fers and arni it is confidently asserted as that tbt 1 J the American recently ap appointed apt I IJ J t pointed to LAquire Into thc tho th matter w will willi ill t make a report re ort which will create a sen seu sent seni j i i 4 i t 1 I ia ii S In the th States Stat and at Ute the same time thue be very ery unpalatable to th the British h government The commission found proof that the tho boundary line be between teen tween Sierra Leone ne and Liberia had been moved by the British miles beyond Its legal location and that tha the colonial authorities had assumed complete sovereignty in a region com corn comprising comprisIng more than aoe square miles of ot the most fertile land In Liberia The I colonial troops LOOpS forced the Liberian sol aol soldiers soldiers diers out gradually and then ousted the district commissioner and the cus cue customs customs toms collector It Is said that the French who whose e possessions form the re remaining remaining land boundary of or Liberia are preparing to imitate the British In the matter of or territorial encroachments ments upon the tha negro republic but in view of the forthcoming report of the Ameri American AmerIcan can commission It is probable they will wll hold oft off 0 until they see ee how the British come out outA outA outA A dispatch dt patch front from Freetown Africa says MYS it Is not believed there that any grave diplomatic complication will arise when the report of or the com commission mission is made public It being tacitly understood that the British government upon proof of the encroachment being presented pre will wilt lay the blame upon the tM colonial of officials officials and recede with as good grace as possible k Liberia was founded by b the American Amerlean Colonisation society which was founded in hr 1811 at Princeton N J and had as its object the settling in Africa of freed freedmen freedmen freedmen men and recaptured slaves Several thousand negroes have been sent to the country since that time but few In number when compared with the na natives tives thes The colony was originally gov governed governed governed in part by the American society but Great Britain claimed that Liberia I had no existence as a nation and there therefore therefore therefore fore could not levy Import duties on the goods of British traders so the direr directors tors tOM of the society surrendered their powers and advised the colony to de declare declare clare dare itself an independent nation This was wu done July 36 16 ii 1847 The Idea of immigrating to Africa has never been popular with the negroes of the United States since the emancipation tion ties proclamation by b Abraham Lincoln and very ery few of ot them have bave crossed the ocean in search serch of a home In the land landof landof landof of their ancestors consequently the pop population population of Liberia consists mainly of pagan paean and Mohammedan aborigines Their T lr number is variously estimated at from l to to SOO Of or the col colonists 11 and their descendants there are probably SNO The are the most moet gifted and intelligent of or the in inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants habitants They are followers of Mo hornet homet and a road read and write the Arabic language e and their own with equal fa facility duty They are said to be an extreme extremely ly y fine line race of people and their women are often otten finely formed and beautiful n They despise the American Liberian because of his hi former slavery and take great pride in the fact that they have always been free freeLI Liberia LI has been a problem for the United States for or some years Being in ina Ina Ina a measure sure responsible for tor its existence all Americans feel In duty bound to pro protect teet the black republic from aggression lon though hough the results so far achieved have been very disappointing It is probable probable probable able representation will wilt be made to Great Britain upon receipt of the report of the American commission c n and the territory taken restored Whether Wh her the Liberian republic will exist under pres pros present present ent sot conditions for Cor any considerable length of time however is very doubt doubtfuL fill fuL ul |