The administrations of Daniel Bashiel Warner (two terms, 1864-1867) and the earlier one of James Spriggs Payne (1868-1869) were comparatively uneventful.  Both of these men were Republicans, but Warner represented something of the shifting of political parties at the time.  At first a Republican, he went over to the Whig party devoted to the policy of preserving Liberia from white invasion.  Moved to distrust of English merchants, who delighted in defrauding the little republic, he established an important Ports-of-Entry Law in 1865, which it is hardly necessary to say was very unpopular with the foreigners.  Commerce was restricted to six ports and a circle six miles in diameter around each port.  On account of the Civil War and the hopes that emancipation held out to the Negroes in the United States, immigration from America ceased rapidly; but a company of 346 came from Barbadoes at this time.  The Liberian Government assisted these people with $4000, set apart for each man an allotment of twenty-five rather than the customary ten acres; the Colonization Society appropriated $10,000, and after a pleasant voyage of thirty-three days they arrived without the loss of a single life.  In the company was a little boy, Arthur Barclay, who was later to be known as the President of the Republic.  At the semi-centennial of the American Colonization Society held in Washington in January, 1867, it was shown that the Society and its auxiliaries had been directly responsible for the sending of more than 12,000 persons to Africa.  Of these 4541 had been born free, 344 had purchased their freedom, 5957 had been emancipated to go to Africa, and 1227 had been settled by the Maryland Society.  In addition, 5722 captured Africans had been sent to Liberia.  The need of adequate study of the interior having more and more impressed itself, Benjamin Anderson, an adventurous explorer, assisted with funds by a citizen of New York, in 1869 studied the country for two hundred miles from the coast.  He found the land constantly rising, and made his way to Musardu, the chief city of the western Mandingoes.  He summed up his work in his Narrative of a Journey to Musardo and made another journey of exploration in 1874.

Edward James Roye (1870-October 26, 1871), a Whig whose party was formed out of the elements of the old True Liberian party, attracts attention by reason of a notorious British loan to which further reference must be made.  Of the whole amount of L100,000 sums were wasted or misappropriated until it has been estimated that the country really reaped the benefit of little more than a quarter of the whole amount.  President Roye added to other difficulties by his seizure of a bank building belonging to an Industrial Society of the St. Paul’s River settlements, and by attempting by proclamation to lengthen his term of office.  Twice a constitutional amendment for lengthening the presidential term from two years to four had been considered and voted down.  Roye contested the