Its geographical position, in the first place, is objectionable, being located in the sixth degree of latitude North of the equator, in a district signally unhealthy, rendering it objectionable as a place of destination for the colored people of the United States.  We shall say nothing about other parts of the African coast, and the reasons for its location where it is:  it is enough for us to know the facts as they are, to justify an unqualified objection to Liberia.

In the second place, it originated in a deep laid scheme of the slaveholders of the country, to exterminate the free colored of the American continent; the origin being sufficient to justify us in impugning the motives.

Thirdly and lastly—­Liberia is not an Independent Republic:  in fact, it is not an independent nation at all; but a poor miserable mockery—­a burlesque on a government—­a pitiful dependency on the American Colonizationists, the Colonization Board at Washington city, in the District of Columbia, being the Executive and Government, and the principal man, called President, in Liberia, being the echo—­a mere parrot of Rev. Robert R. Gurley, Elliot Cresson, Esq., Governor Pinney, and other leaders of the Colonization scheme—­to do as they bid, and say what they tell him.  This we see in all of his doings.

Does he go to France and England, and enter into solemn treaties of an honorable recognition of the independence of his country; before his own nation has any knowledge of the result, this man called President, dispatches an official report to the Colonizationists of the United States, asking their gracious approval?  Does king Grando, or a party of fishermen besiege a village and murder some of the inhabitants, this same “President,” dispatches an official report to the American Colonization Board, asking for instructions—­who call an Executive Session of the Board, and immediately decide that war must be waged against the enemy, placing ten thousand dollars at his disposal—­and war actually declared in Liberia, by virtue of the instructions of the American Colonization Society.  A mockery of a government—­a disgrace to the office pretended to be held—­a parody on the position assumed.  Liberia in Africa, is a mere dependency of Southern slaveholders, and American Colonizationists, and unworthy of any respectful consideration from us.

What would be thought of the people of Hayti, and their heads of government, if their instructions emanated from the American Anti-Slavery Society, or the British Foreign Missionary Board?  Should they be respected at all as a nation?  Would they be worthy of it?  Certainly not.  We do not expect Liberia to be all that Hayti is; but we ask and expect of her, to have a decent respect for herself—­to endeavor to be freemen instead of voluntary slaves.  Liberia is no place for the colored freemen of the United States; and we dismiss the subject with a single remark