Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — SAILED FOR LIBERIA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAILED FOR LIBERIA.

Sixty-eight Colored Americans Emigrate to Africa. A shipload of colored people from the South, who were tired of Ameri-

ca, sailed from New York recently on the little bark Liberia. They were ' bound for Monrovia, the capital of the negro republic of Liberia, on the west coast o-f . Africa, and if their ship is not < wrecked they 'will live out the balance of their

lives on the soil from which their ancestors were dragged in chains. There were sixty-eight of these emigrants, frbm a dozen different sections in the South, and their departure may mark the beginning of an exodus of colored Americans to the African republic. In the party were people of all ages, from gray-headed men down to

little pickanninnies. About twenty of them were men, and of these fully a dozen were preachers. A s the ship lay in a slip in the East River, preraring for the voyage the' emigrants were

gathered around the deck in picturesque groups, says the New York Sun. Some of the men were ragged and barefooted, having already assumed the costume they expected to wear during the long voyage. Others wore the heavy shoes, the flannel shirts and big hats of the plantations.

The preachers were more formal in their manner of dress, wearing clerical tail-coats buttoned up to the chin, and there were several weather-beaten silk hats. The 'oldest and most dignified of the party was Rev. Robert McNeill,

of Georgia. He wore an enormous beaver of ancient style, and his dialect was that of the orange groves. Many of the emigrants had been

induced to leave thelrhomes in America by the lectures’ of Bishop Turner, who recently traveled through the South talking about- Liberia, and t,he opportunities which it presents for colored men. The Liberia Colonization Society gives twenty-five acres to every colored man who settles in the republic, and the land is said to be very fertile, producing three crops of coffee each year.

REV. ROBERT O’NEILL.

TYPE FROM GEORGIA

FROM FLORIDA.