Even now there are signs that new markets are needed by our manufacturers and for our laborers. and it is suggested that it is by no means too soon to make available. by exploration of the interior of Liberia. the opening to new markets that philanthropy has afforded since 1821. There is in the interior of Liberia a fertile and thickly inhabited country. which can be brought into closer communication with the coast liue of the republic extending from the British colony of Sierra Leone to the Rio San Pedro. east oi Cape Palmas. a distance of between four and five hundred miles. It is to this country extending northwardly to the Niger at Timbuetoo. and including the headwaters of that great river. that Liberia affords an access. the advantages of which nrc peculiar to the United States. not by virtue of any treaty stipulation. but through the natural sympathy of the Liberian people. to whom the United States is the mother country to which they are to look for that increase of population which is alone wanting to the development of their power. ani which emigration from this country can alone supply. Apart. however. from the commercial view of the subject. your memorialists respectfully suggest that the benefit that would accrue to Liberia should. of itself. be more than sufficient to induce Congress to authorize the exploration in question. From the beginning. the feeling between the United States and the people of Liberia and their government has been that of sympathy and consideration. dating back from the time when Mr.
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