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was my oldest aunt of five, and the people here say she was
a grand woman. I hope to send or bring her a marble head
and foot slab from America. I visited also the graves of Hon.
M. A. Hopkins, Hon. and Dr. Henry Highland Garnett, Hon.
Alexander Clark, and Mrs. Mary Garnett Barboza, the distin-
guished daughter of Dr. Garnett. Hopkins, Garnett and Clark
were the three American Ministers of State, who have died
here. There is not a stone, or a shingle, at the foot or head
of the grave of Dr. Garnet,-a shame, a shame,  upon us
American Negroes!
  For forty years before Mr. Lincoln issued his proclamation of
freedom, Dr. Garnett fought for his race as no other man could,
except Douglass, when the lips of the southern Negro were sealed
and he was gored by the slave-masters to the verge of death. Dr.
Garnett periled life and everything for his freedom; now for us
American Negroes to allow his remains to lie here, as though he
was a dog, is enough to make God blast the whole of us. As I
looked at his grave I wept, and asked God if there was any hope
for such an ungrateful people. If we do not send a tombstone
here to mark this grave, the whole Negro race in America de-
serves the contempt of perdition, to say nothing of heaven.
  Hon. C. T. O. King is the agent of the Colonization Society
here. He is a man of excellent parts and evidently understands
himself.  Mr. King thinks that some improvements could be made
in the reception of emigrants from America, and I think so too.
But as I will speak about them at the proper place if I live, I will
only say at present, that any persons coming out here should not
come as paupers. While Liberia is the easiest place to make a
living on earth and is the most paradisiacal spot in the world,
all things considered, yet, there is a climatic change which most
people must pass through (many do not), and while they are
passing through it, they need rest and fresh food, which the Co-
Ionization Society does not provide, nor can it without steam-
ships, hence they need money to purchase the necessary food
and often some medicine. Persons should not come here and
expect to be hirelings; for the native stands ready to do all
kinds of work much cheaper and better than we can, except to
do skilled labor. They till the ground and raise all the produce
for twenty-five cents per day, or five dollars per month. A man
coming here with two or three hundred dollars and good sense
may be rich in four or five years. But this is no place for fools
and paupers. The oldest man in Liberia at present is only one-
hundred-and-twenty-seven years; the oldest woman is one-
hundred-and-twenty. A young man twenty-seven years old has
a wife seventy-two years old, and he is jealous of her and another
fellow twenty-four years old.
  The ministers of Monrovia are as follows:--Rev. Garrison W.
Gibson, of the Episcopal Church; Rev. Henry Cooper, M. E.
Church; Rev. Robert J. Clark, Baptist Church; Rev. J. B. Perry,