International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

No. 258. Mr. Turner to Mr. Fish .

by all means, be incorporated into the Liberian State. They now reside upon Liberian territory. The policy of educating in foreign lands the aborigine children has been successfully adopted by European philanthropists. In the cases of Sierra Leone, Lagos, and other successful colonies, this policy has proved eminently successful; the young natives return, and in their turn become teachers and missionaries; thus many thousands have been fully civilized. In the adoption of such a policy lies Liberia’s most direct route to developed nationality; her grandest prospects for the future. Whatever may…