The Republic of Liberia . LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, iNEW YORK : CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS V l^\ First published in iq2o {All rights Teserveil) PREFACE For some curious reason, which I must confess hashitherto completely baffled me, it has usually been cus-tomary to write of Liberia and the Liberians in a toneof gentle melancholy ; to descant upon the country andthe people to whom it belongs as with a pen dipped insighs, and generally to regard them with the despondentair of the good old Scots mission doctor, who was wontto raise the spirits of his conva
The Republic of Liberia . LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, iNEW YORK : CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS V l^\ First published in iq2o {All rights Teserveil) PREFACE For some curious reason, which I must confess hashitherto completely baffled me, it has usually been cus-tomary to write of Liberia and the Liberians in a toneof gentle melancholy ; to descant upon the country andthe people to whom it belongs as with a pen dipped insighs, and generally to regard them with the despondentair of the good old Scots mission doctor, who was wontto raise the spirits of his convalescent patients by remind-ing them of hoo often they went off i the relapse,ye ken. As a matter of fact, there seems very little organicallythe matter with Liberia, in spite of the inevitable depres-sion which the Great War has brought in its train ; and,therefore, when I set out to give some account of theNegro Republic in its latter-day aspect—a task which Ibegan shortly before the bursting of the world storm,and
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