[44]. See Moffat’s South African Missions.
[45]. Missionary Herald, for December, 1853, and January, 1854.
[46]. Missionary Herald, February, 1853.
[47]. Recent developments at Sierra Leone, have proved, beyond all question, that certain persons, in that English Colony, have long been secretly engaged in the slave-trade. There is reason to believe, however, that these wars have been excited by the English scheme of restocking their West India plantations by purchasing emigrants, at $10 per head, from the African chiefs. See the letter of President Roberts, on this subject, in Appendix.
[48]. American Missionary, March, 1853.
[49]. Barbarism is the ignorance of infancy prolonged into adult age. This definition will convey a true idea of its relations to moral and religious truth.
[50]. The German term for farmers.
[51]. Missionary Magazine and Chronicle, October, 1853.
[52]. Report of Annual Meeting, May, 1853.
[53]. Baird’s Retrospect, pages 400–2.