Constitutional Whig

FROM LIBERIA.

Office of the Colonization Society, Washington, Oct. 21st, 1831.

Despatches from this Colony, bearing date up to the 2d of September, have been received at the Office of the Colonization Society. The affairs of the Colony are highly prosperous, and the rumor (so industriously circulated some months ago by the enemies of the Society) of a great mortality among the emigrants by the Volador, which sailed in December last, wholly unfounded. Two small children only have died out of more than eighty persons who embarked on board that vessel. The Colonial Agent is in good health, and Dr. Todsen, the Colonial Physician, who has been severely indisposed, is fast recovering his strength. Both these gentlemen have shown most commendable zeal and good judgment in the discharge of their respective duties. The native Tribes are seeking the protection and submitting to the laws of the Colony. The country, to a considerable distance in the interior, has been explored and found to promise, in most parts, success to the agricultural industry of the Colonists. No less than forty-six vessels have visited Monrovia during the last year, twenty-one of which were American. Indeed, every thing in the intelligence just received seems to indicate that Providence is opening before the free people of colour in our country a rich inheritance in the land of their ancestors, and inviting the American People to aid with the powers and resources of the Nation, the great, humane, and christian work in which the Society is engaged. Ample extracts from these despatches may be expected in the next African Repository.