The Daily Herald

Liberia.—We are pleased to find that the State of Tennessee has passed an act to encourage the emigration of free persons of color to the Country of their Fathers, where they may enjoy all the blessings of a free Government, in preference to remaining here, where they must always be considered an inferior and degraded class. Tennessee has done this, by simply providing that ten dollars be paid to the American Colonization Society, or any other, for every free person of color which they shall remove from that State to a colony in Africa provided for their reception. We shall be glad to hear that all the Southern States follow the example thus set them; but as it is estimated that every adult emigrant carried to Liberia, including his maintenance for six months in the colony, costs sixty dollars, it would seem proper that the State of which such emigrant formed a part might sustain a larger portion than one sixth of this expense. In the year 1833, Virginia passed an act allowing, we believe, twenty eight dollars for the removal of each free emigrant from that State to Liberia; but the act provided that the emigrant should have been free at the time the law passed. The consequence has been, that few claims have been made on the Treasury. Good policy, it would seem, to make the provision effective, would extend it to all free emigrants.—National Intel.