Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 2: June, 1845 By the arrival of the schooner Primus from Cape Palmas, we learn that there has been some considerable disturbance between the Graway and Cavally people. These natives are located betwixt the lower extremity of the territory owned by the Maryland Colony, and the Cavally river, some what contiguous to each other. The cause of the difficulty appears to have been the Opening of a road, either by or under the sanction of the Colonial authorities, leading back to some of the tribes more remotely settled from the sea-shore, so as to afford them increased facilities for bringing their cam wood, ivory, and other produce to the colonial market, and thereby save what is called the bush people, from the exorbitant exactions to which they would otherwise be liable from the tribes living on the beach, through which they must necessarily pass. Against the Cavally people availing themselves of the benefit of this road, the Graway tribe entered their protest. The former persisted in the exercise of what they deemed their right, and as the latter would not recede from the ground they had thus arbitrarily taken, an open rupture was the consequence. We are informed that they met to talk the palaver, but instead of coming to an amicable adjustment of their differences, they rose upon one another, and on both sides killed fourteen men - eleven of those from the Cavally, and three from the Graway tribe. Governor Russwurm has interposed an advisory in¿uence, and with, good effect too, at least for the present. That this cessation of hostilities will con tinue long we are not assured, as we understand the Cavally people say, they have lost too many men to let the matter sleep so, without, at a more convenient season, another attempt to avenge their wrongs. The Rev. John Payne, living at Half Cavally, has come up to Mount Vaughan for the time being. We are glad to hear that all the missionaries are doing well. The California which left here a few days since, with a recruit of missionaries for that mission, had not yet arrived. Things in the Colony prosper as usual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.