The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-04
Our Trade with Western Africa.

IMPORTANCE TO gee UNITED STATES or A MORE Ex-
TENDED COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE
The Importance attached by both England and France
to wider deveopOmeDt Of the commercial and trading
OF Africa and their efforts 10 by pre-
occupation monopoly Of that trade give warning both
to government and citizens TO bcstr themselves
II they do not wist 70 passing into other hands
Of the most lucrative character Within the
eight years Great Britain has manifested unusual
tvy promoting discoveries In Africa, and, with her
usual commercial sasacity turning those discoveries
the most profitable account With those wonderful and
hitherto almost unknown regions her trade has largely
creased within the period indicated and each successful
petition to be bu. the pioneer Of additional one
with increased knowledge and fcitiesso that the pc
rod to be appreachiug when however slowly and
gradually yet in her and with absolute success
she viii monopolzc the Of that land OF hitherto
developed wealth.
We have recently received with a costly and syfal
welcome the representatives land whose wonderful
resources have hithario been kept unshared by
the rest Of the commercial world and,
with not a little solfgratulation on own
Yankee shrewdness in caxng these ustrous strangers
70 cur we are ns sye ~ tie
men. We arc dcuby huGEing ourselves al the thcugk
that In this instance we have got ahead even of ccn
mercia England. while, the time, II Is with
Just pride that reflect that while have succeeded
breaking downby the Offices Of good WILL governed by
hitherto isolated the empire a japan, we have done for
the benefit OF the whole comnsroia world, willing that
they should be parakers In the commerce of that vast
and wealthy country.
But the spirit which Affican commercial expeditions
have and carried by Great Britain has been
% comparative senshncss and with results intended
10 be for her exclusive benet While We learn much
from the travels Of Livingstone and Earth, we do not
learn what, commercial natsoa, IL " moet important
should know--that the British trader follows close
hc footsteps Of the British traveller, ready TO open for
himself and 20 close FAR be 10 thc rest Of the
world the which the pioneer explorer thus de-
egpts that the consular agent n not Tar behind 10
te business thus established giving the
Jrislng EIglkhman who has government ~ his hccls,
and hich tracks his footsteps an advantage ever the
the troubles u ~ political household at home 10 attend
unnec esary details OF opening or protecting commerce
abroad.
From tie account Of previous travellers and especially
from the accounts o Drs Livingstone and Blrtb, both
under the patronage ~ the British government, tic posi-
tion n Ac, as commercial nation, fast rising INTO an
importance which the word has hitherto denied her, IL
presented IN q and ctcrcstng light. OF Central,
SoutLotn and Efern Africa counts Of the rivers
and streams, the mountains Md plains, The character Of
the people aud tie resources the countr.
rect any thing told In school biographies DR..
Barth has shown the routes n Central Africa
which take w their REGULAR raas from Irpoli, Ia the
kingdom OF tia, name through thu desert for rnnbucoo
and other OF trade in CeDtssl Africa, which be
cisurey visited during his dvc yeass' residence and
pIoraton ~ ts same tine he h< given an account
is many rivers sad especially q the Mississippi Of that
country, the mighty river Niger the esstcry branch Of
which twelve hun trsl miles from tn sea while the
rp9n river Itself rolls 10 volume u waters westward one
rIo1sand six hundred nreF. wehere find country
atouding in resources, and requiring only Ne excrtions
Of cArizaton and the auspices 81 Christian govern
ent y be made available 90 the rest ~ the world The
river NIGER is the great feature of Central Africa
b w Brth, nnd IN his Imagination he already pictures
u hearing upon It's bosom fecis of laden with
the produce acl wealth Of the surrounding countries, an
exchange Tor ts gToducs and manufactures n Christi
Euror But he i seDt upon the i'm portsnt sub
jet o. ihe rves any, % The Atlantic side Of North.