The New York herald., 1872-11-17
ENGLAND AND TIE SLAVE TRADE.
An Expression Of British Opinion on the Hor-
Displayed by Livingstone and Stanley.
From the London News, November 81

/ From the London News November 81
| crowded and enthusiastic meeting, presided
over by the Lord Mayor, was held yesterday at the
Mansion House, to pass resolutions on the evils OF
the existing African slave trade. Large numbers OF
ladies and gentlemen were unable to obtain admis-
sion and the speakers, owing to the thronged pas
sages, with difficulty made their way to the plat
form. Among the distinguished persons present
were the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the Rev. Il.
Mofatt (the veteran South African missionary
Mr.. II. M. Stanley, the Eon A. Kinnaird, Bishops
| Claughton and Ryan, Mr. Otway, M. r., Mr.. Gilpin,
NJ. p, Lord Lawrence, &c. Mr.. Stanley, who was
received with much cheering, sat TO the Lord
| Mayors LETT and the Bishop OF Winchester to his
right.
| The Lord Mayor, in opening the proceedings, re-
minded the audience that early in his mayoralty
meeting was held in the Mansion House, the object OF
which was to draw the attention OF the government
to the slave trade in Eastern Africa From the expires
sion OF feeling that then took place the government
had in q very proper manner, taken up the ques-
| ton, and had placed in the hands OF u very dis
| tingnished man the opportunity OF completely
| settling the question. No one could doubt but that
Sir Bartle Frere was the 1ttest man for tho work.
| Cheers) 1t was to be regretted much that the
government OF the day was so unwise as to make
! treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar, but there was
every to hope that the talents Of Sir Bartle
Frere w0nd soon enable us to get rid OF what
| everybody muSt leel was ulSgrace I'd tnc country
! He lthe Lord Mayor would say nothing OF
| the Pacific Ocean, but wonld coniine the atten-
aa M the meeting 20 te ea,u W ahaas % %
something, and no doubt we should have to make
arrangements OF probably costly character to
| supply the Sultan OF Zanzibar with the amount Of
income he was deriving nom the 1nlQultous traffic.
In conclusion His Lordshp read letters OF sympa-
shaftesbnry and Sir stafford Northcote. The lat
ter said that no abler man than Sir Barte Frere
could have been selected 1or the mission to the
Sultan of Zanzibar
The Bishop OF WINCHESTER moved the first reso-
which rested on Great Britain to suppress the
West African slave trade binds her to the suppress
said, must lead him to say something on the gen
eral question. The, true instincts OF the
@ the new % % antsiavcry T movement; and and the @ crow.
ing OF the hal and the interest mani
the aa broken ou
in the time o our fathers swept away the curse OF
slavery from tho West, as q % now pledged itself to
bur few words to show that the work tney were
entering upon was one to which Great Britain in
principle was already committed. In tho first
place the EVIL the same. Throughout the
whole OF the great warfare against the West
leaders of the movement. was not so mucll
against slavery in the West India Islands as
against the devastation OF Africa and the great
eva and injustice done to the African people. In
dignatlor was raised against the cruelty in almost
Of the slaves, in the stirring up OF one petty chief
tain az iinst another. and the consequent promo
| tOn OF lnbcf0ccine warfare, UUTlS winch peaceful
villages were fred ana the inhabitants kdns ppsd
and sold. That was the eyil OF old; ihls was
the ahomlnation now. AS regarded the pas
sa~c or the slaves from the interior TO the
coast the evil was actually greater, and was OF
necessity increasing every year, because the &C.
as 1t progressed driving further back every year
the game preserves from which the stealers Of men
gathered up their wlctcAcd victims. The evidence
o Sir LeOpold Heath Captain Vivian and others,
was that, where two years ago poprlous
and peaceful populations We're engaged in
| agriculture and cotton growing, and lnanlinc-
ture, they travelled one hundred and twenty miles
without finding a single human habitation. The
accursed trade had passed over it like lire. hav
ing before 1t II Garden OF Eden, leaving behind it
slave trade was allowed to continue the distance
over which the victims had to march was in
creased: 1Aready according to Dr. Liynsston1es
captured ever reached the coast, and II the trade
thrust itself further into the interior OF
smaller. Already those great interior lakes,
which Livingstone had made known to u.s.
and were used for the Transportation OF the slave
traders victims. The march from the Interior
when arrived at the coast, their suflerings were were
not at an end, for they were crowded into Arab
Of them we're, according TO that ,wretched
treaty, with the Sultan OF Zanzibar. taken up
were carried to Zanzibar for Transportation
elsewhere, and that in such numbers that
IN on 10 ee % 1
the dominions OF the Sultan OF Zanzibar. Unfor-
tunatcy the very efforts OF British cruisers to put
| down the trade added to the sunerings Of the
victims, because the danger there was of capture
caused them to be crowned together in the hold OF
the dhows, on the principle OF sacrificing several
| for the sake OF one. Zanzibar reached there were
the horrors OF the slave market where
no cattle in England were subjected. Upon
this part OF the subject Bishop Ryan sent to the
| scriptons ever written. 1t could not be SAID OF
these poor East Africans, as is used 10 be SAID of
hcnighted Africa into Onristlan lands. There were
some who held that the diilculty lay in the fact
sn @ Me nSs We're nS On Saua ny
10 stop what was being done by Arabs.
on US oSe weaH he NO. %o% TO
prevent others from acing iniquity. His answer
was tiat this East African save trade was II the
| main, II not exclusively, carried on by British
| capta advanced by British capitalists. The rich
Banlan advertised caravan going IN the interior
| ivory, and the caravan being fitted out,
committed TO- an Arab adventurer. :. It was
sui Ut Zanzibar that the caravan going,
ana BY and by rumors came to tho coast Of the
number OF slaves the caravan was bringing, OF the
| intestine wars 1t was nourshing. But there was
/ no evidence upon which 10 proceed, and as long
was impossible to checs what going ON in the
Interior. The money Tor TINS traffic was furnished
| ~ the Banian, VINO was q british subject ana
ton as was that respecting the West Indian
slave trade; and incidentally 1t was more.
| because there was not single Banian house
1 in India or the protected States, or even at the
Courts OF Zanzibar and Muscat who were not de-
| pendent upon British influence. Through our
mcrce, through our protection OF the native
chants, through our intimate connection with the
governing states OF the East, Great Britain was
Just as dioectly bound In the sight OF God and man
| TO remedy this evil In the East as she was in the
| West The most conclusive OF all reasons
| was that Great Britain had, in the face
of the world and in the name or God
| undertaken this championship She had declared
that the slave trade was piracy and should not
exist on the seas. She had pledged herself En-.
press OF the Seas, as the Power TO which the God
OF Justice had given command to say that the
ocean paths should not be contaminated by the
slave traders track; and when great people un-
dertook cause like this in the sight oil God and
man, 10 was not for 1t TO shIrk duty merely because
IT became troublesome question. Great Britain
had undertaken the work and Great Britain
was bound to carry 1t through. The one
thing necessary was union OF the Christian
Powers 10 enforce n decision In mt sln trade