The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-26

bayoncts and bullets, not exploration, which
the Valley OF the Nile requires. This is very
serious assertion in the age we live in. Such
quest, doubtless, would prove erectual as a means
OF utilization but socially and politically the right
OF civilized nation to carry frebrand and steel,
unprovoked, to the heart Of an unknown country Is
very questionable. The sword in civilized hands
accomplshes the same work as other weapons do
| in the hands OF the savage-namely, slaughter.
Admitting that in the course OF time the natives OF
| so of our countrymen, "English rufians and Arab
| savages," our contemporary proposes, can
Christians feel that this is civiizing
Experience out OF Africa has taught us that hate,
distrust, revenge in hideous form cannot be
pnrged from the soil n waered BY fathers
die out on both sides ere civilization can be the
| result OF such conquest. II we turn from some
imaginary scene OF bloodshed taking place between
Britons and Africans near the sources Of the Nile
! to consider the more ciylzing example shown by
concerning the immense social value 20 Of i', his
! explorations He is not only sage, a
on the Of vepy oe Us s vss s C was
to the conscience Of human beings, be they
ever unenlightened. There is that in the mild
| undaunted gaze OF man GIFTED with o superior
soul which softens even savages. The .'great''
white man is already figure among the men
indeatigabe, forbearlng; all these qualities de-
| scribed by Mr.. Stanley as having been observed by
him IN Dr. Ss are those OF G n1 re we
character what his grief would be II he foresaw
that the high road his scientific search - opening
TO be strewn with the victims of q rem0rseless
carnage.
| Could not this immense discovery be turned to
| prove the power and might of the white mans
moral superiority? Could not an army of peaceful
crusaders be sent forth instead of army of .ruf-
fans? could not their leaders be legion of self
forgetful earnest determined men all sworn not to
strike but in personal defence, not to burn, or shed
| blood unnecessarily? IT indeed 'lndian officers by
| the dozen are slowly dying in England OF disap-
pointment and email" whose services could be
other hand, there are In England aspiring and noble
youths fired with the desire TO fight and die for 1.-THE
good OF their fellow men. Such Is the army that
should carry civilization all down the Nile from AL
exandria to the Equator.
But this is not all yet The article alluded to, OF
which the writer has failed to mark that the polt
cal value Of every nation s rooted in its social
cellence, calls the story Of the meeting Of Mr.. Ii.
Stanley with DrLivingstone BIZARRE He considers
1t So probably because 1t is so very novel; because
so much greatness and simplicity the striking
features Of Mr. H. Staney's narrative, or perhaps
also because the whole affair." from the time OF the
| young Americans interview with Mr. Bennett,
Junior, to that or the shake-hands with Dr. Living.
| stone at Ujiji, was conducted without any of the
! forms to which our moss-gr0wn minds are accus-
toned.
correct; but II odd is the idea meant think the
definition, though French, very tnapplicable In
deed; neither do see anything comic In this other
| figure, that of the newspaper correspondent who
in the regular exercise OF his profession, moved
desire Of adventure. but by an order from Mr..
| Bennett coolly punges into an unknown CONT
nent to search Tor lost geographer, and after
months of Suferngs such as only African travellers
endure, attans below the Equator an object desired
by oil mankind to be repaid BY the publication of
n despatch to the New YORK HERALD
The paragraph greatly diminishcs the merit Of all
Dr. Livingstone ia surely something more than
lost geographer, Mr.. Bennett something more than
master giving orders; while Mr.. II. Stanley de-
serves very different appreciation to that which
Is usually applied to class OF people who receive
salaries for the purpose Of making others laugh
There can be nothing comic connected with the
through, in his twenty-three attacks Of the most
malignant fever, or in his daily suspense, IN his
hope delayed and har-breadh escapes; neither Ks it
possible to conceive that one who endured SO much
could be unmoved by nobler aim than that of
sending despatch from Zanzibar to his
employer. Could man be inaccessible
to pity, who, the further he plunged into
African deserts found his bodily sunerngs Increase
and great endless vista OF unknown trials even
stretching out in his pursuit OF man like DR.. Liv-
ingstOne, when he ignored what was coming next,
whether the object of his search was murderedS
whether he would not soon share the same fateq
Still II in mental blindness we persist in only see
ing in Mr.. Stanley a cear-brained, cod.hearted re-
porter one who does not value human life SO much
as telegram, we shall still have to admit that,
sha his OF &c yes9
gigantic feat that OF penetrating 1000 miles OF I'M
known country. This fact would alone show Mr..
Stanley to be- II nothing more, one that his nation
may be proud OF, because he did his duty regardless
OF personal danger.
From the Edinburgh COurant, August 10.l
The great LivingstoneSt Stanley question Is, there
can be no doubt, atast fairly cleared up and set
tied. The plucky and indefatigable correspondent
OF the NEW YORK HERALD has discovered our gal
! liant countryman who IN the cause Of humanity
and science has separated himself from England,
from Europe, from civilization ITSELF for period of
more than six years Even so it is-the Expedi-
ton instituted by an American newspaper has
achieved a signal success where the Search ex-
petition which we ourselves attempted has ended
in humilatng failure. Mr.. Stanley has
trved to find DIR. Livingstone, because
from the first he acted in manner the
very reverse at each possible point, of that
| in which the countrymen OF Livingstone
| acted because he took measures prompt, practical
| and strenuous, while we deliberated; because he
! had no petty ieaouses OF self-seeking rivalry
| against which TO contend, no obstacles OF divided
counsels ana distracted deliberations thrown in his
! path We have no wish unduly 10 censure the
| policy or the proceedings of the Royal Geographical
Society It certainly seems strange that geographic
cal science should enkndle in the breasts Of its
votaries sentiments of ignoble suspicion and
mutual i'll will, which ought to have no place
among the session OF the sdrans, and that new
river, new mountain, new lake, new island,
has no sooner been discovered by OF their num-
Der than the attempt is made to dis
credit the revelation in % hundred I'M
worthy ways Scientific zeal is one thing and sec
! tiOna jealousy another, ana what we wan at
SaNillc row Is more OF the former ana less OF tile
latter. But our complaint is not now with tho
Geographical Society. To the honor OF that body be
| it mentioned that its members did equip an cx-
/ pediton, after certain fashion, to lnd and even
| II need be, TO rescue Or. Livingstone Ii is true
| that the search was organized on principles
rdicuousy inadequate to the end in view, and
/ that the method OF its conduct rom the earliest
! moment was such 20 render failure and FoScO,
humanity speaking, certain aud inevitable Still the
Geographical Society made the EFFORT. put forth some
little show OF eXerton, and herein they may claim
to be considered immensely superior to the
! government which swaScd ut the time, and
which, unfortunately, stu continues to sway our
! national destines Had Mr.. Gladstone been in the
slightest degree willing able TO understand the
! feeling of The people he would not for q moment
have hesltated TO enbOdy that feeling in action.
! Had Mr.. Lowe been able 10 look at the matter
through any other medium than that OF the petty
preiudices OF an gnobc parsiniony he would at
/ once have seen that the occasion was one on which
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