The New York herald., 1872-08-24
Doctor Livingstone would be sure 20 fail; and, per-
haps, when he comes back full OF his experiences
to discuss the matter calmly with us, he viii think

haps, when he comes back full OF his experiences,
to discuss the matter calmly with us, ne VIII think
80 too.
From the Pail Mall Gazette, August l2l
The passage In the Queens speech relating TO the
slave trade from Eastern Africa Is a remarkable
proof or the interest winch DR.. Lvingstone's al
ventures and sunerngs have awakened. That
great traveller has In fact revolutionized our no.
the African continent almost much as he and his
compeers have altered our ideas OF It's physical
ton among them Engshmen have had to obterate
rom their minds the rather dim picture of Africa
which they formed in their childhood, and to con-
country which they had vaguely associated with
SAND and drought. C0ncurrently with this change
tie ~ s,9w stW ney nave mad to modify their notions Of
popul0us Continent. Until quite recently II the
Englishman OF ordinary information had been asked
would have replied that It consisted in mixed
nordes of barbarians. under bloody and fantastic
and massacres. state ceremonies which tnok ths
form OF wholesale executions, might have seemed
mere hideous Inventions II undoubtedly trust
trating, farther into the interior, has shown 1,S
ties is the mere fringe Of African society. The
muititudinous negroes Of the inland countries he
rch nnds 70 ne very simple people living under patri.
hardly to amount to tribes. According to the ac-
counts he has given OF them they quarrel singu-
G e s to"Ssd only SS s ps
petual fear OF witchcraft. The san9uinary mon.
archies near the coast do really exist, but they
seem SEEM in fact, to be exclusively the creation OF
up the, primitive communities OF negroes that
seyes seey nave syesn1 no power Of them
negro as servant or slave. on the score OF his
physical strength, powers or endurance and docili-
Africa are conte,ned; and 1t is hardly matter for
wonder that proto1Ea modincations have been pro-
dnced both Of society ard Of the individual. DR..
Livingstone, indeed would seem nearly to have
persuaded himself that the natnOsed and prOgna-
thous negro who is almost exclusively known to
Europeans is a degeneration from q higher phys
cal type which has been produced by the slave
trade. II seems at any rate certain that, though
through great distances from both the African
populations In the interior who still In the en-
1oyment OF much simple happiness. The Justiica-
maritime slave trade If we are able TO do It, Is that
It Is one stage or process which is turning
societies OF simple and contented cultvators into
miscellaneous hordes OF brutallzed savages under
cruel and bloody OppressOrs. great mass of hu-
man happiness is yearly collapsng; a vast amount
TRANSFORMATION Of the negro populations Affords a
far better excuse Tor forciby putting down the
traflc than the mere suerings OF the passage from
Africa to the Arabian slave marts.
There seems little doubt that the trade can be put
down, even without the establishment of a free
negro community on the Eastern Coast as proposed
by Dr. Livingstone and Sir Bartle Frere. The only
lucrative markets for slaves are now the over
sea markets OF the Eastern Mohammedan States,
and II the access to these can be prevented there
is every reason to believe that slave-dealing
and slave-hunting In Africa will dwinde to nsig-
accustomed to treat the maritime slave trade as
piracy, and the only government which once stren-
uously resisted this principle United States OF
waters on the East African coast were open to the
British cruisers Of the squadron ordinarily sta
short work OF the maritime trade.
natey this does not seem to be the case, and there
appear to be certain waters under the sovereignty
are prevented from entering under the pro-
visions or treaty to which the English govern
mem is Fsrty: Ut, It thus happens tat Zanzibar
quarters OF a tolerably secure traffic IN negroes
from the East Coast Of Africa. At first sight there
would seem to to- be no difficulty in putting an end to
arises through engagements with the Sultan which
belong to the intrtcacies Of AngloIndan diplomacy
In Captain Burton's recent publication represents
o younger branch Of the Suitans or Inlams OF Mus
cat IN Eastern Arabia who have long been under
and whose authority is the keystone Of British as.
cend ancy In the Persian Gulf. Muscat aud Zanzi.
Unos SsE $ Sc ms ss mas sams
ier usual quarrel ssss ssouf statss sss
Governor General Of India, is understood to have
nppeased by assigning Mnscat to one pretender
bow turns out the Governor General decided that
Zanzibar should every year pay to Muscat tribute
Or subsidy as mark OF semf-feudal dependence,
Ind this payment appears to be the real source OF
he present difficulty: The Sultan Of Zanzibar
practically maintains his right to license the mari
lime trafic In slaves on the plea that the export
iuty merely reimburses him for the tribute which
lie has to make good under the diplomatic arrange
nents OF the British government, and he alleges
lhat he simply cannot afford for this reason to
pen the waters OF Zanzibar to British ships of war.
IN Order therefore to put down the trade, England
most apparently not only employ her own vessels,
but must Dpy up the vested Interests of the ruler
rom whose harbors the expectation takes place.
On the wi.o!a If the suppression Of the trade is
mere matter Of money, this country may be reason
ably expected to make some sacrifice for 1t. We
have wngcd war too long, too publicly and too ear
nestly Oh the slave trade to be able to withdraw
same time, IL the arguments for the moral deensi-
bility for our policy had to be restated we do not
think they would be altogether the same as those
which were 80 pxssionatey urged by the adversarcs
not in the Eastern Mohammedan countries mere
system of oppression practised by spectators
Tor commercial gAn 1t IS an Institution
coeval with Oriental society OF which the history
has never been Intercepted. There Ia little or no
prejudice against tho color Of the negro in those
regions the treatment he receives Is not materially
different from that of the freeman, and on his
he may riss to such honor and dig
nifty as are attainabe by Oriaptals But the suffer
lngs Of the maritime transit are only less than
former Is shorter, and the decentralization, debase
ment and disorganZatlOn OF the African communi-
ties are, the evidence OF DR.. Livingstone, as cer
tainly and as extensvely produced by the trade on
one coast on the other. Here heeOur true justi-
fcation for intervention.
THE FRIGATE NUMANUlA.