The New York herald., 1872-12-02
1.-THE NEW LION"
The Discoverer Of DR.. Livingstone Graphic De.
scription Of What He Accomplished.
From the Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 2s.l
THE NEW LION.

From the Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 2s.l
THE NEW LION.
Stanley Is the new lion. He Is q genuine African
lion. He penetrated farther into Africa than any
other modern white man, excepting, always, DIR.
Livingstone, whom he was sent to fnd By finding
Livingstone the greatest OF all African lons Stan
ley has himself become q lion. Once upon time
when Bombastes Furioso remarked that he had
heard o hungry lion on Aric's burning shore give
q grievOus roar, Artaxerxes replied that he had
heard another lion give grlevous roar on Aries
burning shore, and (le continued) the first lion
thought the last a bore. But this does not apply
to Livingstone and Stanley. When Stanley heard
Livingstones voice 1t music to his ears, and II
Livingstone could have heard Stanley during the
last few months he might have thought him bore,
but he could certainly not have got enraged
at him. Everybody remembers the dilemma
OF poor Titus when he heard lion roar
ing in the lobby OF the British Parliament
..Say, Mr.. Speaker" cried Titus "shall shut the
door and keep him there, or shallwe let him In to
try II we can turn him out again?n 1t was safer,
OF course to keep the lion out II IL possible;
but, If he had burst in, the best thing would have
been for the members to run for their lives and let
him have the whole place to himself where he might
roar to his hearts content But 1t is impossible to
run away from Stanley, though 1t Is not hard to
keep clear OF Livingstone. Stanley roams to and
fro over the earth like Jobs adversary, and his
voice is heard louder than Walt. Whitman's "bar-
barrie yawp over the roofs OF the world" The best
way, when he comes around, is to give up Ut once,
and let him devour things till he can hold no more.
i, when he hrst appeared on this side OF Africa,
and got into row with the British Association, he
had been seized and sent to limbo there woad Won have
even the British Lion drew in his tai!
Francis Gaton to flight, terrified the British Geo
graphical Society, got sir Henry Rawlnson into
them to despair, obtained peace Offering In tho
shape OF a gold snutl-box from the Queen, secured
fat eass at every place he visited. and compelled
the whole British press TO sing his praises. Never
before was there such lion Never was there
one who made way with his enemies in such style,
or eXtOrted from them such cOmestibeS and
things
ting lonized in New York. lie was carried to the
city in Il special yacht, welcomed by the Mayor,
ieasted by the Bohemian Club, taken to the thea
ured received By the geographical Society greeted
by tic popu.ace and praised by the HERALD, which
Is in ccstacies about him. lie again fell on his Eng
llsh enemies as soon as he could open his mouth,
and dcvoured them for the hundredth time.
hs saoS months e sur A While np he ws ye S
In England, man named Noe chal-
lenged him at sale distance but Noe NSs
lion, AMI it would be as well for Noe to hide his
diminished head. once upon time, when Stanley
and nogged him till he cried Tor mercy but Stan-
ley Will have no mercy on Noe II he again gets hold
OF him. He will reduce him TO literary manure at
short notice. Stanley will set out his trav-
els. He will be here before great while. We
ence a,st 70 hear HIM bearing their Dollars In their
hands. Noe SAYS that Stanley isn't an American
by birth. and we don't know that the point has
he is a real born American, and not u Weshman,
we shall hold no dispute about the matter.
Well, Stanley deserves to be lioniZed. He car
ried through great undertaking, which required
word OF pluck and perseverance. % lie was sue
about his achievements In advance OF their per-
formance. He executed his work and then dis
easily angered at the doubts of those who, at first
could hardly credit what he sad yet this l5 not to
e He ' d sood a Ie hr IN ns @ ase
long lost man, whom all mankind were anxious
about. We were all troubled about Livingstone.
He mad set out to clear up the mystery oil The Nile
which had puzzled the world Tor thousands OF
years; but he himself, in the course OF time, be.
Nile. A hundred times we had heard OF his being
killed and devoured by the cannibas, aud every
from from the interior brought some new story
about him, contradictory OF the previous
stories. All through these years the brave man
had been toiling away at his task, unbeknown to
the newspapers. When STANLEY found him he was
reduced. in his own words. to a mere ruckle oi
bones," end it is evident that, but for this relief,
he would soon have given way and met the fate
which has overtaken so many other seaschers
and supplies, which renewed his life and strength
and enabled him TO resume the prosecution OF his
interesting laD0rS IL was q g00u work well done,
and If Stanley has been crowned with laurels they
were nobly won. Moreover, the Stanley exped-
tion has had an incidental value, which he never
contemplated. but which IS OF the highest import
ance to humanity. BY giving us Lvingstone's ac-
count OF the extensive and inhuman slave trade
which Is carried on from the eastern coast oil
Africa, he has stirred up spirit which has already
brought forth fruits and which will ere long put
stop to the trade. The British Government have
sent wel.eauipped naval expedition under CON-
mand OF Sir Barrle Frere, an accomplished 01cer.
to Zanzibar, the headquarters o! the East African
slave trade to take steps for Its suppression; and
this expedition will receive support rom other
In its work. This slave trade has been the means
for ages OF keeping up constant war and anarchy
over great part OF Africa, aud has been the chief
barrier In the way OF civilization and the intro
duction OF legitimate traffic In trying to discover
the sources or the Nile, Livingstone has done still
greater work In discovering and calling the atten-
ton OF the world TO the great source OF African
degradation, which viii henceiorth be under the
surveillance of civilized governments. That this
matter has been so promptly taken In hand Is
owing To- the enterprise OF Stanley. When Stanley
returned from his daring expedition, 1t was pretty
hard for him, on arriving in Paris, to hear himself
ridculed by the French savans, and, on arriving
In London, to nnd that his accounts were received
with dstrust in all scientific circles, and, still
further, to learn that the people In this country
were reading the cruel tales OF Noe.
1t Is a pleasure to lionize q real genuine lion ono
who has triumphs 10 boast OF, even though he be
fond OF showing mis- teeth on occasion. There are
play but their pretensl0ns. There are lots OF asses
who try to appear like lions. Let Stanley go ~
things and enjoy himself az much ~ possible peioIe
the next lion comes along and taxes away OUT
attention nom him.
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