The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-27

for whom we must own Niagara Of respect
advanced his sweeping objections to the
HERALD correspondents story, he was not
aware of the fact that Stanley carried in all
eight letters from the explorer, together with
his diary, consigned to various individuals, all
of whom were familiar with the Doctors Chi
Biography. II, however, Stanley's geographical
announcements did not agree with Mr.. Kie-
pert's ideas of Central Africa, they must be all
wrong! The French geographical Solons who
discussed the matter made much greater
mountain out of the molehill, which they did
not observe was only their own ignoranceo of the
facts. They had heard half the truth, and
Immediately proceeded to construct Africa,
the Nile, Livingstone and Stanley with the
most astonishing results and with calmness
equal to
The row
That broke up our society upon the Stanslaus
If Stanley, in fine, did not construct an
Africa la francaise, with Nile miatre
dh6tel and Livingstone d reau glac<e, the
whole thing was the. construction dan .fdrceur
AMERICAN. Very sorry indeed, messieurs but
it would have been worth while to have waited
for the whole truth, which appeared with the
publication of the letters to parties other than
the editor of the HERALD. These included
Earls Clarendon, Granville and Derby,
Livingstone's brother in Canada, former fell
low traveller, and Livingstone's daughter in
Ireland. Now in the face of all this, to pro-
claim the letters forgeres is to write ones self
<o @,;l b. IT,
such powers of imitation, imagination
and clairvoyance that there is no
way of accounting for all his cleverness
except through Spiritualism. Mems names
have been forged to wills, deeds and checks
but that man could sit down and write
number of lengthy letters and a five years
diary in the handwriting of another, and en-
close these to his family as genuine, and be 80
accepted by them, can only, we repeat, be
achieved by calling ''spirits from the vastly
Deep" and having them come, too. 1t would
leave the Tichborne case, with it's uncertainties,
90 marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that per-
ished in its PRIDE" never had such difficulties
to contend with. When he commenced putting
forth the pretended Rowley manuscripts there
was nobody in the world to verify the writings
of the dim old monk to whom Chatterton at
tributed them. He was tripped up on point
similar to the great "bulbous-below-th
ribs" discovery, but Chatterton could not
say that he had chance to tell
old Rowley what words had been coined and
books written in a matter of three or four
hundred years. If all the forgery criers say
be true then they are the greatest hoaxes of
all time and Stanley greater genius than
mankind sees in every thousand years. If it
had not been for the dubious we would be-
lieve it, say one class of sceptics. All else we
could put faith in; but "Falsus IN uno, falsus
in omnibus" It is the old womans story re-
peated who could not believe that her son
saw flying fish, but could that his ships an
chorin the Red Sea brought up one of the
wheels of Pharaoh's chariot on its fuke.
Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, would not be
trusted because he gave description of the
native process Of cutting steaks from the live
COW, and SO on. The English Search Expe-
ditionists were afflicted with no such doubts,
although it is not very apparent why they did
not proceed on their GRAND in any case. From
their own statement it was because of their
certainty that Livingstone had been found to
sufficient extent and did not desire to be
found much more.
Now, by way of final challenge to the incred-
ulous. sceptical Thomases, we propose that if
they can find sufficient funds to pay half the
cost Of another expedition to Central Africa to
settle the question and doubt no longer we
will pay the other half. To the party might
be added correspondents from all the New
York journals, and then we and everybody
might be sure we had found him.