The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-29
Another Letter fr0nt DIP. living
atenc---Conmenss ON the slave

ssenc---commenss ON the slave
Trade. Etc.
Ngw YORK, July 26.--Dr. Livingstone, II,
| another letter 80 Mr.. Bennett, speaks az FOL.
lows OF the slave trade:
"Tbe whole traffic, whether by land OF
| ocean, Is 2 gross oa!ragc on the common law
Of mankind. Il Is carried on from age to
age, and in addition To the untold evils it in
i'icts. presents almost insurmountablc OH
Staclcs to the Intercourse between different
portions of the human family. Thus open
sore is partly owing 10 human cupidty and
partly to the ignorance of the more ciyivilizcd
oC mankind to the blight which lights chiefly
on the more degraded piracy OH the high
seas. In now trying TO make the eastern
African slave trade better known to Amcri-
ems, indulge the hope that | am aiding,
though i'll u small degree. the good time con-
Ing. when Slavery IL well Us piracy will he
Gt;>"d from the world.
MANY have lat a fiini idea Of the evils
that trading III slave; iuilirt> on the victims
ana authors u il alroril,S. Most people
Imagine that pc@rnc-, after being brulallZcd
~ 4 long course of acrNiludc, with but few
mriorltin. influences that elevate the more
favored races. are fair average specimens Of
The African man. Our idcs are derived from
The -!NcS OF the west coast, who have for
wears been subject To domestic bondage, and
I'll The depressing agencies of the most UNI
holthV climate These have told most inll-
rio,l>y on their physical frames while fraud
and tlir rum trade have ruined their moral
INJURIES - ~ not IL discriminate differences
OF mnn>lrnuS Injustice
Here follows Il description of the negroes
- DR.. Livingstone found them, conti1iStcd
Win those with whom Americans are fam
liar, coming from The west coast of Africa.
.'rhc ancient Egyptian. with his large,
round ll&chryc>, full. luscious lips. and SoInc-
villa, depressed uo>r. i Tar nearer The TYPICAL
ucg,ro than the West Co;l>t African, who has
been dc!rt>vd ay the unhealthy land he lives
in. The slaves generally. and especially those
nn the west coast at Zanzibar and elsewhere,
are extremely ugly.
Il have no prejudice against their color,
and, indeed. ANY one who lives long among
thrm tor:c"IS that they are black ana lcc!S
that they are Just icllow-iE"n; but the low,
rtrculin- forehead. pro@mthon> jaws, lank
heels. and other physical rrcuIEtrltir> com
mon aluon@ the slaves and West African ne
"ror>. always awaken some feelings OF aver
sion. | would not utter Il syllable calculated
10 ,rr>> down either class more deeply in the
miro in vhirh il i already sunk, but wish
TO uuini OFT that these are not typical At!l-
cans any more than typical En:cli~iln. n, aud
HAT the natives on nearly ail the !ii.yh lands
of tie Interior continent are, H. /; .u!c, fair
average specimens OF humanity.
- Lapis}icd 10 lie present W..rn I'LL the
head men Of the great chlcI '!ISalna, WHO
| lives west uf the >ollth rI:d Tan%anylNl.
! lrui COM. together to max ,,cAce with Ger
| tam Arabs who lld hurur', their chief town.
! md / ,rn certain one could not see more
finely ;nInci intellectual heads in any as
,rphlv in London or Paris. and the faces
and iurun> core .pnndCd timely with Tie
shaped heads.
"Ni>lun himself had been Il sort of Na-
pGIron Tor ;i.ll,iug and "onqu"rin% III lil>
ynltuar DAYS. He was exactly lik"an ancient
| Ss~vr;Hu >rlllI,turrd on NiWNch nari'lr, Is
| NiuIrud and other. and he showed Iliin-cl!
~ be- one Of ourselves ~ hah'ii'ally Iiluul%-
! jng in Copious rrtatinn> Of beer called
| rnlphr Many II The w"munarc very pretty.
AMI. like al ladies. would nave been much
uy;l,irr had they only let themselves alone.
| The. are not back, hut 81 il"ht-hro"n
| color. They kay" hEtrH eyes, beautiful lore
heads, nicely rounded limbs. WcEl-SIwpcd
forms, and SNAIL hands aud feet, but adorn
tnrn-rlyr> Iy filing splendid teeth 10 points
tilra cat, teeth. and tal""ln% their Bodies
and sticking pierced gl!>, through then
noses.
"ta2rmlri'- queen. Maria Nyomhr. would
Is, c>tr,lnrd real beauty either IN London,
Paris, or Nrw York. and yet she had II >lnalI
hol. through the r;lrlla::" near the iip ct
her ~Iiuhlr aullilinn NOSE. but she had only
| ,iI,d oils. >iIr 81 two at Tia" front Of her
~nuw-Nhitr teeth: and then, what Il hugh
! irI tn her farm