Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-09-19
NUMBER "a.
AFRiCANUs WAxETH WROTa.

HEw Mr.. stanley Elsvstse His Distaa.
g1'sl,osa Back It the Dri1hssn 1esst
MIR. MoncureD. Convay writes from
Brighton to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial: 49,
ION Saturday evening there Va.
held here banquet of the Brighton
and Sussex Medioo1 Chirurgical Society,
to which Stanley " invited and eiven
distinguished place at the head of the
table. The toast to "The Visitors -
was proposed by J-~Jsndin Murray,
ESQ.,, who, in doing ~ expressed bic
deep regret that the rise OF Stanley
should be the fall of DR.. Kirk. q een.
tleman whom he had known and es-
teemed since the;s eollexeI davs
were passed together. This speech
WAS rather cold, and Stanley was
somewhat worried by it. However.
when he arose to respond, tho, warmth
OF his reception was 20 great that he
seemed to lead of in . happy frame Of
mind. He said that for the Life Of hin
he could not tell Why he had been e.
!ected to respond in behalf Of the vie-
itors, a.. they had doubtless heard
enough Of him the day betoee a.d
there we're many visitors present Who
were far better qualified to return
thanks than, he'vas-soos Of them IN
deed having such . food Of
eioquence at their command that
even Daniel Webster could mot hold
a candle to them, .< However, he a.
eepted tho compliment q . token that
they would like to hear from him con-
cernlng their great and i1lusteious A.
sociate. Here, then, was the usual
8. hear. hear," and much applause. He
then gave . pleasant picture of Dr..
Livingstone dealing out plasters aud
pills to one savage tribe, and, poeions
to another. Here some individual in
the company gave . loud lau9h. Thert,
really was some drollery in 6tanley's
words and manner, and the individual
who laughed may very well have
thought the laagh camein at that point
However; Stanley, already soee b.
came violently excited Is. this l.uRh.
He protested that he had mt cone
there to be laughed n, and that he had
had quite enough of sneerinR. lately.
without their adding toit s19ess had
been insinuations In the Royal L0eo-
graphical Society the day before that,
he had indulged too much Id s'oensee
tionalism. They might call it. what
they liked, but If the discovery Of Li1-
ingstone in the heart of Africa had not
something sensational 3" in il, he did
not understand the word. He A.
sured them that he had
not gone to Africa to obtain the
thanks Of England, or the Enghah peo-
pie, but %, q matter of professional
duty. "Why," he cried IN . passionl-
ate way, "why are my 'state1aeuts
questiOned2 II. it .bocause Il an, IN
American, and for that reason am TO be
rewarded With gratuitous sneerinRs1
Do you think America would have in
quirea the nationality Of the man Who
might have prevented the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln before thanking
him for the act ;" or that. .Alexandef
would have asked to what country tho
man belonged who saved him from tho
assassin's thrusta Why, then, should
I be sneered at because 1 have
succeeded in discovering Living.
stone2 II that is the way in which
am to be treated, will ut once With,
draw from the company" Tho com :.
pany sat in . kind of stupor daring
this unexpected harangue. They did
not recover until Stanley had taken hls
hat and left the room. There vss
deep silence of . minute. Nobody
seemed TO know what to do. The little
mayor then arose, looking reddee than
usual, and exercised his deep regret
that anything should have occurred to
wound MIR. Stanley's feelings, and he
must certainly ssy that it WAS . very
unmannerly thing for the geotleman,
@hoever he was, to laugh out IN the
manner he did Stanley at o1ee LIT
..,;'y.