The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-09

can press has higher and moro patriotic mis-
sion to perform than that Of persuading for
eigneH that all our political parties arc corrupt
and all our public men debased and dishonest.
We regard the triumph of the Livingstone Ex-
petition not as the triumph of the HERALD
alone, but of the whole American press, and
not the least gratifying of its effects is the i'm
pulse ii has given to the promised improve
ment In the character of American journalism.
There il one point however, recalled to
notice by Mr. John Livingstone. which, while
it did not enter into any calculation of the
probable issues of the HERALD Search Expedi-
ton when the enterprise was set afoot may
prove one Of its most important results. In
all his letters-in those 10 the HERALD, to the
Royal Geographical Society, to the Foreign
Office and to members of his family-Doctor
Livingstone is earnest in his exhortations to
the civilized world to stretch forth its strong
arm over the suffering Africans and snatch
them from the horrors of slavery in the most
hideous of its revolving forms. II trust"
says his brother, ''that his persistent. efforts
to check the nefarious traffic in slaves in
Africa will be crowned with success" This
Christian object is no doubt uppermost in the
mind Of the missionary and explorer, who, in
his sorrowing over '.man's inhumanity to
man." awards crown of honor to the Ameri-
can people for their abolition of slavery in the
United States. without pausing to inquire
how far the blacks owe their liberty to the
uncertain chances of politics and war; The
seed he planted in the letters sent home by the
leader of the HERALD Search Expedition has
already borne some fruit, in moving the
British government to the more energetic &C
ton on the African coast recently announced
in the Queens speech to Parliament. But the
subject will not be suffered to rest there. We
have confidence that philanthropic men in all
nations will soon take it up and make an
effort to accomplish some practical work to-
wards the uprooting of the inhuman system
in the interior of Africa, as well as for its
check on the coast. There are indirect means,
slavery can be driven from this stronghold
The extension of trade into the regions trav-
elled by Livingstone would do more than
armies to remove the evil, and in this respect
the Stanley expedition may have worked a
good not anticipated for it. The success of
one resolute, practical man, and the plain
statement of his experience will tempt adj
venture more than all the essays that could be
written in dozen years. Despite his energy
and perseverance, DR.. Livingstone has been
looked upon as scientific explorer, and ordi-
nary men, who would hesitate before they fol-
search Of profitable ventures, would strike
out boldly in the path pointed out by such
traveller as Stanley. If Livingstone had re-
NAMED in Africa two years longer unaided
and unheard of, even if he had lived to
return home, the good work now hoped
for would at best have been so
long delayed. But we even question
whether the story he would then have had to
tell would have worked any practical good in
this important direction. The scientific fea-
lures of his labors would have engrossed pub
lie attention and the everyday facts would
genius and devotion Of the explorer. Stanleys
successful expedition is of an entirely different
character. He brings back information of the
existence of horrible traffic, which is going
on every day and which can be stopped with
comparative ease. He tells of riches in store
for adventures as tempting as the golden
promises of the mines. He offers in his own
person the proof that the land can be travelled
in safety and that the natives are harmless and
tractable. We shall be mistaken if his expe-
rience and his story do not induce many of
those bold spirits who are always ready to
strike for fortune through difficult paths to
seek the wilds Of Africa for their easily
gathered treasures. Who shall say how soon
commerce and civilization will stretch from
the coast into the interior of the land in which
Livingstone is to-day again shut out from the
world, driving slavery before them more
ef}ectually than I. Gould Be Scattered BY
armies? And who will deny that the "expe-
dition instituted by American enterprise" has
happily tended to promote this practical re-
sult2
Special DeAPatches by Mail from the
Far East.
Special advices from Japan and China, dated
in Hiogo July 81, Yokohama August 5, and
Shanghae July 5, furnish detail of current
events and of the bearing and tendency of the
diplomacy in the far Eastern empires. The
Chinese, moved by their natural astuteness
and hereditary reverence for the cause of
public education, appear to have resolved