The New York herald., 1872-08-24
TINE EAST AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
Voice Of the English Press on Queen vietoria's
Speech Regarding the Suppression Of
the Slave Trade on the East
eru Coast Of Africa.

| eru Coast Of Africa.
The London Times OF the 18th inst considers
| 'the most significant paragraph OF the royal
is ha In when Mer the Inc
| the Ministry:-'GOvernment has taken steps to
prepare the way for dealing more ehectnaily with
intended to prepare the way for action may be
long way Off from action ITSELF but We suppose we
ment with the recent discovery OF Dr. Livingstone
and with the dispatches to the Foreign Onice
brought by Mr.. Stanley from the great traveller.
Not that We suppose there is any definite design
| at this moment OF joint expedition with France
sign to send an expedition against the Emperor The
odore when letters were first exchanged with him
and Consul Cameron was accredited to his Court.
OF ell possible motives and to find ourselves at
length In position from which we cannot retreat
! with honor or even with safety, that we may be
Pasdonably jealous Of the beginnings Of policy or
wE.sh we do not see the end i is, therefore, un-
signs Shout, nave been made In the speech which
closed the si.u2gs OF Parliament. We hope the
Ss @ pss y te
OF their Intentions; for We are convinced they will
gain largely by taking the cSHntry in into their conf
ported IL their plans are such as command assent;
and IL they are OF different character they will
learn the objections to them before 1t Is too late to
prevent mischief"
[From the London Daily News, August 12.l
- = = The influence OF the new livingstone
Queens speech respecting the East Coast Of Africa.
The government hopes to be able to deal more
Il done On Aca
the slave trade has to great extent been sup
pressed, and that the most part by the inau-
ence exercised by the European settlements. The
slave hunting OF Eastern Africa is kept up n.y.
ARABS. with the assistance Of Indian subjects Of
Subjects" says Livingstone "have long been
and are now the chief propagators Of the Fan
muskets, gunpowder, balls, hints, beads brass
wire and calico are annually advanced to the Arabs
% e nsf % the work Of
aware" Elsewhere he says:-"The captives are
not traded for. put murdered for, and the gangs
that are dragged cOastwards to enrich the Banans
are usually not slaves but captive free people The
can't captives are sold for ivory, at the rate Of about
Judgment will be requisite in SO dealing with this
matter as to keep us clear of obligations which 1t
But Power which counts Its subjects by hundreds
Of millions IN the peninsula Of India ought to have
on the shores OF the Indian Ocean.
From the London Post, August 1871
With promptitude and falness which leave no
e oers lGf % M s 10 the oq
have raised and retained sucn Intense and general
interest. Although the people OF whom the Illus
trious traveller writes are possible cannibals and
the certain half-cast children Of vagrant Moham-
his skiful pen riyets the attention by the uncon-
scoGs betrayal Of the heroic spirit and the energy
his bursts OF humor amid all manner OF privations
II his primary task were to trace out the grand
secret of the origin OF the Nile, DR.. Livingstone
does not permit the resolution OF doing what
he was sent by the Geographical to do to turn him
away from the thoughts and vocation Of the phllan
more than an obscure missionary. He has invoked
the compassion of Europe for those poor creatures
on whom the ruthlessness Of the slave trade has
worthily reused the Indignation OF every kindly
heart against the East African Moslem. 'The
spent more than two years, are innocents COM
pared with our Banian fellow subjects. BY their
Euiaan lives in one year than the Manyema do for
they eshpOts In ten" To the Manyema he appears
have tender inclination, and OF them he remarks
"u they are Gannibals they are not 0sentatOusy so
Tho neghbo.tns tribes all assert that they are men
eaters, and they themselves laughingly admit the
ana Ssy s On ss
horrIly one Of my pecvle liSgnd It to be the ssai
Of gorilla Sr t knew its existence
pr af ss g sps re-
infamous notorietv to which their enpidity dnd
their satanic acts OF shaving have entitled them.
zibar gentry among the inonensive people in Cen
tral Africa that on going among a tribe which
Luaaba DR.. Livingstone himself being unknown,
could not make good his claim to be innocent o |
ny n ts Doctor
identity with the cruel strangers. On calling to
one vociierous lady who gave me the head traders
Be his TSe s
50 far as they themselves are concerned, but
they demorallze the natives aS with whom
bad, bad bad bad, bad, awfuiiy bad and SannibaisS s
but they are angels to the cunning Indians who are
at the bottom Of the whole system now revealed to
Of the tribes inland do not like the Banlans deal In
wholesale murder, they have learned from their
ley was mucted," observes DR.. Livingstone to Lord
Granville ''of one thousand six hundred yards Of
made a detour of three hundred mil IS to avoid
similar % spoliation among people accustomed to
Or. Livingstone conceivea ;,Inat the East African
slave trade can be anr.nllaed 'f the native Chris
tians OF one or mere of the English settlements on
pshed the objects on Of their 'e establishment bis in
suppresslng the slave trade, could be induced by
voluntary emigration to remove TO- some healthy
the African will always act as bar to emigration
Tho soil Of Africa s fertile and the continent is so
Of space to move. None Of the necessares Of life
are beyond the reach of the humblest peasant; but
on the they are SO eay ae oesane0 eac as m
new field of enterprise. The total lack OF wants
efrectually removes the incentive &c .csS,s c:iy
tractive stories related Of emigration of the charm
they might otherwise possess
An African mother keeps also her authority over
does not relax the charm and strength Of the
maternal tie. Where is the African mother who
would consent to the migration OF her daughter
from the West to the East Coast ? No wrong can
quench the intense devotion OF the African to
home. In conjunction with this absorbing love,
the stubborn fact arises that marriages, such as
they are, are contracted at very early age, and
1t seems that the contraction OF marriages at so
early an age possesses the popularity Of binding
the African more and more to the place of his
nativity. 1t Is true that DR.. Livingstone
specially bargains that the emigrants shall be
Christians but no native OF the West Coast was
ever yet so completely Christian as to forget
and forswear the customs and traditions OF his
country The iniquities OF the slave trade on the
West African Coast were never frOwncd down by
the infusion OF Christian tenets into the character
OF the African; but to the forts standing now in