The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-02
NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY JULY l87s-TRIPLE SHEET

Mr. stsnley's Livin xstons Expedition
and the East African slave Trade.
A British feet menacing Zanzibar has
proved ON efficient argument in favor of the
treaty making certain stipulations calculated
to aid in ending the slave trade of Central
and Eastern Africa. Under its persuasion the
Sultan signed the document submitted to him
by the British Commissioner, Sir Bartle
Frere, and on the same day the slave mart in
the city of Zanzibar was closed The English
papers comment at length upon this fact, so
full Of encouragement for the humanitarian
and the Christian. and truthfully ascribe the
mission for suppressing the abominable traffic
to the interest evoked in the British public for
the salvation of Africa by the thrilling
narratives of life in Equatorial Africa
from Dr. Livingstone and the HERALD COM
missioner Stanley, who found and succored the
aged missionary in the heart of the black
continent after his British friends had long
given him up for dead. Says the Daily Isls-
graph:-"On reaching Zanzibar and COM
mencing inquiries Sir Bartle Frere found that
the evils of slavery there were even greater
than had been described Every word of
Livingstone has been confirmed in regard to
its horrors and the paralyzing effect produced
upon the interior tribes. 1t was the practice
of our representative to question the slave
children especially, in every spot, as their
answers were generally simplest and most reli-
able. In ninety-nine cases out of every hun
bred they told the same pathetic story-how
they had been hiding with their tribe in the
bush, till, in some unlucky moment, when
they were fetching water or wood, the kid
nappers bounced upon them and carried them
to the coast. Either thus, or by raids upon
villages, when those who resist are murdered,
the slaves are collected It results that the
interior is cut off from trade with the coast by
this wall of terror, and neither is industry nor
settled life possible to the poor miserable vii
layers" These statements tally exactly with
the HERALD special dispatches from Stanley
and Livingstone, and the subsequent asser-
tions of Stanley, which forcibly called public
attention to the vast natural resources of
Central Africa and the desolating effect of
the horrible trade in human flesh, which
has for ages kept it in a state of savage isola-
ton from the rest of the world. An imme-
diate result of Mr.. SANKEY'S declarations on
this subject in England was spirited meeting
at the Mansion House, London, to take into
consideration measures to put an end to the
accursed slave system, by which three hundred
thousand Africans have annually been sacri-
feed to the greed of the dealers in "human
ebony" This meeting embraced the most
illustrious men of Great Britain. Mr.. Stanley
and others spoke, and demand was made
upon the British government for strong means
to put an end to the monstrous trade. In re-
Spouse to this demand Sir Bartle Frere was
soon after despatched to Zanzibar and
the East African coast charged with
this humane mission; and the signature
of the treaty by the Sultan of
Zanzibar is the browning success of
found and relieved noble old Dr. Livingstone,
80 mere ruckle of bones" ready to die from
lack of the supplies duly sent from England
and stolen by treacherous agents, who reported
his death, has been providentially accorded
the glory of exposing the blighting curse of
Africa, and thus causing the enlightened ma
tons of the earth to compel its suppression.
Thus his resolute discharge of duty, arduous
painful and dangerous, has secured him an
unlooked-for reward in the appreciation of all
friends of humanity and lovers of liberty; and
the HERALD, as an enterprising newspaper, ever
serving the public interests in all quarters of
the globe, in seeking to succor an abandoned
and perishing missionary and devotee of geo.
graphical science in the almost inaccessible
regions of Central Africa, becomes the means
of Africa's emancipation from the scourge of
man. hunting and her entrance upon career
of progress heretofore deemed impossible to
that naturally rich and acknowledgement
continent.
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