The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-04-25


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donce consccutiVoly on which The case
Is made to stand, end We are satisfied
from its intrinsic defects and tho gen.
eral absurdily Of the idea at the very
basis Of tho invention, that more as
founding piece Of Government lying
and moro audseiOus instance OF
humbue have not happened during
the last century in the world.
Many persons seem surprised that
We should imagine the " respectable
British Government aided or abetted
by some quasi Government lnstitu-
tions in England should have thus
sought to impose on the world, They
forget or do not know, perhaps, that
of all liars Governments in their SO
cret service are the most inscriptions
and of all Governments, that OF
Great Britain is the most dexterous,
accomplished and habitual liarl The
queerest part Of the business is that
there is no end TO human credulity,
and mankind always more readily
and sympatketically bestow their con
fdence on an ingenious fal5ehood 4,
than on the sober reality OF some
plain truth. A romantic story is
very captivating to most minds, and
mere truth allows no margin for the
marvellous and the indulgence Of
luxnriant fancy.
When "the Herald Expedition" so
called, was first spoken of two or
three years ago, for the discovery Of
DR.. Livingstone, We felt instinctiyely
that it would be patronizcd by the
British Foreign Office, and that the
Herald would be (as no doubt it
has been) simply the employee of
the British Secretary. When Cap
tain Stanly assumed afterwards
to have found old Livingstone
alive at Ujiji, and to have left him
there at his request, after his many
years of isolation and despair passed
rmong tribes of barbaric negroes,
from which condition he had been so
unexpectedly and providentially res
cued; when the old traveller was at
once converted from his original pur-
pose of trying to ascertain the geog-
raphy of interior Africa and to dis
cover the source of tina Nile into an
Abolition essayist writing down the
Sultan of Zanzibar for his cruelty in
permitting the immemorial slave
trade among his black subjects to go
on; when presently we observed an
expedition got up by the British Gov
erument against this Sultan of Zanzi-
bar, when, the expedition being we'll
on its way, with the sympathies of the
United States because of the romantic
interest of our sensible people in
dear old DR.. Livingstone and because
OF the laudable object, so commended
and advocated by the good Living
stone, of suppressing slavery on the
coast of Africa as the philanthropic
Yankees had suppressed slavery in
the United States, and not. of course,
for any commercial or other interest
ed plan relating to British empire in
Africa-when, we Say, Livingstone
had been made to play his role OF
African abolitionist, he was again,
J poor old creature, turned astray on
his travels to find the sources of the
Nile, it really did seem to US that the
Farce was SO apparent that no person
of observation and good common
sense could be deceived by the Hoax.
As a test for the Future, we offered
TO wager, in the Advertiser, that Liv-