The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-26
The True Journalist-NIr. Stanley's
Ashantce Triumph.

4Ae 1Tu0 SCurn0ll6t-nlrs Stumley'S
Ashantce Triumph.
The English newspapers of the 18th inst.
contain the HERALD special despatch for
warded by Mr.. Stanley to this Journal in
which our able correspondent gave the terms
of the treaty of peace agreed upon between Sir
Garnet Wolseley and the Inundated King of
the Ashantees. AS Mr.. Stanley is one of the
most widely known men of the present day
we do not think it necessary to dwell at length
upon the fact that he anticipated the English
government in forwarding the first intelligence
of the fall Of Magdala-a piece OF news which
was the signal for national jubilee through
out England Neither need we remind the
public that the honored corse now being borne
up the Bed Sea by the steamship Calcutta
the remains of Livingstone-recalls one of the
boldest and most successful exploits recorded
in travel, adventure and journalism. But
beyond these triumphs Mr.. Stanley remained
to be tried. And now, having accompanied
the second military expedition into q
malarial section of Africa as HERALD cor
respondent, having for active and untiring
competitors some of the best journalists OF
England, many of them in the secrets Of the
treaty Of peace, which the Times of London
and other English journals eagerly copy, and,
as usual, bears off the substantial journalistic
laurels of the war; If we pause to inquire
what quality it is in the man that has brought
him renewed distinction, we can only answer.
it is because he is a complete journalist. Not
only did he go to Ashantee at the peril of his
life, following the staff from the sea, distance
of one hundred and thirty miles, to Coomassie
and send graphic letters descriptive of all the
operations, but he organized o separate cam
paign, by which he was the first captor of the
Lisbon telegraph station, whence he wired the
important news that all England was anxious
HERALD correspondents who have justly
merited high literary repute and admiration
for courageous and chivalric qualities. Mr.. T.
A. MacGahan, who was recently received by
the American Geographical Society, when
General Sherman joined him in description
of the Caucasus and the land of the ancient
Oxus, completed one Of the most remarkable
and perilous journeys in modern travel, being
present at the fall of Khiva, and subsequently
fighting in the bitter campaign between the
Turcomans and the Cossacks. Mr.. Mac
Gahan, like Mr.. Stanley, was besieged by
enterprising publishers, who We'd with each
other in their endeavors to print the story Of
his adventures in Central Asia. 1t is now
about year since q resolute journalist at
tached to this staff volunteered to visit Cuba,
60 into the insurgent lines and discover if the
instruction was coreless fraud. All will
remember the romantic journey of Mr.. James
j. O'Kelly; how he went to Havana; then
boldly pushed for the insurgent camp, in def
ance of the Spanish authorities his narrow
escape from death his visit to and interview
with Cespedes his arrest and incarceration ct
Manzanillo, and then the revolving persecu-
tons to which he was subjected up to the mo-
ment of his release in Madrid. We rejoice to
learn that he, too, has written, in his dashing
style, o fascinating book, called the "Mambi
Land" in which his adventures are related at
length. We need hardly mention Mr. Fox
General F. F. Millen and other HERALD COR
respondents to illustrate what we would con-
vey by these ines-that true journalist
must be thorough man Of the world, one Of
high culture, quick to learn, ready to trans
nit, having the military quality Unborn, pos
sessed of the literary faculty in the first de-
gree and of that refined instinct which teaches
man not to get killed if he can help it.