The New York herald., 1874-07-17
UNEMPLOYED AFRICA.
An nglo-American Journals
tic Expedition.
David LivingstOne's Work
To Be Completed.
MIR. H. M. STANLEY'S MISSION

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she proprietors OF the Dahy Telegraph and Mr..
Bennett proprietor of the NEW YORK HERALD, I'M
der which an expedition will at once be despatched
70 Africa with the object OF investigating and re-
porting upon the haunts Of the slave traders; OF
pursuing to fulillment the magazine mt discoveries
OF the great explorer, DIR. Livingstone and OF COM
pleting, II possible, the remaining problems OF
Central African geography This expedition has
been undertaken by and win be under the sole
command OF Mr.. henry NJ. Stanley, whose
successful journey 'in search OF Living
st0ne," upon the suggestion and at the
charge OF the proprietor OF the NEW YORK
HERALD, was the means OF succ0ring the Illus
trious traveller, and secured to science the
fruit OF his researches, while it enabled our dstn
gulshed countryman to prosecute his latest inves-
tlgatiOns. Mr. Stanley Will in a short time leave
England fully equipped with boats, arms, stores,
and all tue provision necessary for thorough ana
prOtracted African expedition. Commissioned by
the Daily Telegraph and the NEW YORK HERALD
In concert, he Will represent the two nations
whose common interest in the regeneration OF
Africa well illustrated when the lost
English explorer was redlscovered by the ener-
getic American correspondent In that memorable
journey Mr. Staney displayed the best qualities OF
An African traveller; and with no lncOnsiderable
resources at his disposal to reinforce his own COM
travel it may be hoped that very important re.
suits win accrue from this undertaHing to the ad-
vantage OF science, humanity and civilization.
We cannot, indeed. De mistaken in believing
that the enterprise thus planned will be held by
general opiniOn-nOt only here and in the United
States, but throughout EurOpe-as one worthy to
engage the efforts OF modern journalism. The
sphere OF the press minister to public in
terests and sentiments, IS. of necessity enlarging
along with the widening range OF those interests
and sentiments and while American Hberalty
has well earned the right to snare in reaping the
fruits OF Llvingstone's work. the hun ing-out of
TIE African slave trade and the solution of the
yet abiding mystery OF the central portion of that
continent are topics which obviously concern and
attract every intelligent Englisnman. To bring
to light the wickedness of the trafic In human
nesh is the best road towards It's abolition;
and we cherish the hope that this joint en-
terDrse may furnish valuable Information to
the Legislature and to the British government,
whose credit is bound up with the final success of
the movement set on loot by the treaty of Sir
Bartle Frere. At present. as IS only too we'll
known, that treaty, concluded with the Sultan OF
Zanzibar, has not obtained the results expected.
An Infamous and lucrative traf1ic, but imperlecty
revealed by The Official Information recently COM
municaJed to Parliament, still tnrlves along the
instructions of our Joint commissioner to see with
his own eyes, far as possible, the methods the
haunrs and the character OF this nelarious trade,
be ore advancing INTO the interior. Tnis was as
suredly one Of the duties bequeathed TO us by the
noble minded Livingstone. Everybody knows
that the burning desire TO ria Africa OF that curse,
the slave driver, lay even nearer to the great ex
pOrer's heart than his ambition to unlock her
hidden secrets and to I'LL up the vast mvs-
FERROUS blank spaces OF her map. For this he
chiefly toiled-for this he sought TO make his name
weighty, and his voice far heard-in order that,
living or dying, 1t might be strong to urge Eng
land on to the completion OF her historical duty.
In the sermon which Dean Stanley delivered over
the ne WHY closed grave of this great the SUBJ
ioined words occurred -''There arose in his noble
breast as he wandered on among them, the pas
siOnate w1sh ever mounting to higher and yet
higher pitch OF burning Indignation and fierce de-
termination, to expose. and exposing, 10 strike
fatal blow at that monster evil which, by general
testimony, is the one prevailing cause OF African
misery and degradation--tne European and Asiatlc
slave trade. he grappled with it vigorously and
1t recognized IN him its most formidable foe. In the
struggle he pershed, too soon alas for him TO know
how nearly he had succeeded-not. trust, too soon
Tor us to secure that his success shall be accom-
plished, so that the work which IN its commence
side OF the name of Wilberforce shall in its CON-
pletlon shed the chief glory on the name OF Lv-
jngstone.r II s one OF the bequests, we say, OF
Livingstone to the English speaking peoples that
they should let the light IN upon this evil and eX
trpate it; and, therefore, one steadfast object
recommended to Mr. Stanley-whO, perhaps, more
than any other man, has the right to administer
10 LivingstOne's testament"-will be to search out
and reveal what this slave traffic really is in Its
s'dark places"
The second and scarcely less momentOus be-
Uuest of the ustrious dead is rs certainly the
completion OF his geographical researches This
duty also stands intimately connected with the
future regeneration OF Africa; indeed, the two
undertakings belong naturally to each other, for
when Africa shall once be delivered from the i'm
memorial terror OF the slavcrs, then her uprsc
must depend ur0n her natural resources and lines
OF internal communication Livingstone always
saw and felt how intimately his mission Of human
ity and his scientific researches were linked to-
gether; and the patient traveller who found
rest at last in Ilaa worked for the future OF
Africa as directly as the fearless pen which
brought an English Plenlpotentlary 10 Zanzibar
and the faithful hand which told us the truth
about slavery In the course OF his vast wanderings
Livingstone wrought also, stupcndous WORK
for science; but he left it necessarily incomplete.
The same eloquent discourse already quoted con :
tains the following passage THE blank OF uneS
plored regions which in every earlier map formed
the heart of Africa Is disclosed to us, adorned
with those magnificent forests, that chain of
lakes, glittering'-to use the native expression
nike stars In the desert; those falls, more
splendid, we are told, even than Niagara, which
no eye OF civilized man had ever before beheld
where above the far resounding thunder OF the
cataract and the dying comets of snow white
foam and the rising columns OF ever ascending
spray, and the bright ranbows arching over the
clouds the simple natives had for centuries seen
the emblem-the glorious emblemof everlasting
Deity--the uuchangeable seated enthroned above
the cbangeable And to Livmgstone's untiring
exertIons continued down to the very last efforts
of exhausted nature, We owe the gradual limita-
zion of the basin within which must at last be
found those hidden fountains that have ured on
aGer uelIer and nave hitherto hafilel