New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-22

It will, therefore, be fair 10 receive the
statement of the vote in tia towns, whila
our precedsnts, derived from the usages
of both parties would, if followed, lead TO
throwing oat those from places where CT
ganized violence prevailed
THE AIRlCAN TRAVELLER, STANLEY. As:
A BULLDtxER.
The, London Times notices protest
Of the committees of the AbOrigines' Pro.
lection and Anti-Slavery Societies with re-
epect to the proceedings Of Mr. Stanley, the
African traveller, at 8ambirch island, on
Lake Victoria Nyanzs.
Z appears that Nr. Stanley hai been
int:midated in this.
That at Bambireh the natives dragged
his boat ashore and assumed an attitude so
hostile that he appaehended sericas conse
quences to himself and to his patty.
He has described the attacks he and his
men made upon the natives. On one occa.
oeeded in dropping men determined on
launching the canoes. and, seeing a sab
chief, he took deliberate aim with his ele-
plant rifle at him and killed him and two
others who happened to be standing few
PAGES behind him. On getting out Of a
cove they saw two canoes loaded
with men coming out in pursuit from
another small inlet. They permitted
them to spproach within 100 yards, and
then used an elephant rife with explosive
balls. FOur shots killed Eve men and sank
the canoes. When the savsges counted
their losses they found fourteen dead end
wounded with ball and buckshot He
afterward determined to make war on
Bambireh, and accordingly he organized q
force of 28O men, fifty musketeers. with
230 spearmen, who we're placed in q flset of
eighteen canoes. The result of the attack
was that forty-tw0 were counted on the
field lying dead, and over 100 were seen to
retire wounded, while on Mr.. Stanley's
side only two men suffered Commissions from
stones slung at them.
himself and party corresponds somewhat
with the Democratic dread of "negro
mobs" at Hamburg and elsewhere. The
result of the combat reminds US of hum
dred battleields in the solid South.
Two canoes full Of men are permitted
to come within one hundred yards of the
elephant rifle and its explosive balls.
Four shots killed five men and sank the
canoes. The negroes lost fourteen killed
and wounded. Mr.. Stanley then organ
lied war against the negroes, in which
an additional mortality of forty-two was
inflicted upon them. The damage on the
side of Mr.. Stanley consisted in con-
tusions inflicted on two men by stones
slung at them. We have regarded these
savages as those which have attacked Cap
tain Cook and other great explorers. We
have not the least sympathy with them,
and consider Stanley-whose mission is
in great part the abolition of the slave
trade in Africa-as having rendered SER
vice to humanity and science by estab-
fishing the right of free transit. The
British government does not, however,
SO regard it. Lord Derby says:
His lordship has read, with great regret,
reports of the circumstances which seem to
have taken place 10 connection with the
explorations. and which have
created such painful impression in this
He informs the memorialists that be
can have no authority over an American
citizen; assures them that he will instruct
British consuls to interdict Mr.. Stanley
from using the British flag in his military
operations. He expresses the hope that
be
MAY eventually be able to sfford some
explanation CT justification of his proceed
ngs. which is not apparent from the re-
ports which have been as yet received.
And will
Forward copies of this correspondence
to the United States minister in London, in
order that he may be aware of the feeling
which the reports of Mr.. Stanley's proceed
ngs have aroused.
When we compare the equanimity with
which our fellow-citizens, who formerly
constituted an anti-slavery society, have |!
eceived the reports Of the colored thou
lands murdered or massacred in the |
southern States, with the "painful i'm
'ressions" which the bulldozing Of STAN
ey has excited in England, we can not re-
list the impression either that the philan-
hropists of England are super-sensitive,
he British Foreign Office extremely vigil
ant in defense of barbarians on the one |
and, or that the sentiment of sympathy
las grown very dull in our own land, and
hat our own government has been
from humane interven-
ion by the trammels of the con-
titution and law. When, however,
re see an English minister so moved
Y the horrors of what we consider pro-
er violence inflicted upon savages in the
cart of Africa, We feel convinced that
will appreciate any exercise of
Iwful authority exercised by the govern
tent of the United States to restrain or
unish a violence inflicted upon free citi-
ems of the United States, who represent
le same physical types with those foreign
ad unknown marauders whom Stanley
denounced for having slain.
N INSULT TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.
The professed respect for the colored
sople and the abject solicitation Of their
lpport by the Democracy is contra
cted at every turn by the violence and
,use showered upon them whenever they
fuse to respond to their very soft i'm