The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-06

Southern Asia, over all of the new con-
tinent of Australia. to say nething Of
the British Isles, this Anglo-Saxon Race
has now complete command. 1t has its
stepping stones planted among the
islands of the Atlantic and Of the Pa
cific, upon the coast OF China, and at
the gateway of the Mediterranean and
OF the Red Sea. Wherever IL has gone,
there civilization has followed and COM
all, there is the singular fact that the
lAnglo-Saxon has never lost what he
laid hands upon. He gets all he can,
and keeps all he gets. From none Of his
acquisitions. has he ever been driven
back. To this the history of other races
affords no parallel.
And now comes AFRICA, itself conti-
|nent, tie Globes greatest Peninsula,
the land of aboriginal learning whence
the wisest of the Greeks derived their
science; the land of silence, of seclusion.
and of secrecy; the worlds great mys"
terry, with her hieroglyphic records ante
dating all ancient history. Recent
events are breaking that silence, invad-
ling that seelusion, unveiling that se-
icrecy; and from it's own granitic records
fexpounding that mystery OF all the ages.
Not only are its ancient records read and
translated into modern tongues, but its
interior regions have just been visited,
| its rivers and mountains andvalleys and
plains have been measurably explored.
Instead of finding there only barren
desolation, It's explorers tell the world
of productive plains and fertile regions
of vast expanse, watered by navigable
rivers, and yielding elements of wealth
IN unbounded variety and profusion.
These revelations concerning the in
terror OF that old continent of Africa are
as much a discovery as was the dis
covery of the new continent of America.
To all the world through all the ages
this knowledge has been sealed, Till now.
And now, once revealed, and thus tar
laid open, the interior of that Continent
can never again be effectually closed
Africa is destined henceforth to stand
forward as among the neighbors OF
earth's civilized races of men; and the
great problem will be, by which Of those
races is Africa itself to be civilized and
her resources developed?
A glance at the situation of things will
leave but small difficulty in the solution
of this problem. Already is that Cont.
nent surrounded by the power and pos
sessions of England. At every accessi.
BILE point and along every traversable
avenue England has already planted her
Colonies and is extending her power.
She commands the entrance from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean
ON the West by her fortress of Glbral ar.
She holds the key to the entrance of the
Red Sea from the Indian Ocean ON the
East by her possession of Alden. She
has her Colonies on the coasts of the
South Atlantic. She has her important
and powerful Colony at the southern ex-
tremity, the Cape of Good Hope. She
has her Island Colonies off the eastern
coasts in the South Pacific. She is now
threatening retributive war upon the
barbarian King Of Dahomey, and will
eventually acquire territorial foothold
there. And, still above all, she has just
acquired the commercial control of the
great valley of the Nile, and now holds
virtual dominion over the land of Egypt,
including the modern thoroughfare be-
tween Asia and Europe, by her control
of the ship canal across the Isthmus o1
Suez.
Thus it is that England has surround.
led this continent of Africa with Gordon
OF outposts, from which nothing car
Iprevent her from pushing her way from
all commanding points towards the inte
rior. That this will be done, none who
know England's desire Tor commerce
her historic greed for gain and lust o
dominion, can doubt. 1t is true tha
France has her colony in Algeria an(
Portugal her colony on the west coast
but both are feeble and ill governed
They would form no barrier agains
England's progressive movements to
wards the interior in search of the min
erals, the spices, the woods, the ivory
the hundred commodities which that in
terror affords, and which England 81
greatly needs for her manufactures a
home. IA. ...s..
We think therefore that 1t is merely {
question of time whether Africa shall bt
ruled by England as India now is; ant
that even the next generation after us
may see "British Africa" displayed
upon their maps of the world; and wit
ness the opening OF a new theater OIL
: that old Continent for the further prog
ress of the Anglo.Saxon race.
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CONGRESSMAN BLACKBURN fancied hi
had struck great political 'bonanzt
whom he presented his resolution calling
, upon the President for an account OF his
official acts done while absent from
Washington City, the seat Of Govern
ment. 3 ,