The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-03
EMIGRATION TO AFRICA.
AN ALLuRISG FIELD OPENING TO THE RETURN
ING SONS or THAT HISTORIC CONTINENT,

AN ALLUEISG FIELD OPENING TO THE RETURN
ING SONS OF THAT HISTORIC CONTINENT.
To THE EDITOR or TAR HERALD:-
The TACT that ly-,wo emgran,s TO sail to-day for
Liberia naturally awakens the question: To what sort
Of a country they goingY To many American
minds, after all that has been written, Africa Is
dread Wilderness pcopled Dy savages, and the lttle
settlement ut Liberia Is poor attempt 10 redeem
little tract OF this wilderness at the expense OF few
colored Anne sicans. graphing with bordes OF baroa-
rians Stanley is doing just now what noble iine
of English explorers before hIrn have been gradually
achieving. Up to ten years ago the American CONT
measure unoxplored, ITS wlds being an
Ell Dorado Tor adventure and gold hunting, quite as
III uch as Mexico Peru TO the Spanards three
centuries aud more ago. Aud now thoso VINO, Ike
Aiexander, sigh Tor more worlds TO explore and con-
quer, are MISUNDERSTANDING ayuin-to africa
Why tnat expression, burning again" 10 African
many Will ask simply because OF ths TACT. familiar
10 tho men VINO, In exploring Africa, know before
hand many things unknown to ordinary men. Cen
tral Africa was penelraled colony planted aud CON-
mercc opencJ by tie ancient Egyptians. Their sea-
sailed from the Red Sea, ROUNDED the southern
cape ana came back through the Mediterranean 10
the Nilc, as Hcrodotus shows inc Greeks, at later
era, penetrated where Livingstone ana Stanley havo
lately gone. Tho map OF Ptolemy. made about one
hundred years alter Christ, anticipated those
today and Greek rccords show the relies
oil Greek civilization Incorporated then iato
tho language Ot the people OF that era.
Just now explorers. Who Ike Livingstone, arc ns-
sionaries, are bringing out these wiiScsse, as the
vocabulary and grammar OF tho foriba language pub
lishcd NY the Smithsonian Institution, attests Last
came the Arab followers vi Mouanmcd; ana tho TACT
that all the tradc OF tho continent s carried ON by
Arab caravans AID that the Koran rs The classic COOK
through tie IntcfJr 10 the Western shoro 10 certainly
u premise Tor argument
Within years English enterprise, aided by
American adventure, wnl transform Africa. Tho
breaking down OF Mohammedan rule, first In Spun,
then IN Hungary then, ANA lately IN iaaia aud now
IN Turkey, shows that tho Nohammedan iaith sub
Jcctcd to the of its anu only claim, superb
onty with the sword rs losing us noid
alike IN Europe ana Asia, and that 1t
civilization, the commercial, Industrial, scicu-
the aud religious zeal OF England and America, has
found new hed lvr It's cgtofprsc, aud tho tide OF
adventure has set 10 this new channel
Stanley, like Livingstone, has airecily asked Tor
MISSIONARIES settle among the tribes OF the INTERIOR
opening cut from the centre to the west aud English
missionary societies veing with each otncr, as
they dia IN ludm sevcnty-lve years ago, IN seeing
vhU snail send tho FIRST men. Stanley, much moro
than Livingstone, Is oskIng for Christian coonists
who snail give the art OF civilization 70 these people
affecting their Industry that English merchants
may ind customers rcaiy iJr Their wares nj asri-
tural products proltaDlc of exchange Ia asposng
OF English manu- acturcs. STANLEY knows, Doter than
Livingstone did, whence alone those Immigrants can
The partial and dispafagng statements about Lii
IBERIA which have been reported from Washington IS
II the government gave them their sanction, hayo
been fully answered by tho testimony OF SUCCESSIVE
official agents, naval aud diplomatic, wno pave ocen
the coast ana IN the interior rom 1921 10 1871.
The colorcd people VINO there are assured by their
own counlry men VINO nave CONC before tncnl, well
Uy American commodore and minister's resident,
tht INDUSTRY win give them In Liberia teniod what
they ever gain ia America. H. however. IN any
respect disappointed Tue cmlsrants ol to-luy may
aspire wider ticd OF enterprise. They have ony
write IRON Monrovia, the capital Of Liberia to tho
society IN London that supports Stanley IN conjunc
ton with his American patrons oil Tue HERALD aud
they viii ind golden gates opening further inland
NEW York; Jan. =, 1878 u. W. SAMSON.