The New York herald., 1878-01-15
ALL PRAISE TO HENRY NJ STANLEY.
From the Pit.sburg Leader. Jan 81

FROM the rttspurg Leauer, Jan o.
Honors are lowing in thickly upon Stanley Afri.
canus, ana wc rejoice to think he richly deserves
them. He has been banqueted at Cairo and Alexan-
dria. Egypt and decorated by its Khedlve> Another
banquet awaits him At Marseilics, France. wc pro-
still another At Paris. But It will be in England
where he will be wined and ieted and toasted from
Lands End 10 John OGroats. The Queen viii prob
ably send for him again, as she did after his return
from anding LivingstoIc. Tho fact is. no African
explorer has ever done SO much In so small time
Stanley II has been fashionable docry him his
labors--especially in Engand--as II there much
OF the boasttul adventurer about him. Nothing
Is further from the truth. Du Chaillu
rdicued in the manner alter his travels ON the
Gaboon, his return from the canniba Fan tribe and
his with the formidable gorila but all his
discoveries strange as they appear, have
confirmed and now stand for truth.
IL Is said that the Khedive mad long conversation
with Stanley and evinced deep interest In the subject
Of his African explorations He spoke Of the intrepid
explorer the highest terms Tor his COURAGE and ex-
raordinary perseverance, In hrs many arduous ex-
PLOTS, and well be might. No one has shown
more grit, pluck and logged persistence the
OF innumorable difficulties and while environed by
nulti,orm ,of pofna ao lacks II is true, Living
may not have been 80 line and Humanitarian
as those of the great missionary but in courage, In
unfaltertng enthusiasm and in sleadast
he Is inly Livngsoncs equal while Ia DASH In sidn
aud in his marvellous executive and managing abttics
Stanley was-we say IT with true respect, almost with
revcrencc-that great explorers superior They arc
not In any manner 10 be considered, however, us
rivals, but as brother workers in a common cause.
The two men were essentially dineront Stanley had
mon and means In abundance, aud fought every sep
Of his way through hostile tribes with whom both
Livingstone and Cameron were rejected suitors Tor
transit, and who had both to turn away oaiied aud
utterly displrted
NEw YoaK HERALD and the Lonaon Telegraph the
muniacent SUN ol $4,000 This looks large, but u
does rot look narrowly into tho motives
OF men. What induced those Two newspaper pro-
prieors to undertake. this strange and hercuiean
tcrprise s mono oil our, Is none OF The worlds, busi
ness GIVE them the benefit OF the doubt Grant II
you please that tney were moved by what the moral
PHILOSOPHERS call "mixed motives" what theuf
should that obscure besmirch their we'll
earned iameg BY no means Their spirit
could have spent Rheir thousands IN pron.-
gacy, in gaudy .ostentation, In gilded luxury,
but they chose u direct their wealth into wise and
wholesome channels tor tho benefit Of the world and
Tor the suppression OF that sum OF all vlanies tho
horrible slave tradc. This Is now the great over
ley reached Zanzibar nc opened the eyes and enhght
ened the mind OF the Sultan there with reference 10
nefarlous traffic. We trust, TOO, he moved the
naughty Arabs conscience. Did Stanley speak as
boldly to the Knedver The record silent on that
point, and yet Is through the Sultan ol Zanzibar
and the Khcdive OF Esypt-noL openly, but IN.
diroctly-that tho inland Slave trado Of Africa Is still
One wonders that when Stanley came out on the
west coast at the mouth OF tho Congo, he did not
turn home Gibraltar instead VI ihe roundabout
course OF doubling the Cape OF Good Hope and via
Zanzibar, Alden aud Suez Tnis brings out pleasant
trait OF his character and reveals the truo secret OF
HIS wonderful inuuehco his way ward and carpr
cious followers. IL was that he might mako good his
pledges TO his trusty band AMI return them to point
whence they could easily reach their homes TINS
business he would ntrust TO oher but attended to
himself with scrupulOus regar tor thor needs and
wishes. AT the Cape Town banquet he would lot be
seated until ho saw them all comfortable and well
served, and the childish deYht aud almost reverence
which those faithful followers showed his presence
teslifes tho rdnary hold which his unquail-
ing, indomitabe courage hal taken OF their SIMPLE
trusting natures.
All homo. t. a man who, amid his gorcs, does
not forget the humble followers aided him TO OBJ
tain them.