Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-12
THE AFRICAN LEADER.

The Irish (God bless them y are found
everywhere in the world, according to the
testimony of travellers, but surely the strang-
est and most unexpected place to find one of
the all-pervading race is among the negroes
of South Africa. It is quite as funny to
think of lot of negroes led by one Nc
Carthy as it is to fancy Mccarthy from
Limerick among them on any terms. 1t is a
salutary reversal of commonly received
belief in the mutual prejudice of the races,
without waiting for the millennium either. 1t
shows that an Irishman was willing to do
what the abolitionist has scarcely ever done,
that is to take up his abode or pitch his tent
with the blacks, fight their battles literally,
and identify himself completely with
their interests and mode of life. Indeed, so
we'll does Mr.. Mccarthy, chief of the UNI
zuzi tribe, love his people, that he would not
give them up to please his father-in- law,
whose daughter, now Mrs. Mccarthy, he had
borne off in an erewhile notable Irish method
that of abduction.
His father-in-law is rich Boer (this fact
is almost universally correct while the spell
ing may be tride irregular in some latituaes),
and he expressed wish to receive his daugh-
ter's Irish Kafir husband. How much of the
refusal is due to the vague apprehension of
mother-in-law of the Boer persuasion, too,
is not revealed. If the suspicion is half cor
rect the lady is avenged, for bold Nc
Carthy has fallen into the hands
of the English enemy. The biography of
Mr.. Mccarthy is thrilling enough ''for yell
low covers.'' He became unpleasantly
efficient in Fenian matters, while clerk in
Limerick, and being booked for suspicion
and espionage by the authorities, he emf
grated furtively to the diamond fields OF
South Africa. He made money, and profta
BILE Investments in London, besides contrib
uting interesting descriptive letters of that
remote land to the London Globe.
The life he lived was first like that of the
natives, and he became naturalized among
them. When their chief died MCCARTHY in
dulged in little coup d. etat, not quite 50
sweeping and sanguinary as that of Napo-
leon III. He dispatched with his own
hand half dozen aspirants to the
chieftaincy. How handy this effective
method would be, applied to a certain batch
of perennial Presidential candidates, and
how saving of the worry and uncertainty Of
unsatisfactory conventions.
The only failure of Mr.. McCarthy's ad-
ministration was in trying to christianize this
Umzuzi constituency, (which was surely nat
ural sequence, even in savage logic. He had
conceded so much to the native element
that it considered Macs demurring of the
aboriginal worship altogether too thin. This
triaing dissension between himself and his
adopted people will hardly make much differ
ence to the Fenian-Zulu, Mccarthy, now,
for he has been captured, and the heroic,
romantic combination will not commend
him to Sassenach court martial.
During the interregnum in the admins
tration CT Umzuzi affairs the United States
could furnish substitute for the valorous
and versatile MCCARTHY, with cheerful
spirit of accommodation, and that is Dennis
Kearney. Macmillan, (saving his presence,
wherever he is y was foisled on Mexi-
co, and the sand-lot orator might have his
ambition tempted by visions of diamond
fields and audiences to conquer among the
GWaZi people,