The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-24
HENRY NJ. STANLEY

Delivers An Address Upon the Congo
Country.
LONDON, Sept. is Henry NJ. Stanley, the
African explyrer, delivered an address to-
day before large meeting of influential cit
liens at Canal Street Hotel, upon the Congo
country, it's history, development and COM
mercial prospects and progress. The address
was received with prolonged applause.
Stanley said in 1872 he wrote
letter from Fleet street to
a friend at Banana, point on the Congo,
pointing out to him the ways in which he
(Stanley) proposed to open up the Congo
country to the world. In 1874 and 1879 he
west coast of Africa. He found a race
of natives who were willing
to trade with merchants who dealt
fairly on a bases of blood and brotherhood.
When he returned to Europe he found
several schemes under consideration for eX-
ploring the district, of which that of the
African Association proved to be the most
useful. Stanley Pool was gained by treaties
made with the natives, who ceded co the
African Association the sovereignty of the
land, and the association thereupon entered
upon its peaceful possession.
After entering into possession the associa-
tion invited the nations of the world to come
Applause On returning 10 Stanley Falls
he STANLEY found an Anglo-Portuguese
treaty had been concluded, and the Portu-
CUES said, mo, we will not allow this.
We founded Congo, and to maintaiA
our superiority, we must obtain lien dpon
all goods imported from Manchester" The
goods, said Stanley, were beads, wire, etc.
To this the association replied they had
spent nearly half million pounds in ster-
ling upon the basin of the Congo and wished
to extend further their communication
along the basin. Whatever concessions
privileges or immunity the association po-
sesses they wished to give away for the
benefit of bona fide travellers. The mission
aries and agTiculturists of the association
demand of Portuguese that he Stanley be
allowed to travel from England to Stanley
Falls without any further trouble or ex-
Pense than the regular passage money.
The association also protested against
the right OF the Portuguese tax.
Portuguese tax them for giving away money
freely to the philantrophic work. Stanley,
continuing, sketched the history of the
Congo River from the discovery of its
mouth by the Portuguese navigator,
Diego Camfour, 100 years ago, to the
time of the expulsion of the Portuguese
by the natives in 1890. In 1863
Lieutenant Grandy, of the Livingston Search
Expedition, passed through San Salvador, at
the mouth of the Congo River. Five years
later Stanley started and he had himself ar
rived there. The Protestant missions after
ward formed an English Baptist Society and
succeeded in establishing a mission near the
ruins of the old Catholic Mission House.
There was no historical evidence
on the banks of the Congo River
to prove the Portuguese ever possessed any
political establishment there whatever.
Stanley said further, that there is not one
single proof that the Portuguese ever erected
any fort, government building or Office upon
the Congo River. Dutch, English aud French
merchants made that river a commercial
mart