The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-05
WAR ON SLAVERY.
Cardinal Layigerie's Crusade
Against the Hideeus Trafise.
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4yb sud other Panssn. Afrsesa<.
Esasis Letter Jay u.
while the Americans RESTING 10
France, or passing through i y Ter
many. Switzerland. o. Italy, we're ceis-
hsaf:nx fssa siorious memories evoked
~ Independence Day. olse Of the most
fIIuStsioas men 20 whom France has
Given birth IN tAis century. and ere OF
fhe most ardent a8Snisers 81 Free
America. was hersinaEgaratiHz = nea
erusade against African slavery.
This i fbe venerable and heroic
Cardinal Iaysgerie. archbishop d
Cnf1&aee, ths organizeF and alfees"F
uo11us Roman Catholic missions arsuna
~ fxeat equatorial lake..
3dxing my stay ia Rome. IN 1851.
sI3Ar5iuai Isayigefie spent Haiifas titsF
- -. comforting with the poEe and
4 K1 nsx.pavafssia on the heas means o1
:. - = n ssfsbsislsnr missionary ccntsrs
z15| ms heart al tie dark continent
- are fso mighty enemies 81
frktiu,i among fbe tsesaing popu
III equatorial Africa the een-
uatnrs ~ the natives. addicted O.
n}tatisni, an9 knowing NorshlEs-
- ne god isst brutal faight AMI
1ohamnseslsnism, connected every
whore with the alsofalnable sFAiise Ii
slaves.
Evvn before issssg I.co Sfil. bad
RESTORED 90 life the order 81 Malta
Whose canonieal side ! that 81 Knights
uofpstaIegs u ~. John d iefasaieht.
Thn bull restoring tie order 70 is
rank IN the ctgset Was s~aei during
The iifst years 81 iiie pyeEet1i pofsiiise-.fe
The pope in recalling the order e. l.fe,
assigned b the grand master and b.
associates a monastery and hO-fltai
a Rome. ehere theY perform The
str,et dutlrs ealuiness Is their rule
Bat faw, under the issnt inspiration
Of the POPE AMI 81 Cardinal Iayigerie.
She knight. ~ Malta are givea rs At
riea nes iiell, where the members
can tiiSpIay fhsir hsfoism IN helping
g. put down Tie slave trade anil u de-
voting themselves. jointly with tiie
saissipnasies. Ia caring lot the bodily
and spiritual ills OF the afflicted native
rhcc8s
LEO XIII. does not intend that bis
eneyslicai letter on slavery piihishe&
On Gle occasion Of the late efs8nelp A-
ton movement in Brazil, shalt 10 linn
ited ia IT. benefits Ia thai vast empire.
or remain q dcAd lsttcr fer the other
GomRsries ot the old and New worlds
-Four hundred thousand human be-
ings, according H. Cardinal LaVigegBe,
are yearly torn away from their honea
In Africa afsA seia a. slaves by nends
In human form. principally dqban-
medan Arabs liit these t1.tNn are
less than nne-fsth al The tptai ulfabsr
who yearly fall victims "a this traffic
In human flesh. and 10 the acclrsefi
system OF warsarr - which she slave
traders HAYS Isaoasse.
In tbc raids carried Or, around the
great lakes and eisewlseTe IN Alfiea. e.
Oroeure SLAVES. little or no pains afc
takrn ~ capture tise Heu. strong men
especially These fasisi ami cause
their captor. too mach tFonhle 20 keep
and guard when taken. 40 the traders
9enefaiiv sh-dt down the men without
pity. eantenting themselves With seiz-
Ing women nad children and yoS8g
lads.
Ia sir Samnel liakers last works,
particularly iu his account Of GheeSpe-
tlitton undertaken hy him q suppress
thc slave tFade-in upper Egypt anj
along the source If the Nile. on have
vivid picture OF the horrors accom-
panyinF each ,atgia made by the slave
hunter pupHlaus Villages annihi-
lated, lhc habitationa burned the
crops aad cultivated fselds ruined the
smoking remains OF the villages stfc8n
with eerpses, and the road aiaag which
tho wFciehed eArtiyes afe drigen' 60
tile nearest slaye market lined wish
bleaching bones OF those who petished
OF were Killed on The say
Thus. for every slave. young or old,
brought 10 market. thter. toaf, Eve ii
his OF her eompAniens afesaefiacai 10
the cruelty 81 uic eapiaTs
Last sunday evening the great
church 81 - Aairlea was Elied t. -
utmost capacity ~ The elite II sil
Paris. cafae % hear tiIe eloquent car-
sllnasarel blshCp Of Carthage glgr The
fast 81 4 series 81 ieesarvs os African
slavery. lie il determined to gcnew
the sogslssliFiing Appeals nc Is making
here In thr eAicl eiiies ~ France agl
In all Continental e4Natriea.
A iaag of magnificent stature 81 :
rare learning and csequrnCe. wearing
n long hsars8, grown white teiorr lts
lime, the esssieal hAt dnoe mpth.
very much, for feiiElou api Uifiizi.
tsoa in Aigstla aiia Mefutea. le Dies
urgani6ins ciegsaal,g tar misAnns
aiong thc cntiee southern and eastern
coast, nsssl along tha equatorial lakes
lie iias vowel g. gise him se3i no
rest tsll he haa fetaSea g. activity the
zeal st AL Ghfistian nations against
the mpnStre0s abaHes of the African
riaYa trade,
The cleegs and pselage present.. g.
getl.er with the entire trAiy ef clerical
student belonging g. 81 saip5ec seus
nary, wesv seated iaIuntel the paipt
To tho e after psNeFiu'ly moving his
vast an8ireca 8f hi dusefigts0n ana
denuaciafinn of isFtf3 8ni slave huns
ing, The Israiaai ia ruuc'aaiaR AZ
sltessci h,nieif HE leoSEat cFerF
individual saons Chem o. hecome from
that meuNni d seai0n- au5 efficient
exponent u thc mlEhiy eyi. a1i its
aIsott0rs Ii IS safe so 500 thst ke at}
net appeal h vain
reeras net 60 have thc Cardinal
discourse g. 4uclc lepln Il b 1ssf
passing ttr0aea the rrv ka' isam
oae letter tAat be Ieft. au8 phieh pro.
aueel the deypc { imew i3a en- hi
hcageF ! must guete ivN rs asss
kn0Ning We'll th4t The ia3shing uarra-
tive vii ano q feaay Frhe ih Evecrcas
American tsosoNl
flse igtgcr WAS written iram kihsusa
on Lake fsagan'ka. nu SiiarlsN. Sd.
aud SNa383. &sh Dvtfailer tsS. 1854
ltcserises slsye-hani,ng rkit u.ala rs
one Mohammed. sra Aesh. under the
protection 81 Saii karsa 3 uit5n ol
xans.har ssnce JeeeaVs
1.-The l0senupp. t1ec 80 the nits
sion3gy writes "Psstes without lnc
dent Toward fttey Ne .se stser th..