Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-11-24

victory and confident in themselves will |:
naturally increase as they extend their I
cordons, until they have driven the last J
Arab slave-stealer from their coasts. And !
then they will be able to hold these coasts |
against all the Arab or other slave-stealers
in the world.
And while the fire of war burns on the
outer circle, driving away the upholders
and disciples of desp1cable and cruel bar
barism, the work of evangelization and
civilization will proceed with equal strides.
The missionary and the teacher will be
the companions of the soldier-knight. The
church and the school-house will be
planted everywhere; and the arts of peace
will grow within the protecting shields of
Mars. Agriculture and manufactures will
be developed; and very soon commerce
would find innumerable entrances, ulti-
mately hindrances nowhere; the steam
boat on the broad rivers, the locomotive
over the rich lands, would carry streams
of immigrants, who, mingling with the ma
tive population, will become continual
evangels of Christiandom's civilization.
We must recollect, too, that when we
speak of Africans we do. not mean the
negro as found in America. There are
various races in Africa, just as there are in
Europe and in Asia. To speak of them as
one in race would be as ridiculous as to
Jumble up the Englishman, the French
man, the German, the Spaniard, the Rus
sian, the Italian, and all the rest, clubbing
them Europeans, and refusing to recognize
any race distinctions or characteristics
about them. Nay, there are even greater
distinctions in Africa than in Europe The
negro OF America was drawn from the
Congo regious mainly, if not exclusively,
while the Zanzibar coast supplied most of
those Of the Portuguese and Spanish set
Elements. The Bushman and the Zulu are
as far apart as the degraded Digger
Indian and the fierce Cheyenne.
The further explorers have pene-
trated toward the northern part of
Africa, the higher have they found the
type of being and the lighter the
skin in the central plateaus are king
doms with walled cities and towns, whose
people have skins as light as many races of
Europe, and lighter than some In hair
| and features they also resemble Europeans,
though, of course, they have strange Gus
toms, strange religions, and strange forms of
civilization. DIR. Livingstone years ago
spoke of these races north of Lake
Tanganyika; Stanley has told us of them,
and many other travellers have given us
glimpses of them. Perhaps these people
have, among themselves, a history as varied
and as interesting as that of Europe, from
contract with whose civilization they have
been cut off since the historical epoch. In
considering these facts, we must recollect
that Africa is vast continent, and that
estimates of her population at from 100,-
100000 to 300,000,000 are only guesses
which may be under the true number.
In justice, also, to the genuine Arabian,
we should say that the slave-hunters are
either the degraded serfs of the Turkish
power along the coast, or else not Arab,
even in name, but merely the wandering
tribes of Syria and Palestine, and the adj
venturers of all races in Egypt and along
| the eastern coast of Africa. The real Ar.
abians Of the interior-the Sejd territory
have never bent to the Turkish SWAY.
but still preserve their proud independ-
ence, as in the days when the skiing of Ar
aba visited Solomon, and when Mahomet
started them to conquer startled Asia and
| Egypt. They have none of the Turkish
customs, superstitions, or slave-holding
practices, and it would be shame to con-
found the true, chivalric, genuine Arabian
with the skulking, cruel, "Arab" slave
hunter, whose forefathers have long lost
or else never possessed, single character
istic of the real race.-Hugh p. MeElroae
IN Christian Union.