The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-07-04
SLAVE TRADE In AFRICA.
ABRUrAL BUSINESS THAT SEEMS TO
BR ON FuE INCREASE.
Ths AtroeitIss o. slave March Dspietsd
with Painful DIstinetssss-rhs Fiag
sfs Great RSpablie Put % Base
ana Degrading Uss.

From "slsvery in Africa by. professor
Henry DrUmmond In ScrtbneTE
No one who understands how hu-
man life n estimated by savage peo-
pies will doubt the shocking and
revolving accounts OF travellers
regarding this phase Of the traffic ;
and no one who knows what an
Arabs heart In made Of will make
any discount even for the exagger-
alton Of an orator, as he listens 70
the following citation from q speech
delivered In London by Cardinal
LavigeTie:
MANS INHUMANITY.
1.-THE men who appear to be
strongest, and whose escape 10 to be
feared. have their hands tied, and
sometimes their feet, In such
fashion that walking becomes Q tor
ture to them; and on their necks
sre placed Jokes which attach
several OF them together. They
march all day; at night, when they
stop to rest, q few handouts Of raw
'sOrgho' are distributed among the
captlves. This Is all their food.
Next morning they must all start
again. But after the first day or two
the fatigue, the sufierings and the
pIiVations have weakened q great
many. The women aud the aged
are the first to halt. Then, In order
TO strike terror into this miserable
mass Of human beings, their con-
ductoTs, armed with = wooden bar
TO economist powder, approach
those who appear TO be the most ex-
hAusted and deal them q terrible
blow an the nape Of the neck. The
unfortunate victims utter a cry, and
fall to the ground In the commissions
Of death. The terrified troop imme-
diately resumes its march. Terror
has Imbued even the weakest with
new strength.
Each time some one breaks down
the same horrible scene II repeated.
At night, on arriving at their halt
ing place, after the first days Of such
. life, q not less frightful scene
awaits them. The trafilckers In hu-
man flesh have acquired by exps-
rienee q knowledge of how much
their victims can endure. A glance
shows them those who will soon
sink from WEAKNESS; then to ecOnO-
mise the scanty food which they
distribute, they pass behind these
Wretched beings aud fell them with
. single blow. Their cOrpses remain
where they fall, when they are not
suspended on the branches of the
neighbOring trees; and IL IL close Ia
them that their companions are
obliged to eat and sleep. But what
sleep! 10 may be easily imagined"
II l. nnnNasrh nt.r at.l,
with slaughter. Let the witnesses
stand down. Il the smoke of this
torment to go up forever and ever?
Remember that these deeds Of blood
and darkness are no isolated facts,
no temporary misfOrtunes. no mere
passing accidents of the savage
state. They are samples Of
sustained, anu carefully organic
ed system Of cruelty and muir
der which peryades aud penetratss
every corner of this continent. DO
not let IL be supposed that this hOr-
rOF II over, that this day OF tribula-
ton IL at an end. This horror and
this day are now. IL il not even
aLRtIng. Slavery il ON the increase.
Time, civilization, Christianity are
not really touching 4. No fact in
relation to the slave trade Is more
appalling than this.
The fact Of this increase, for a
time denied, then doubted, has nj
last been reluctantly admitted, even
by the government Of England. In
government blue book her
majesty's consul for tine SOmali
coast reports that "the slave trade
mas been very active Of late. On the
18th Of Sept. ClSSs), Capt. Gissing
captured three dhOws aud brought
two hundred and four slaves To-
Alden" The consul at Zanzibar
writes (September, 1851 TO the
Marquis OF Salisbury: There l.
marked increase I'm the slave traffic
carried on under the protection Of the
French flag" The consul further
states that dhows carrying French
cOlOrs were constantly and regularly
leaving for the COmOrO Islands,
MayOtta aud Madagascar, loaded
with slaves. In June, lSSS, Brig.
Gen. HOgg, dating from the Alden
resldency, wrote To the Bombay
government: al have the honor to
bring to the notice of government
that have from time TO time re-
celved reports Of the activity Of the
slave trade frOm the neighborhood
OF the Gulf Of TajOuTra ,snd deem u
my duty 10 inform the government Of
this fact with a view to such action
being taken as may be deemed
advisable"