Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-28
% Broad street mills building),
New York, August /, 1889.
A Crusade Against the Slave Trade.

To the Editor Of the transcript: Africa
and the Afncan people are suffering at the
present time au appalling amount of mis-.
cry through the enormous development of
the slave trade and slave raiding through
out the length and breadth of that vast
continent.
DR.. Livingstone, in his time, groaped
over the terrible evils and horrible cruelty
and desolation which the Arab, and in
some cases, the Portuguese traders inflicted
on the countries comprised in the basin of
the Zambesi and Lake Nyassa, and he
earnestly prayed that so G measures might
scourge of Africa.
General Gordon, while Governor of the
Equatorial Provinces of the Egyptian Sou
dan, witnessed and graphically described in
his letters and journals the scenes of savage
cruelty and suffering, and while Governor
did all that he could TO suppress the slave
trade in the provinces bordering on the
basin of the Nile valley.
But since these two good and great men
have passed away the Arab raids have in
creased to an alarming degree everywhere
throughout the great continent of Africa
but more especially in the tract of country
extending from the Egyptian Soudan in the
north TO the Zambesi in the south. and
from the Zanzibar coast on the east right
across the continent to the basin of the
Congo.
Cardinal Lsvigerie, the well-known and
much-respected Archbishop of Algiers
who knows Africa personally, and who mas
made the question of African slavery
lifelong and special duty, estimates that
the enormous number of two millions of
lives are now being destroyed every year
on the African continent through the hor-
rors of the slave trade
Captain Cameron, the African traveller
and explorer, and other African authori-
ties confirm this estimate of loss of life as
not being in excess of the actual facts of
the case.
Every minute, Cameron wrote lately
in magszine, a fresh victim is seized by
the slave stealers. Not an hour passes
without more than fifty being killed or
torn from their homes and during this
month of August, of which ! write, forty-
five thousand more victims are being added
to the number of those who appeal to MS
for aid and protection, from some of the
fouleSt criminals that ever disgraced the
earth"
To heal this great open sore wound of
the world, why cannot the earnest and
high minded men and women of America
unite With those of Great Britain In en-
deavoring, if possible, to discover and carry
out in combination some measures which
will effectuslly remove and suppress dur
ing this, the last decade of the nineteenth
century. this horrible scouree of Africa
and give peace, light and liberty to the
Dark Continent2
We are, however, strongly opposed to
employing or introducing military force
and measures into Africa. We have had
in times past far too much fighting in
Africa. We can only advocate methods of
a moral, religious or pacific character.
There are several measures which may,
with advantage, be tried. For instance
there is a great central highway some four
thousand miles in length, which can be
navigated by steamers for the greater part
of its entire distance, commencing on the
Nile al Berber, Immediately opposite the