St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-14

leader of the anti-slavery cause in that
country, in an address delivered in Lon
don about two years ago describing the
country, said: 1.-The nature of the soil,
the heat of the sun and the abundance
of water contribute to make this coun-
try one of the richest and most beauti-
full in the world-truly an earthly par
adise. The population also was, and in
some provinces still is. very numer-
GUS and happy and peaceable.
L. Is this population which
Islam is discriminating at this
moment by means of her slave hunters"
Henry Drummund, in Tropical Africa,
says: 1.-The life of the native African
is not all idyll. 1t is darkened by
tragedy whose terrors are unknown to
any other people under heaven. Among
these simple and unprotected tribes,
Arabs-uninYited strangers of another
race and nature-pour in from the north
and east, with the deliberate purpose of
making this paradise hell. Already
they hold the whole continent under
one reign of terror. The do it for one
Object-iyOry and slaves: for these
two are one. Arab encampmentS for
carrying on wholesale trade in this
terrible commodity are now established
all over the heart of Africa. They come
upon the scene suddenly: they stay
only long enough to secure their end,
and disappear, only to return when
new crop has arisen which is worth the
repeating. Sometimes these Arab
traders will actually settle for year OF
two in the heart of some quiet conf
munity in the remote interior. They
pretend perfect friendship; they modest
no one; they barter honestly. They
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bleS and fruits the Arab always carries
seeds With him-as it they meant to
stay forever. Meantime they buy ivory
tusk after tusk, until great piles of it
are buried beneath their huts and all
their barter goods are gone. Then one
day, suddenly, the inevitable quarrel is
picked. and then follows a wholesale
massacre. Enough only are spared
from the slaughter to carry the ivory
to the coast; the grass hutS
of the village are set on FIRE; the Arabs
strike camp, and the slave march, worse
than death, begins"
Another writer describes the march.
The first to weary are killed by blow
from a bar made tor that purpose to
brighten tine others. The corpses of
those killed remain where they fall. SO
that it has been truly said that if a
Traveller lOSC Tue way ieddlnS from equal
torial Africa he could easily find it again
by the skeletons of the negroes with
which it is Strewed. The MOhamme-
dan belief on the question
of slavery was alluded to, and
the conclusion drawn that the princi-
Piles of morality on this subject can
have no force with that form of belief.
The powers, always greedy for terri
tory, will before lcng give the signal to
advance, and that signal will be the
death of the African slave trade.
He closed by speaking in high praise
of the work of the Catholic church in
this matter. and of the great Protestant
and Catholic nations who have heark
ened to the voice of her ministers.
Other numbers on the programme
were piano solo by Miss Hattie Hart,
song by J. F. Gehan, song by j. z.
Banks, cornet solo by E. Smith, duet
by the Misses Vallee, piano solo by
Miss Josie 0'Keefe, recitation by Miss
Carrie Vallee, all address by Rev.
Father Harrison, and an address by the
secretary of the society, E. j. Cannon.
This is the young gentleman who passed
such a creditable examination before
the supreme court. The president
urged all to attend the anniversary en-
tertainment next Friday, and the enjoy
able affair ended.