Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11

ing to please section. Let there be one rule
| for North and South. Other things being
| equal freedman has Just as good right to
| have his vote counted as a white man. Demo-
cratic shotgun supremacy will not be endured
| forever by the nation. The other things that
ought not to be forgotten are local defense, CO.
operation, Federal appointments at home and
abroad made by men who are not in sympathy
| with ex-SlaYe holders continual and immediate
elimination of fraudulent Representatives in
Congress.
Mr.. Cooks second lecture in the course
on vital questions in church and state fol-
lowed. It's subject was the regeneration Of
Africa. The speaker said:
THE SECOND LECTURE.
1t is a famous remark of Victor Hugo that
the nineteenth century has made of the slave
man and that the twentieth will make in Africa
a world. My chief anxiety is to follow the d.
vine programme in history. Now, what are we
seeing with our own eyes of that great arc of
Gods purposes, in which, if we measure a short
curve, we will find law of the wholeP Three
great events match each other so mysteriously
that can see in them nothing else than the
hem of Gods garment
FIRST, we have seen the abolition OF slavery
in the valley of the Mississippi Secondly, we
have seen the abolition of slavery in the valley
of the Amazon. Thirdly, we have seen the
opening of the Congo Valley to civilization.
Who or what has so arranged modern history
that these events synchronize? Some of you
remember when slavery went out from Con-
necticut and the region of the Hudson. We
have seen it swept from the valley of the Poto-
mac We have seen the rivers that enter the
Gulf clesnsed from the dripping perspiration
and from the blood of unrequlted toll. We
have seen the Father of Waters flow into the
sea without yoke on his neck.
BUT THE BEGINNING.
Tho oboI;t;on 80 slo ,,or,, ~ &ho TTn;tad Stotae
SO inspirited Brazil that the Amazon soon saw
it no longer. But, meanwhile, the interior of
of Africa was opened. commerce began to
thunder at gates, Christianity lifted her head
on these shores, explorers brought out
before our wondering eyes the mysteries of the
dark country, and now to-day the nations OF
Europe are competing with each other in
colonial enterprises in Africa. They are run
ming the race of political and commercial
greed.
The slave trade has been abolished along our
own coast but we have maintained full men,
trality among the efforts of the nations to put
1t down elsewhere. Only III loose way we
have kept our engagements to put down piracy
on the seas. we were represented at Berlin
conference for the African free State of the
Congo, but we have kept out OF entangling
foreign alliances.
1t is high time that Americans should assist
in the suppression of the slave trade and of the
rum trade on the land Of Africa. Archdeacon
Farrar says there are facts which justify him
in the assertion that the slave trade is already
surpassed by the rum traffic in the injury which
it does along the banks of the great central
river in the dark continent.
A NEW FEATURE.
In the accessible regions souls and bodies
burned up by the rum traffic are more numer-
Gus than those destroyed by the Arab slave
trade. What are some of the remedies for the
present state of things? They are both exter-
nal and internal. In considering the external
we must consider what has been said lately by
the conference of the opponents of the slave |
traffic at Brussels. This conference rejected |
the English proposals for maritime blockade, |
but the conference is agreed that the interior |
of the continent should be garrisoned. should |
be willing to have Congress assist line of |
steamers to introduce American trade on the |
banks of the Congo The trade of the Congo is |
to become immensely important to America.
You give millions for rinter-communicatlon on |
the land and give nothing for the same on the |
high seas And so the4 other nations will get |
the foreign trade, and we shall go without it. |
England means to have as good market on |
the Congo by and by as to-day on the Ganges.
Parliament has already determined that no
nation is to have chance on the banks of the |
Congo without the consent of England But |
what has Africa to sell? Not men any more,
thank God, but almost everything else.
BILLIONS IN IT.
There are billions in traffic with her. There
are now six railways in progress of construction
into. the interior. America sleeps IN this mat
ter everywhere except in the mission rooms.
Some good men see that missions must make
haste and antedate commerce. 1t is for the
interest of Europeans nations to settle the
question whether the Europeans or the Arabs
are to govern Africa. Slave tradingIs a FASH
ion still clinging to the dark, continent, and !
when it is stopped we shall begin to hear the !
cry for the abolition of slavery itself from the
to the Cape of Good Hope. On
the Congo you will find bright intelligent ne
groes; such tribes include among the internal
forces for reform. So are missions an internal
force. Black immigration is also to be made
great force in Africa. 1t ought to be the sub
lime ambition of colored man to give his life
to the elevation of the black race in Africa.
1t is ground of hope for the future of the
best races there that they already regard the
trained black man Of other civilized nations as
their friends and their natural leaders 1t has
been well said that nature has determined that
Africa must be regenerated by Africans. The
supreme hope for US is that we continue Chris
5ians. And if Americans are led by God, our
faces will be turned toward Africa in the next
half century. But whether in the American
sky or in the African we shall behold Gods
hand dwTiting. one message revealing our duty
md His purpose: Let the oppressed go free,
preach the gospel to every creature"