Evening journal., 1890-12-04
THE AFRICAN CON0EST.
Stanley Points with Pride to
His Achievements.
WRECK OF THE REAR COLUMN.

Time Upon a World Famous Contro- |
versy-Hls scathing Arraignment of
NIessrs. Herbert ward and j. X. Troup |
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-For the FIRST time in |
public Henry M. Stanley lectured on the |
rear column scandal at Chiokering hall |
last evening. Mr.. Stanley prefaced his |
dramatic recital by the statement that 1t |
was as cruel and unjust to slander and |
yilify the living as the dead. Continuing
he said:
why He Tells the Story.
Il happened that on the 8oth Of August, 1898. |
surrounded by about forty. two dying men aud |
grieYng over the loss Of I6i men Of the rear col
umn OF my expedition for the relief Of EMU, and |
shocked by the terrible disclosures made hy the |
surviving officer wrote 10 my report 70 the re |
lief committee that the rear column had been |
wrecked by the rresOlution of its officers the neg
lect Of their promises and their indifference to
the written orders. This censure seems TO nave |
provoked and to have occasioned the publication 1
Of a libelous bnok called 'The Diary and Letters
Of Maj Bartteot," and TO have aroused the hos.
tility OF the Barttelot and Jameson families and
the recriminatons and angry accusations uf
hessrs. Troup aud ward But the publication Of
Maj, Barttelot's diary and letters has caused the
public to denounce me AS cruel and unjust to the
dead as well as 70 the living Ny life Of African
exploration has been a life given up TO the service
OF humanity and civilization. / am proud and
thankful that my name Is known throughout AZ.
rca as just man who desires peace and Is as q
father to his men
His Instructions 10 Barttelot.
He had never doubted the rear column
officers until Bonny had told him the dis.
NAL story of the command
On June "a. 1877, delivered this letter OF nstrnc
ti0us 10 Maj Barttelot. THE reason for OBTAINING
the column as garrison pro TEN. Tor Yamhuya was
the non-arrival Of goods and men from Boloho
aud Stanley Pool. But as I shall shortly expect
the arrival OF a strong reinforcement OF men
meaning Tippu Tbs COO carriexs-f hope you will
not be detained longer at Yambuya than few
days after the arrival Of the Stanley from Stanley
Pool in August And then Indicated what goods
lac could dispense with or throw away left 12s
men, exclusive OF boys, under Mai Barttelot who
when joined by the 100 men from Bolobo would
form a rear column. BaFttelot, Jameson Troun
Ward and Bonny were tho officers detailed 10
conduct the rear column after us / selected the
healthiest men to form the advance column
When we left there were hve men Of the rear
column Frustrated by illness but many others
were weakly and many had small ulcefs little
rest and attention, however, 70 their needs would
restore them, after six weeks rest, to perfect
health
Surgeon Park examined the supplies of food in
the neighborhood. He reported that there was
enough food 70 last the garrison of Yambuya for
years Exclusive OF this | left twelve loads 81
rice, seven loads Of biscuits and one load or salt
| Mr. Troup broughtseyen loads OF biscuits, twenty
loads OF rice eight loads Of salt and two cases of
Madeira wine
It Was a Changed Column.
Having arranged everything that was essential
| for the conduct Of the rear column, we then the
advance column set out for Yanbuya on June e.
| 1887 and on Aug. Il, 1883, fourteen months later
/ we returned from the Albert Nyanza IN search Of
| the rear column, Of which no news had been
| heard, and on arriving at a village ninety miles
east Of Yambuya we found the rear column In
the pitiable state already described Messrs
/ Troup and Ward now criticise with greHt subtlety
| my letter Of Instructions. In Africa ii might
have been necessary for me, II such crooked con
/ struction as they now use we're systematically
/ placed on the simple orders, 70 adopt severe
measures 10 compel them 20 see truly what was
| intended they should see But the calamlties be-
long to the past and there is no necessity for me
70 Le otherwise than dispassionately just.
Reasons for His Censuro.
After describing how the officers OF the
rear column came TO 90 to Africa with
him, Mr.. Stanley said:
II was not until Aug II, 1883, fourteen months
after separating from them, that discovered
i reasons for publicly censuring the officers OF the
BY the Official report and oral accounts OF the sur
l rving officers Of the rear column; by the testi
monies OF the colored men, -Zauziharis Sondan.
ese and Manyuema- belonging 10 IL, and by the
awful state Ia which forty two men were found
| by us. Il therefore devolves upon me now to ex-
| plain the reasons Of this censure You have read
the statement in The Times signed by william
| Bonny Imagine that terrible story detailed to
| me in much the same way as II has been written
Imagine him telling me that bis leaaer had been
so violent In his conduct as b DO IN the habit OF
| stalking about in the camp, terrifying the moor
people out of their senses BY bis demoniac con
! duct logging two men 10 death, knocking Man.
yueInas brains out kicking boy so seriously that
| be died, shooting soldier for stealing a piece Of
meat aud then telling me that while in The act Of
hitting and kicking chiefs wife be had been
shot by the infuriated husband.
Imagine him telling OF another officer having
bought little i0year-old girl and surrendering
her into the hands of the cannl5als, who re-
slaughtered her on the spot In order that his
curiosity 20 see an act OF cannibalism might be
gratihed, Imagine the Zanzibaris and Soudanese
| followers Of the expedition emphasizing these
terrible stories with gestures, looks sghs heart
rending CALCULATIONS, showing their SCARED and
ulcered backs, and pointing 70 their thinned mum.
| bera- and fOrtY-twO miserable men even then dy.
lng in my presence. Imaging me hearing that
Ward Troup and Bonny came up 20 this moral
swamp at Yambuya with f80 healthy men, and
after reading the instructions coming only 70 one
conclusion, that It was better to stay at Yambuya
as forward movement was impossible.
A Great Opportunity Lost.
Mr.. Stanley said that heretofore he had
not charged Troup, Ward and Bonny with
being disloyal or disobedient, but that
they were indifferent to the written in
structions. that they put them aside and
followed their own iuclinations
But If IL be true that Mr.. Ward publicly pro
posed that my instructions be cancelled and
Barttelot's ideas carried out would not be ius
titled in supposng there was something more
than indfferencef And in the case Of Mr.
Troup. would / not be justified in using a stronger
word than indifferencel Granting that Bartteot
had been so offensive in his manner as 70 cause
Troups retirement, surely it takes two to make a
| quarrel II they had been earnest Ia the wish tC
leave Yambuya they could easily have done so
The track was clear before them. Their reputa,
tons we're in their own hands, to make or mar.
Nature had given them health, society had edn-
cated them, a large force Of men and abundance
OF supplies had been given them One thing
alone was wanting and that was the spirit 20
act and 70 perseEere in their work. What better
opportunities could five young men have had to
do beautiful and noble deeds and 70 prove them
selves thorough menf
Was Barttelot Tnsane7 ~ -
Mr.. Stanley said there were many things
he could not understand about the con
duct OF these men. He further said
Was Bartteiot lnsanes Then must Jameson
also have been insane Then insanity must have
overpowered the reason OF the three surviving
officers or am insane in supposlng these fearful
acts this stupid malignty, this remosseless cruel
ty this incomprehensbe perversity deserving OF
my censure. My criticism OF the three surviving