Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1889 — Stanley and the African Slave-trade. [ARTICLE]

Stanley and the African Slave-trade.

Probably no man has ever excelled Stanley in his wise treatment of the Africans. He seems to have a natural instinct of the best way to manage these people, who cc bbine great childishness, with natural ferocity. Stanley is firm, but kind, considerate, and generous. The natives know that lie is strong, and they have faith in his honesty anal truth. He has managed the savages, with wonderful skill. The slave-traders hate and fear him, and many people have thought that if he were ever surprised and cut off in Africa it would be by the malice of these bad men, who fear for their trade. Stanley, like Livingstone, saw enougli of the horrors of the slave-trade to be in deadly earnest to do all that lay in his power to stop it. Tippoo Tib, the Arab trader, has long been a slave-dealer, though he has pretended to give up that horrible traffic since he has been associated with Stanley. Very likely, if he ever got a chance to go into the slave-trade again, without being found out, he would do it. And, if Stanley stood in his way, some men think Tippoo Tib would nob hesitate even to kill Stanley, and so be lid of him. Tippoo Tib is now a very great man in Central Africa. He is enormously rich, and he can raise a. force of many thousands of men whenever he has occasion to call for them: It is singular that it should not be thought necessary to send a search expedition for Stanley, after all that he has done in that direction himself. . But Leopold., King of the Belgians, and others, devoted friends of Stanley, propose to do this very thing, unless news of the the White Pasha’s safety comes to us. —Noah Brooks, in St, Nicholas ,