The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1872, Page 4

‘What the Herald Has Proved An Array of Fac-Similes and a Mountain of Proof. Another Letter to John Livingstone. AMERIOANISMS AND SOOTTICISMS. ‘The accumulation of convincing evidence laid efore the public needs no confirmation after the certificates of identity of Livingstone’s handwriting im his letter to the HeraLp. The puerile idea of comparing the chirography of Mr. Henry M. Stanley ‘with that of Livingstone’s letter to this journa; ‘eriginated, it is to be hoped, in a laudable desire to Prevent any imposition being practised upon the HERALD and through the HeRaxp upon the millions who read it. The humanity of this desire is thoroughly appreciated, and although the enter- prising medium through which it challenged public opinion proves to have been egregiously mistaken, there 1s nothing easier than 0 credit the Sun with the highest and Purest of motives. This being done avec effusion, 4t will be in place to recall the stand of the HezaLp throughout the chirographic controversy. Serene im the consciousness of right, it calmly reprinted ‘the Sun’s Stanley-Noe suc-simile, about which so ‘mach had been said, and deliberately repeated its active contemporary’s humanitarian question about the aileged similarity between the two styles. ‘The three /uc-simtles were engraved according to ‘the same process, and all taken from manuscript Aetters; but the Huraxp smiled under every inch of its surface at the idea that Stanicy wrote more than two of them or that Livingstone Wrote more than one. The family, the friends, the government of the great explorer did all the rest that the HegaLp required. More smiles, always kindly ones be it remembered! ‘It was always a small matter, this thing of Noe and the humanitarian cotemporary, but a great cause has often been temporarily ruined by a mere pin. prick maliciously and dexterously administered, and the HERALD, with its semper vigilans reputation, could not allow even a pin-prick. Among the letters received on this matter at the ‘HgEawp office, the following will show that a fur- ther demand for proof is made even by true be- HMevers:— MORE KNOOK-DOWNS WANTED. ‘The tens of thousands of believers in Mr, Stan- iow Sl work are anxious to see a fourth Jac- of chi phy in the HERALD. Give us an- other “knock-down argument” for the doubting ‘Thomases, in the form of a Jfac-simile of a letter ‘written before Stanley’s discovery, and let it be ‘one respecting which there can be no doubt as to ite hat been Cin tay by Doctor Livingstone'’s ‘ownhand. Your readers are impatiently awaiting vhe final proof, and I am sure you will gratify us as g00n a8 practicable. M,N. M. In reply the HeRaLp respectfully refers “M. N. N.” to the accompanying pages:—Gentlemen came forward with perfect willingness, who asseverated onheasitatingly their beliefs. Mr. W. F. Stearns was the frst, and the first and last page of one of the letters which he received from Dr. Livingstone, and which he kindly placed at the HsRaLp’s disposal is reproduced by the engraver’s skili to-day. Dr. Straznicky, Recording Secretary of the American Geographical Society, was another. He placed in the editor's hands another letter, the first and last page of which the engraver presents in to-day’s HERALD also. From England came a number of the London Graphéc which had presented to the English public & Jac-simite of the Doctor's authority to Mr. Stanley to act in certain regards. This has been accurately transferred to a graven plate and challenges the American public herewith. On the opposite page Q® Jac-simile of the first page and concluding paragraph of Doctor Livingstone’s letter to the HERALD stands forth. These four specimens o! the Doctor's handwriting cover a space of nearly ten years. The American Geographical Society's letter was written in 1962, the letter to Mr. Stearns in 1866, the letter to the Heratp in 1671 and the “authority” to Mr. Stanley in 1872, The closest examination of these is invited. They are the product of one hand and one only. Experts will find occupation in it for hours or for days; the gencral public will be satisied at a glance. The conclusion in all cases will be the same—the man who wrote one wrote all; that man Dr. David Livingtsone. Certificates enough have been poured in upon us to satisfy us on all points. ‘The “fancyographers” who played such tricks with the explorer’s discoveries have been rebuked; the acute mare’s-nesters who objected to his “Ameri- canisms” have been flattened ont, from the great champion of “twaddle” and the hero ef “skeedaddle” to the “bulbous-below-the- ribs” brigade. The nameless herd who ob- fected to everything which struck their whim, the self-erected guardians of a great man’s morals, humor and family expression have collapsed unac- countably. But this is not sufficient for the HERALp. ‘The dying out of these short-lived wiseacres would only give a negative victory; hence the series of fac-similes in the HERALD of to-day. The enemy must not only be broken, but “be ours.” ‘The question of the explorer’s use of American- isms and Scotticiams has been pretty well venti- taved; but another piece of proof is furnished in the subjoined letier to his brother, Livingstone’s “Sereed” and “Skededdle.” STEBaMsuIP THULE, at Sea, Jannary 12, 1866, My Dear Brorugr—The last letter I got from you, with the enclosure of money, I for- warded at once to Janet, with a request that she would send a kind answer to you in return. I was unable to write myscif at the time, and, though I have three months at Bombay, I had the same excuse; and only now, when on my way to Zanzibar, have I leisure to give you a “screed,” and I fear it may be the last for a good while to come. ‘The vessel in which I sail ‘was one of Sherrard Os- borne’s late Chinese feet, and it is now going as & present from the Bombay government to the Sultan of Zanzibar. I am to have the honor of making the formal presentation, and I value it, because it will give me a little !Ift up in the eyes of the Sultan's people, and probably prevent them from giving any open opposition to my progress. She is very gorgeously got up, The fleet, by the ‘way (with this exception), still lies rotting at Bom- bay. Our government let themselves in for a very Jarge amount by placing an embargo on the sale of vessels which might possibly have gone to the Confederates as ‘‘Alabamas.” For this an offer of £9,000 was made; now it went for £3,000, and all the difference comes out of Mr. Bull's pocket. Here where they could not act fairly to the United States they did it even at a great sacrifice. ‘The Sultan of Zanzibar visited the Governor of Bombay while I was there. He was very gracious ‘and gave me a firman to ail his people and an order to one of his captains to carry some tame buffaloes across. These are to be used as an experiment ‘with the tsetze, and if they withstand the poison Of that pest we shall have done something to open Africa. At present they have no beast of burden 4m the country and this 1s so like the wild ones which live in the very habitat of the tsetze that I iave good hopes of success. My party consists of thirtcen Sepoys of the old East India Company's Marine Battalion. ‘They have been accustomed to rough it on board ship. (This one is kicking about just now in a way that might y rumph, 9) are Pau enough flows.” 1 fave tus “alee who were recaptured, and have been taught es and other & government school mear Bombay. They know a littie of their native tongues 51 These, with two mules and a little named constitute the party. I had many rs of service from Europeans, hut have invarta- Diy declined them, Unless & man has been tried he Livingstone’s Letter of Thanks to Mr. Bennett, November, 1871. an dt Qart Aya: 1857 Qeae Ser Nirin ae LO th wre Ta one we sf, ‘ 1 aes el dade aon aye, a2 Aura Denre ~ the New York Sun loses sight of facts which have a more important bearing upon the question than the mere resemblance in the writing of two dif- ferent persons. Why was the English expedition abandoned ? The reason for that was not given by Stanley, but A tyose composing it. They were in- formed by their ®vn agents that Livingstone had been found by an American, and, as the object of may become a nuisance and entail the burden on the leader of being “a servant of servants” to his brethren, I proposed to go due west from the with some of the survivors and escaped to Zanzi- bar. From the way the letter was worded the lieutenant seems to have “skedaddled,”’ but. this is cion owing to his bes a English. Nothing Is Known of the Baron and doctor, bat it looks ill at present, for the natives would scarcely allow him to pass in safety while going to attack the vessel. My love to Sarah and all the children, Agnes is but notwithstanding this fact the general character or manner in which the pen is propelled ever re- mains, This I presume to know, having been in a position for the last thirteen years where Iam afforded a rare opportunity of being able to discern in matters of this kind. The only place where the Doctor's letter ap- proaches Stanley's to “Noe” is in the last two lines, River Rovama or Livuma, then turn north after reaching the middle of the Continent. The objects are Partly, geographical and partly to open the country better influences than have prevailed for ages. I anticipate great good from the abolition of slave in the States. The Spaniards | in is t v their mission had been accomplished by another, and Portuguese are quakin in thelr and Oswell at schoot ance! Mary with Ger’ unts at they decided there was no necessity of proceeding Mr maaan) wou Li amoet orea miy have “avoided shoes, in expectation that the new-born | Hamilton. Affectionately yours further. Were the members of the English ex ede his ordinary style of writing. ‘Yours, B, zeal of the Americans will be hot. My book will DAVID LIVINGSTONE. tion frauds also? There is a genuine letter of Mr, ah Livingstone’s im Canada, a copy of which has already appeared in your columns. Why not endeavor to get the original and compare with yours’ But to the /fre-similes published in the Sun, That there is @ similarity between them is trae. What of it? Hundreds of persons write a not tend to allay the perturbation of the Portu- guese, It has been favorably reviewed in the Athenoum and Saturday Review, 801 can go away with @ light heart. Anasty spirit is abroad tn England which may, if unchecked, lead to a war of races. We were very The Baron and his doctor were killed by Somau- lies, who are bigoted Mohammedans. The servants who were Mohammedans were allowed to escape and came to Zanzibar, where I now am (29th Jan- uary.) The officer who escaped seems to have acted wisely aud no biame can be fairly attributed. An Irish Editor on the Letter “g” and English Enterprise. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I have carefully perused your leading article to-day anent this controversy. To every intelli- much bamboozled by the Southerners and our own . hand like that, whom no one suspects of writin, nt mind the arguments therein adduced are newspapers, “They were the true gentlemen”; —_— ee the Livingstone letter; and none would suspet Simply unanswerable, and pisos, this matter above the benevolent harpies who prevented the negro | Letters from the People on the Contro- | bim were he not the man who claims to have seeD | cavil unless for sake of cavil. In the article re- the great traveller. Yet, with all their similarity, there is a marked difference. For example :—tn “Dear Louis,’ first line, the e is written or @ capital ; also first E in “else,” tenth line; also ein “get,” eleventh race from utter annihilation ; and the contempt they labored to diffuse has received a great accession in strength by the late Jamaica outburst. That fellow Hobbs must have been ee full of that nasty ferred to it would appear to me, however, that suiicient stress has not been laid upon other dif- ferences in the cuikoerep of Stanley and Noe than that of the letter “b..? On closer inspection versy. During the progress of this controversy, letters by the bushel have been received, supporting the overcharged with a frenzied “funk. 1 | Only be given in a proportion of one in fifty. A | occurs twice in one line, “exiled” and “fmend,” | required yby Doctor Livingstone that letter ru don’t. Huppose we | have | another case current of denunciation has been indulged in by Vg tig Ag OF Writes ane pene two Chmeent Into * form Fenembling e 8d “8. a in history in which @ man was hung for giving a alm unive! ‘8 Scottis! ractice. Some’ fiendish look at the forey-seventh igen. F world | MABy which rans very wide of any reference to the was fixed in Mr. Stanley as early as 1868, | like it occurs In the MSS. of Hobert Burns an have given one at the first, I think it will be found | Matter under discussion. We publish a few of the | and he could not write fifteen lines without indulg: Professor Wilson, especially in the “Notes fos ot had ol di See ing in it several times, {8 it reasonal suppose 7 the elevation of #0 many freedmen to the Ameri: | nave Seditis that, in-a document of the length of Lavingstone’s | examining origival MESe st Buras Reposived in cans. ‘They go at these things with wonderful | TO7HE EDmOR op tHe Henarn letter, it would occur only once, and then when it | giass case in the interior of the monument erected ardor, The United states Christian Commission | of Hollywood fi Ri ty (Captain Senta ree! rag cridentyy intended, by, te, verter t2 ve & | Ko his memory at Ayr. Several specimens of the and Freedmen’s Bureau seem to be admirable in- | Ont h ‘East Coast. handwriting of Wilson may be seen stitutions, showing true Christian zeal and wisdom, | (ated 185%, occurs & entenive in Which these words FAIR PLAY, | Advocates’ iad appear, “his bulbous nether man.’ while, unfortunately, the countr; vingétone both being Scotchmen, the inference is lor: Edin en of Clarkso If I mistake noe W Scott's MSS. present the and Wilberforce aré becoming inbued with prea. wis @ lengthened residence How the Pen is Propelled. same pecullarity. Owin ; yet our wiseacres, who tnsist that “bulbous” dices and hatred, which found no place in their YH New Yore, August 20, 1872, in Scotland I got to adopt the same practi noble breasts. noe imericanism, and therefore that, your Uhit To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD? you may observe by this fetter, It 1s quite possible, A mm Van der Decken went up the River Juba, less claim Moat the terrific ‘Stanley was in this Hearing so much about the Sealer évinasrone Of course, that the same are 14 obtain else- which is just on the Kquator, a few months ago, in | rivingstone business thirteen years ago, writing | andwriting, and being ® dally manipulator of | where, but I cannot be far astray in, maintaining two steamers, built at his own expense. en Lace arden. W, ALL BEREGE manuscript, I took up the HERALD t) ning | that the practice is entirely Scottish. about three hundred miles from the sea he knocked y wwe and compared every letter for over an hour and a | this as it may, the distinction here ited out in two holes in the bottom of one—the other ohn Li 4 half, have come to the conclusion that any | reference to the Jao-similes of and Noe is he re lost. Then went ashore | Chirography—John Livingstone — The rson who says that the letters (as they a) in | of some importance, with his doctor. The vessel was forthwith at- English Expedition. his mor '§ HERALD) have been written by the The formation of the letter “g” in the word tacked by a large ral BROOKLYN, August 28, 1872 same hand pe {utes of manuscript. It is most | “getting” is the only faint proximation of the Baron's pe 4n | To rae Eprror or THE HERALD:— certainly possible that a man’s style of writing may | in letter to Noe alike to that of Livi ORNs ths he me navy, left at night in a boat ° ” Jn ity desperate offerte to prove Stanley a ( “\ vudergos remarkable change in four ar Ave years, plone, But a blurs of RrAmter’a lnk oF a toyeh of Cf : : | 5 | § i i : i i i T have many interesting and instructive facts te inust refrain ior tke present, Wespecknuliy ni PETER MoCORRY, Editor Jrish ‘People. ‘The Moral of the Doubting Themases Naw Yorx, August 29, 1872.” TY connection with your “Livingstone Search Bx conn 2 7 da in the Stun, ‘Lis read an article Hi i : itis i it f 3 Le wroi bi yy to him, and that Stanley wrote i it is certainly an of audacity, and of the article whieh Yam considering Stanley himself, Se more herculean feat than the man whom : aaa knave and impostor, Two alike; and I am not unwilling to del Sun clevet tion of the th Smiles. thai ise red 01 ol ie but I ohn! ge Bes = s your issue a few days show the faintest similarity of style between the letters which it nanos side by side with each other in the endeavor to prove the identity of their au- thorship. I have some pretensions to skill in te matter of discerning distinctions of caligraphy. EK have pe ineae of my own handwriting over fitteen years ago. I do not oe thie test. Ihave the autographs of ni men {from the time they were almost boys unt fell into the “sere and yellow leaf,” and I uahesttee, ingly challenge the Sun writer to point out in all the manuscripts which I am willing to place at the disposal of the public a thousandth rt of the difference that ia ti rent tween the letters which Mr. Stanley wrote re the name of Dr. Livingstone and those which wrote when his dear Noe was so much in his cone ir fidence. This is the principal supportof the Sus writer; but he is fertile in resources, and. has the wisdom not to depend altogether upon the of . There B anothe! tion which he first assumed. yt circumstance to dal timacy, and of course it is Seay cnougt for the Sus to take it for granted that Mr. Noe is right and that Stanley is a rogue. Rut what ts the upshot of all this controv« nist We are apt to disbelieve in daring deeds in age, or, if constrained to give them credence, to ascribe them to other than creditable motives. in the HERALD cantor fail to be the gainer. happen that it has been im} wil posed upon by the mam h whom it identifies its Pie mr why it ie evil has had his not the first time that the owa way; but, successful or being deceived, it inn render the name of the NEw YoRE HERALD verb of enterprise whe! haps, the “Man- Fema’? will anticipate tite "iNew Zealander” and take his stand upon an arch of the East River Bridge to contemplate, not the ruins, but the in- creased demensions of the HxBALD Building. Your obedient servant, M. CREAGH. The Dot of the “i” and the Cross of the “t.” 172 FIFTH AVENUE, } 1 Ei aneatD ri ey ‘0 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— 2 In glancing at the suc-stmile letters of Dr. Li stone and Mr. Stanley, published in this Heratp, I never thought of their resemblance until my attention was attracted by your editorial, I will merely say that if some “en! Ing con temporary” has detected a similarity from tne tout ensemble of the manascripts, it not re- quire an expert to go beyond the dotting of the ’s or crossing of the t’s to refute 80 lous an idea eles Mr. panty Kal) Dr. Livingstone’s letters and despatches, Yours respectfull i OLIVER 8, GOLDBiaTH. Dr. Livingstone and the Slave Trade of Eastern Africa. at [From the New York Evening Post, Sept. 6.) \ If there were the slightest doubt of the authenti> clty of the despatches brought by Mr. Stanley from Dr. Livingstone there is one fact that would en- tirely dispel it. Were we to give to the young trav. eller the credit of the most remarkable ingenuity on record as a story-teller and a forger—a combi- nation of Sir John Mandeville and Chatterton—we should atill question the possibility of his simulat- ing the zeal which fills Dr. Livingstone in regard to the slave trade of Eastern Africa, or of his possess" ing the knowlege of the influence that trade has haa upon the natives of the country. The deep feeling which fills Dr, Livingstone is peculfarly his own, for nobody else has ever fathomed the charac- ter of that traffic, aa nobody nas come so near as he to the sources of the Nile. We, in our generation, know only from history how deep the ubhorrence was with which the Eng- lish people were taught by Wilberforce and Newtom and Sharpe and others to look upon the slave trade of the West Coust of Africa, Yet their knowledge of it was limited almost to the Tr yr 4 and its horrors, or, if it went beyond that, to infuence of the traMc upon the negroes of the coast. They knew that the savage A gett tae a traders excited tribes to war upon each other th they might sell their captives for slaves; but they did’ not know, a Livingstone shows, that the slave trade has more than tem porary atrocities .to an- Swer for; nor did they know that prot the whole stracture society and the charac ter of the people of Interior on the side of Cont he were changing in the eastern , interior as the" trade works its way ward, Intense as his desire isto find the fountains of the Niie, Dr. Fab magia zeal for the suppression of the slave trade is hardly less, The sanguinary ave grown UW -defence, under the insteiel ‘ion of the Mohammedan slave- traders, and that they have taken the place of @ condition of things of quite another character. The further he has penetrated into the intertor the fur- ther behind him does he leave these kingdoms, like Abyssinia and Ashantee, and in their place he finds asimple and pastoral people, divided into smalg tribes under almost patriarchal rule, little disposed to quarrel or to the shedding of blood, and at eace with each other. It is the slave-traders hat bring discord among these qniet and& innocent and happy savages, break up their tribes, and, according to Dr. Living- stone, compel them for some sort of self-defence to reorganize society by combining and submitting to & centralizing rule. In the lapse of time changes have thus been brought about in national and individual character, and, as an English journat says, “Dr. Livingstone would seem nearly to have ersuaded himself that the flat-nosed. and pr nous negro, Who is almost exclusively known to Europeans, is a degeneration from a higher pI cal type whic! been produced by the slave trade.” Even such @ conclusion will not, per! seem strange to those who were familiar with: slavery ¢ West Indies before the slave trade was prohibited, where it was remarked that amo fresh importations individuals were often f who were said to come from the interior of Africa, and whose noses were not broad and flat nor their thick nor their jaws Froecting. ‘o make an end of a trafic, horrible in itself, an@ having such disastrous results upon the character and happiness of the people of a whole continent is the desire that lies next the heart of the g traveller. The chief seat of this trade is at Zanzi- bar, ana it is cherished by the Sultan because of a [ee As nd export duty on each slave and for other le that it brings to that port. There are treaty stipulations that Feerpne the immediate interfer- ence of the Brit government; but as the subject has been brought ap in Partament and was alluded Hons provabiy wil not be permitted 10" steud Ui to the way, vi . :.