Mr. Stanley is very angry because some incredulous people decline
to believe in the literal accuracy of his stories about Dr. Livingstone. He has some right to be angry, for he has done a great deed, and all his more important statements have been corroborated by Dr. Livingstone'e letters and other evidence, but he should remember that it is very difficult to apprehend all at once a change so considerable as appears to have passed over the great traveller. For example, Mr. Stanley writes to the Herald—we quote the paragraph from the New York Nation—that when he told Dr. Livingatone of Mr. Greeley's candidature for the Presidency the Doctor said :—" Hold on! You have told me stupendous things, and with a confiding simplicity I was swallowing them peacefully down ; but there is a limit to all things. I am a simple, guileless, Christian man, and unacquainted with intemperate language ; but when you tell me that Horace Greeley is become a Democratic candidate, I cast the traditions of my education to the winds, and say, I'll be — to all eternity if I believe it. [After a pause.] My trunk is packed to go home, but I shall remain in Africa,— for these things may be true, after all ; if they are. I desire to stay here and unlearn my civilisation." The Dr. Livingstone of 1836 would not, we think, have uttered those sentences, and it is by their recollections of the Doctor as he was that the sceptics —very unfairly—judge Mr: Stanley's accounts of him as he is.
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