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exploration has done* would be endangered. We cannot
adequately express our admiration for all that the King
has attempted for the development of Africa. " Even
the Aborigines Protection Society believed in the
philanthropic pretension of the Congo Free State, and the
cuaker 111P. J. W. Pence moved a resolution at one of their
meetings, - ".. it justifies the hope that in time to come
many other uncivilized countries with their inhabitants, may
be placed under similar guardianship and redeemed from
barbarian by equally peaceful and Christian meaner'
Suggestion that the British Government should declare
a protectorate was carefully avoided, - all that was wanted
was a continuation of the old informal oyetem of free
trade on tht Congo, which for some time had worked in the
favour of British merchants. Hufton in fact asserted ""Africa
for the Africans"... It ins we maintain, and injustice to
the Africans to attempt to deprive them of their rights and
to allow any country to take from them their country. " (3)
(1) Deports of Birmingham Ladies Tte oo firiindes & ocie ty ý 1884.
(2) Transaction of the A, P, &" 1885.
(3) The Congo Treaty, Deport of a meeting in I4ancheator
CIi& bor of Conrierco, opcit, p. '16.
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