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...the Congo State can be considered to have fulfilled the special pledges, given under the Berlin Act, to watch over the preservation of the native tribes, and to care for their moral and material advancement. || The graver charges against the State relate almost exclusively...

...which exercises sovereign rights in this area from granting any monopoly or favor in trade.] " VI. All the Powers exercising sovereign rights or influence...for the improvement of the conditions of their moral aud material well-being, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially the slave-trade. They shall,...

...for the ' especial protection ' of the religious teacher. The paragraph is worth reproducing :" — "All the Powers exercising sovereign rights or influence...native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the condition of their moral and material wellbeing, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially...

...provided that "AH the Powers exercising Sovereign rights or influence in the aforesaid tcrri tones bind themselves to watch over the preservation of...native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the condition* of their moral and material well being, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially...

...declaration is of peculiar significance, and is as follows : 5<5" Emigrants for Liberia. [April. " All the Powers, exercising sovereign rights or influence...the improvement of the conditions of their moral and mental well-being, and to help in suppressing slavery and especially the slave trade. They shall, without...

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...years. They seem not to have weighed as carefully the obligations into which their government entered, " to watch over the preservation of the native tribes...and material wellbeing and to help in suppressing shivery, and especially the slave trade." And apart from any technical constructions, or questions...

...Powers there recited bound themselves to watch over the preservation of native tribes, and to core for the improvement of the conditions of their moral and material •well-being. In view, therefore, of this declaration, and the awful condition of things in West Africa to-day, wo...

...the native races." That principle was embodied in Article VI. of the Convention, and the Powers bound themselves to — " watch over the preservation of...native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the condition of their moral and material wellbeing, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially...