The True Story Of The French Dispute In Madagascar PDF Download

Excerpt from The True Story of the French Dispute in Madagascar: With a Map The unhappy differences between France and Madagascar naturally excite the anxiety and regret of all who, like ourselves, have watched with sympathy the steady progress of the Malagasy in the arts of civilization and in the knowledge and practice of Christianity. It is a great misfortune that the passions and calamities of war should have interposed to arrest the advance of a people who seemed destined soon to enter the comity of nations, and to play a useful part in the regeneration of Africa. This view is deepened by the conviction that the proceedings of the French Government in Madagascar largely due to a total misconception of the acts of England and of Englishmen in the island. The people of this country have no desire to secure any exclusive or privileges in Madagascar. Their earnest wish is that the Malagasy shall fulfil every Treaty obligation into which they have entered, but that, at the same time, they shall be at liberty to work out their destiny without any other foreign interference than that involved in the peaceful establishment among them of well-ordered religious, educational, and commercial instrumentalities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.