It taxes all trading companies and exempts its own goods from export-duty, and makes many of its officers ivory-traders, with the promise of a liberal commission upon all they can buy or get for the State. Read Open letter to King Leopold on Congo by George Washington Williams with a free trial. Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. SIXTH.Women are imported into your Majestys Government for immoral purposes. During thirteen years only one white man has lost his life by the hands of the natives, and only two white men have been killed in the Congo. Read More (1890) George Washington Williams's Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo. The letter also pointed out that the government has done They are ignorant and cruel, because they do not comprehend the natives; they are imposed upon them by the State. All the crimes perpetrated in the Congo have been done in your name, and you must answer at the bar of Public Sentiment for the misgovernment of a people, whose lives and fortunes were entrusted to you by the august Conference of Berlin, 18841 885. When Leopold was 65, he took the 16-year-old prostitute Caroline Lacroix as his mistress. In 1935, while working in the Congo, Muikwani Bukoko bought a second-hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the speech in the Bible. The third act was the gun trick. In the Lower Congo River there is but One post, in the cataract region one. Other officers have served the State faithfully, and deserve well of their Royal Master. Mr. H. M. STANLEY, the man who was your chief agent in setting up your authority in this country, has grossly misrepresented the character of the country. Shocked by the widespread brutal abuses and slavery imposed on the Congolese, he wrote an open letter to Leopold in 1890 about the suffering of the region's native inhabitants at the hands of the king's agents. career. The cruel and unjust treatment to which these people are subjected breaks the spirits of many of them, makes them distrust and despise your Majestys Government. There is not a single chaplain in the employ of your Majestys Government to console the sick or bury the dead. Would you buy the story of finding the kings letter in a bible ? Your Majestys Government gives 3 per head for able bodied slaves for military service. These piratical, buccaneering posts compel the natives to furnish them with fish, goats, fowls, and vegetables at the mouths of their muskets; and whenever the natives refuse to feed these vampires, they report to the main station and white officers come with an expeditionary force and burn away the homes of the natives. Next came the lens act. After having been impressed by meeting King Leopold II of Belgium, he traveled in 1890 to the Congo Free State ( then owned by the king) to see its development.