New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-14

Archbishop HUGHES related the following anec-
dote of bis frat conference with the Irish LiberatOr
in his late Lecture on 1.-THE Life and Times Of
Daniel O'Connell"
"The flint time met him was in London. aud was
introduced with determination to have a struggle
with him on a certain question-that the
asperity thought, with which be spoke OF certain
social institutions in this country; and told him. after
the ordinary introduction You not surprised, MIR.
OConnell, that while you have many friends in
America, you have some who are much di'pleased
with certain of your public remarks. And he asked,
WHAT 'WeI,' l replied, they think you are too
severe upon the institution for which the present gen.
Grafton or the present Government OF America, Is by
no means respOnsble-I mean Slavery He paused
and said, 1t would be strange, indeed, should not
be the friend of the slave throughout the world,
who was born slave myself. lie suenced me-
although be old not convince me-.
When man tells story wholly against him
SELF the presumption is very strong that he tells 1t
correctly We feel sure, therefore, that the Arch.
bishop hs, not misrecollected the encounter in
which he admits that he was silenced BY his great
fellow-cOuntyman.
The Archbishop volunteered the information to
the orator that "the present generation, or the
present government of America, is by no means
responsible for American Slavery. II he meant
that they were not responsible for it's origin, the
remark was truism; but il he intended to be un.
derstood as denying the responsibility of our pres
tnt shareholders and the governments they control
for the continuance Of slaveholding through our
own time and beyond it, then we submit that the
priest sought to misesd the politician Who IS re-
spopsible for the continuance of Slavery if not they
who continue IL
But mark the nObleness of the Lberators Isl.
lencine" retOrt: at would be strange, indeed, if
81 should not be the friend of the slave throughout
"the world-I, who was born a slave myself"
True words, manfully spoken, Dan. O'Connell
They honor you more than any star or garter that
Queen Victoria could have given you, with the
superadded title of Lord O'COnnell or Duke of
Derrynane But what quiet, cutting rebuke for
the Archbishop He, too, was "born slave"
and only escaped from Slavery as fdgiti9e-nOt
by couraseoust, patiently, toilsomely fighting his
way out of n, like the other. The politician felt
and acted like the Good Samaritan who found the
"certain man" who went down to Jericho and
"fell among thieves, stripped, wounded, and half
dead by the wayside, and proved true neighbor
to him, while Priest and Leyte passed By on the
other side" They did not, however, resolve to
"have struggle with the Samaritan, nor tell
him they were "much displeased" with his con.
duct-they had the grace to keep silent and go on
their timid shutting selfish way as quietly as pos
sible. Alas tina. nineteen centuries should have
made no improvement in the class, but the re-
vene!
How many of the Irish in America can read
O'Cnnnells emitting rabuke of the A rchbi shOD and
truly say This does not touch me