New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-17


does very well. But the moment he resorts 10
bricks Of MS Cwn making and timber oil Ms own
cutting. his edifce gets fearflly totterlng anu
threatens every rDoment 70 fall on his own head.
4, Least bali the field bands on his own psntation
(abo-e ten years Of age would we VIII venture 10
say-speabing from some acquaintance with plant
alton neqroes-te fully competent t. detect his
ridiculous non -sequiturs
Without going into details or stopping 10 Polhl
out the ludicrous blun1ers into which our author
falls, as 70 the condition Of The negroes IN Africa
blunders originating iI would seem, IN t)tal is-
uorance Of all the discoveries made Ia central Air1-
ca from Mungo Parks explorations down to those
of DR.. Iiyiurstone-his whole elaborate argument
may be blown away az single breath. IL proves
altogether too much. This alleged superiority OF
races Is not confined 10 the OF whites and ne
groes The whites of Europe and America pos
sess al actual superiority oser The American ln-
dians, over the HindoOs, the Mala!s, the Tar
iars. ard the Tartlr-Chnese, as We'll as over
the negroes IL this actual superiority which, as
in the case of the negroes, has existed from time
immemoriai, is 70 prove natural superiority over
the negroes, i proves just as well natural super'-
ority over Indians, Hindoos, Maays, Tartars and
Chinese in fact over all the mont Caucasian races OF
the globe. l. IL then the right and duty of the
whites to subject to Slavery and 10 take under
their discipline aud control all these races, forming
the immense majority of the inhabitants OF the
globe Nor does the scope of Mr.. Cobb's argu-
ment stop here. Some white races possess an OBJ
yious actual superiority other white races, and
have done so from time mmemorial. The actual
superiority Of the English the native Irish
race is as marked and s as much hossted of by the
Euglish as is that Of the whites of the South over
their negroes. Were the English then justified
by natural law in the attempt which they made
through slx centuries, and in which to a great e1-
tent they succeeded to reduce the native Irish to the
condition OF slaves And, in having recently aban-
doned that attempt and recognized the Irish as
their social and legal equals, have they failed
in their duty to Themselves and to the Irish !
The greater part of the Irish who arrive IN this
country quite low in point oi intelligence. Ia
the opinion of mauy who have had ample opportu-
mites of comparison, they are decidedly Inferior to
our negroes. Does natural law Impose upon us the
obligation TO reduce these Irish immigrants to Slave
ryl Nor can Mr. Cobb stop here. He is much in
the position of the fellow who, having overheard,
learned and repeated the magical words by which
walbiDg.stck was converted into a water. carrier,
found too late, to his utter dis nay when his house
began to be flooded, that lie did not know how TO
re.convert the water.carrier into walking-stick.
taI Il loo
hobby Mr.. Cobb must jump ditch or two yet
lucky fellow it. in doing so, he is not thrown and
sunk to the neck, if not actually smothered in the
mud. Superiority, whether natural or inherent, is
not confined TO races; it extends in a still more
marked degree TO classes families and individuals
The shareholders of the South, taken as body,
possess II vast superiority over the "poor whites"
the very fact Of whose not owning slaves may be
taken, according TO Mr.. Cobbs logic, as proof,
along with their poverty and ignorance. Of their
idleness, shiftlessness and natural ncapacity. The
free mt groes Of Hayt, however Mr.. Cobb may at
tempt to decry them, are decidedly better off and
more industrious than very large proportion of
these same poor whites. Small as their number
comparatively is, the free negroes of Hayti pro
is produced by the poor whites of South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi taken
together. Does natural law give to the superior
class, in these and other Slave States the right,
and impose upon il the duty of reducing these poor
whites TO Slavery
Among other proofs Of the rightfulness of max
ing slaves Of the negroes, Mr.. Cobb dwells exult-
antly the fact that they have produced poets,
no inventors, no logicans (like Mr. Cobb, no
thors, Lo warriors, no men of distinguished emf
hence. And pray, Of the grealbody of white men in
the four or five centuries past, how many have done
any thing to get their names into 8 Biographical
Dictionary Of the two hundred and fifty mill
ions, more or less, of white men alive at this mo-
ment, how many viii be entitled to find place in
any such dictionary If failing to get into Bio
graphical Dictionary is to settle the question, the
great mass of white men would seem 10 be quite
as fit for slavery as the negroes
Leaving Mr.. Cobb 10 reflect upon these matters,
and TO disnount as he best may from the uuman.
ageable steed upon which in all unlucky moment
he has mounted himself at the fearful risk of con-
cussiOu Of the brain. if not Of breaking his neck
we proceed now TO bis second chapter in which he
undertakes to justify negro Slavery out of the BIZ
ble. AS to this, We have simply to say that he
here again falls into precisely the logical error
of proving too much. If the Bible justiies Slave
~, it justfes the enslaying Of white men as well
as the enslsvng of black men. In fact, it JUS
tifes white Slavery, TO which alone il refers, 10
the exclusion Of negro Slavery, about which it says
nothing.
In histhird chspter, 'On the Origin and Source
of Slavery" Mr.. Cobb again falls, as he so cou-
stantly does, into notable inconsistencies. The