New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-22
Mr.. ocoSOR ON SLAVERY.

Mr. Charles Conor says in his speech at the Union
Meeting see The Herald report, that degraded
are tbose ho have voted for Republican eandidst e.
lam coe-of those "dsgraded" persons. He dweh IN
stale senerates, which TO refute one by one would be
loot and tedious labor To all this however, answer
by another generality that be showed thorough ignor-
sIoe the 'bistory Of mankind" Absence OF SOUND
"oreyen unsouDd philosophy" ignorance OF the laws
os nature or Of society wei az Ignorance Of all an
Gent or recent general and special history.
Mr.. O'Conor says:
IBoId that negro deercd BY nature to ate Of pupil
sps under dominion Of the white man IN every cns'o "nefe
dod and nature taid the negro should live at all"
God and nature seem to have principally decreed the
negro 10 i've in s parts Of the Continent Of Africa, al
hsueb be once lived over great part Of Asia, and per-
hans Of Europe II the tutorshp over the negro be
decree Of nature it ought to be exercised principally in
TIE peuo's home, and not where the negro is arti-
seally transpsnted To be his assertions,
Nj, OConor ought to 90 10 Africa TO the negros ma
turAl home, and there become the providenal tutor
This must be taken az a sample from the heap OF hs
afReItions, untrue in fact and in logic.
Swteping assertions against whole race, white or
solored based on a few uncOnstructed perverted, or
accidental or temporary facts are dangerous and un-
worthy Of any elevated mind.
The brilliant Macaulay, in his history Of England,
rays that in the year 1859 the Protesants in Ireland
iad "tbat menial who bad cleaned the plate and
"rubbed down the horse Of an Engish gentleman
might pass for civilized being when compared
with many Of the native arstocracy." On another
pase, giving description of the southwestern part of
Kerry, Macaulay says: "Where some half-naked
savages, who could not speak word Of English,
made themielves burrows ia the mud, and lived on
roots and sour milk" At that epoch the Protestants
and Che Enehsh considered the Irsh arisocracy and
all, doomed TO degradation and to pupIage with as
much right a. Mr.. OCOnor now condemns the Africans
er negroes to the same fate.
The quotation of the Roman jurisprudent, taken by
Mr.. Conor from the fret page of the Corpus lures
CiOiis, about the SUM euiqae contracted in the
sopmentr made upon it. thorough study of the
Roman Law, Of its history it's principles, of the high
and human tone prevailing in the writings of Roman
juIspIudtnts and thorough study and appreciation Of
Roman political and civil history, would Isuppose have
recti6ed Mr. 0'Conors notions concerning the social
working Of Slavery the shareholders. Not far from
abe page Of the Corpus Jures where Mr.. OConOr
took his quotations, be find another passage where
abe Roman urist and not philosopher he says speaks
Of Slavery as a State " contra Haturam."
But Mr.. 0'Conor is not the first who has squared
hmsef against the highest nobest dogmas and asPra-
tiops of mankind BY studying the verdcts of history,
he would have fonnd how the names Of his prede-
cessors are recorded.
Mr.. OConor's speech proves that one can be a good
lawyer under the common law, and even a ready
rhetorcian, while being thoroughly ignorant of the
law Of nature and Of history, he remains thereby de-
GRADED mind. GuRowsKI.
Ise- York, Dec. 20, lsSe