New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-01
sIR. O,COnoR ONCE MORE.

II we make too much of Mr.. Charles OCOn0r,
and give pain to the modesy of his character by 80
frequently introducing him to our admlfing readers,
our extenuatlon must be that Dlr. Charles OCon0r
is quite too original man to be lightly considered
or briefly entertained If some bright morning
mepatherium should come crawling down Broad
way, devouripg at every corner respectable cln-
zen, demolishing at every step shop-Wlndo", ana
drowning all the accustomed noise OF the thorough
fare by his beowiDgs we could not undertake to
disnose of the m inster in these columns within the
proyerbal period of nine days. Mr. Charles
o,Cono- 10 a .nv,ai megatnerum. He is the DOd0
of the ProSayery menagere. 10 change the
figure, he is the African Knife-Swallo yer OF this
exciting drama Ant-Savey arguments may be
long or short, sharp or dull, but Mr.. Charles
O'COnor takes them between his teeth without hes
itatiou, swallows them without a cough, and dgestS
hem without pang. He breakfasts upon modern
phIanthropists and he lunches upon ancient law
yers. lie makes but mOuthful of Lord Mansfield
and mastcates Blackstone in q bite. Never was
there such an insatiate glutton of precedents
There is no such thing as Law OF Nature There
is no such right Judicial right to declare any
hing contrary to the Law of Nature Mr.
OConOr is wiser than all the civilians together, and
pronouIces their conclusions to be idle and inflated
speech. Clearly, Dir. OConor is remarkable
man. nor do We see how he can be kept out of the
Pantheon of reformers should the world happen to
be of his mind. Future ages will either worship
or laugh at him. The present should certainly
treat HIM with that reverence which is due alike
to great merit and great misfortune for he is
either a wonder or willing.
Dir. O'Conor's pet proposition may be given as
follows in his own language, used before the Court
of Appeals: Negroes, alone and unalded by the
I" guardianship of another race, cannot sustain
q" civilized social state" This our clever lawyer
states as an axiom, and upon this depend all his de-
ductons. A convenient proposition We do
not, in all the history of controversy, remember
TO have noticed, although the Puritan " ReSOired
That We are the saints" was akin to it. Unfor-
tunatey 1t is also proposition in which every race
has common property, when the terms of it
suitably varied 1t lis just as easy for black man
10 despse Mr.. O'COnOr, as it is for Mr. O'Conor to
despse black man, and the contempt of the one is
worth as much as the contempt of the other. There
is no limit, and there has been any to these
prejudces Of race against race. COnqaerOrs some
times respect the conquered, when resistance has
been valiant and victory difficult; but the second
generation of lords always desplses the second gen.
Grafton Of serfs. Hence, Mr.. OConor's ancestors,
although thoroughly enslayed were more highly
respected during the reign Of Elizabeth than his
Irish cousins are in the reign of Victoria. Eliza
beth held Ireland By the right of conquest; the pres
ent Sovereign Of England by virtue of Mr. O'ConOr's
axiom, slightly altered TO suit the circumstances.
The proposition of the English Tories is and always
has been this: "Irishmen alone and unalded by the
guardianship Of another race, cannot sust6n
" civilized social state" Voltaire long ago
said, in his Age of Louis XIV, Some nations
seem made to be subject to others. The English
" have ever had over Irishmen the superiority of
"mind riches, and arms. La Snp6riorit{ que les
"bianeS ont sur les NOTES.-The superiority which the
whites have over the blacks" How our accom-
pshed advocate will relish this grouping of IRISH
men and negroes we do not know; but certainly
VOltaire had as good right as Mr.. OConOr has to
indulge in eccentrictes of assertion. INCIDENT peo
pie Will be very much obliged to this philosophical
advocate for a formula which will supersede Discus
sion. Given enslavement, the right to ensave is to
be considered beyond dispute. If some superior
creature should, tomorrow, enter the office of Mr.
OConor, should put gag in his mouth, and shackles
upon his limbs, and should carry him, no matter
where to do no matter what, unless he had the sd
gacty to escape, neither he nor his family and
friends would have the smallest right to complain
because bis fate would demonstrate fully that he de-