New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-03
A MERITOBuOUs MILEsuAN.

Al the Irish emigration to this country is said to
be setting in sgain-probably owing to the demand
for free and enlightened Democratic voters next
Autumn-it s gratifying to know that there is
reason to hope that it will still be of the right
stamp When Daniel O'Connel was alive, he was
in the habit Of making very unpleasant observations
touching our Peculiar Domestic Institution, to
such degree, indeed, that his Excelency Andrew
Stevenson, at that time Minister at st. J.mes's,
felt himself called upon to throw down his gauntlet
to the Irish Giant as the champion of the insulted
msiesty of Slavery. This gage the Liberator de-
clined lifting, though he continued lifting up his
voice none the less resonantly against the favorte
pursuits Of our Southern brethren, to whom he
even refused to speak or give his hand. His dc.
nupciations of American Slavery were received by
his Monster Meetings with shouts that tore the
concave, and the multtudinous Ayes sounded like
the voice Of many waters when he asked them TO
pledge themselves, should they ever emigrate to
America, 10 eternal hatred Of il. There is some
where mountainous address, signed by O'COnnell,
Father Mathew, and many thousand more, directed
to their countIymen in this country, full OF eloquent
e1hortatiops TO the same effect.
What effect the American air would have had on
tho Liberators constitution We can not say, as he
never tried il. But We know that almost al his
courtrymen who have changed their sky have
changed their minds with it, and broke down
under the malarous influences Of our Slavery
tainted atmosphere. Father Mathew fell away
from grace; Smith O'Bnen did the same if he
had any TO fall from; John Mitchell and Measher
Of the Sword, and the rest Of the patriots who
could rot endure the yoke Of the Saxon at home
see it imposed on their cury-headed neighbOrs here
with entire complacency, and even with avowed
envy. And we do not spprchend danger to our
Institutions from any fresh importstions from the
Emerald Isle. There ia no O'Connell left to infect
the sweetness Of Democratic Alliance with the jeal-
ousies of freedom. At least, if we can draw any
general inference from an O'Conor, who does sur
vive, and has just been elected to Parliament for tho
County of Rorcommon. This gentleman We take
to be the chief Of the O'Conor family, Of which We
have distinguished scion in this city, whose
avowed sentiments on the matter Of Slavery are
such US must commend him to the appreciation Of
the head Of his house. Only, we should opine that
the American climate has worked an improvement
in the quality Of the ofshoot when compared with
the original stock. Indeed, We cannot say that we
think the American O'Conor has much reason to be
proud Of bis IRISH knsman.
|, Some tine last month, Capt. Golf having been
ekctcSa for bribery, the free and Independent
choose n an .ascemmon County were summoned to
Denis O'Copor, a gerTTlhe only candidate was Mr..
hereditary popular appellatoEh !. said to bear the
The origin Of this title ia not che!0 Conor Don.
believe, but it is supposed to be appurtenaEar We
pure Milesan descent and proof of his Spanish,
ancestry. There was no opposition, SO that The
Don walked over the course unmoested. Being
returned, be made speech which, if not at all
points like those Of OConnell, was received with
equal enthusiasm. Of course, as The Don is a
Catholic, he could not avoid abiding TO the perilous
predicament of the Pope, if he had desired to do
ready to define his position TO him-wards in the
moot unmistakable manner. He began by saying
that his Address to the Electors in which, accord
ing to excellent British usage, he had proposed him.
self as a candidate, had been criticised for the
sympathy it expressed for the Holy Father.
Hi' ~0Puituio NUN Polit pro-
ceeded to say that he thought the Pope should be
left in unmoested possession of his dominons free
from all foreign interference, and that he would 20
80 far as to say that "he should be left perfectly at
liberty to ralop his o,en niggers I" This phlau-
thropc state of mind he INDUCED in from his sim.
"plcis reliance upon the benevolence and kindness
"of one Of the most paterna rulers in Europer'
But, even if he did not entertain this confidence in
the fathery kindness Of his Holiness, he should still
adhere to the opinion because, in TRUTH he believed
"a linle ,eaAoping eould do The said niggers no
"gre0t harm ?" These humane and statesmanlike
opinions touching their fellow Catholics suffering
under tyranny to which that of Lord Glare and Ma.
jor SIR was Light and mercifa were received by his
hearers with cheers and laughter. We apprehend,
therefore, that here much raw material ready for
expectation, and ft to be worked up into National
Democratic voters Of the best quality. And The |
OConor Don himself would be bright and shining
addition to that constellation of his countrymen who
have shown themselves capable of receiving and
carrying forward the great American Idea embodied
in that party. Still, We could not conscisutou,ly