New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-01

served no better one. his only solace would be 10 DIS
personal philesopby aud really We should like to see
how well that would sustain HIM. Will some philan-
tbropic PhilIstine run away with Mr.. O'COnor and
give him an opportunity of testing, in some rice
swamp or cotton field, the value Of his own DIS
coyeres2 As be plies the hoe We hear him say
ing TO himself "Slayery is not contrary TO the law
"of Nature" AS he digs Justify, we imagine him
sooquzug: "O'COnor, my boy, in order 10 obtain
"the Measure of reasonable personal enjoyment
"and Of usefulness to yourself and Others, for
(Which you Gre adapted by nature, you must re-
"main in state of pupage under the government
"of the gentleman who has been kind enough to
"kidnap you" Perhaps Mr. O'Conor might find
these reflections quite refreshing. On the other
hard bis respect for Lord Mansfield, for Mr.. Chief
JUST &c Marshall, and I" the Law Of Nature" might
be materially elevated.
But important as we consider Mr.. OCoDors dis
coyeres 10 be- il must be confessed that great prac
tcal difficulties beset their development A social
condition is preoicated upon color Very well.
What color? What is TO be done with yellow men!
Where does the faint Of the African blood dlsap-
pear? And is the son Of q white master and
black slave woman half fit for freedom and half for
slavery? These are questions which it becomes
Mr.. O'Conor seriously to consider. He Is very Sc
we're upon "evasion and circnmventlon," and ne
should be willing courageOusly to follow BIS argu-
ment wherever 1t may lead him. When TINS DlacA
maj has become white man; when by successive
bleacbpgs the African tint has disappeared, and the
Clrcasslan establishes Itself and yet no emanciPa-
ton has followed, will Mr.. O'COnOr admit that
there may be such thing as q natural rgot Alas
if be should, 10 what fearful peris should we be
exposed 1t would not at all appeasc the wrath OF
the sayebOldeg to be told that he must let his light
coored chattes 90 10 enforce his claim against the
darker ones. Mr.. O'COnOr would be looked upon,
in South Carolina or Virginia, as a very suspicious
sort of philosopher.
TIE fIightful consequences Of siding with Lord
Mansfield and opposing Mr. O'Conor, as we learn
from bis speech ID the Lennon case, Will be 1.-THE
dissolution of the Union An event of which our
readers may have heard sundry serious prophecies
Unless the black man is kept ID his present condl-
ton OF subsection be will "apply the torch and
" explode our Republic forever" We are aston
ished to find man of MIR. O'COnOrs line and
equitable mind condescending to brighten rather
than convince his hearers. Why does ne not rely
upon his fataIsm a little more confidently? Ii the
black man must be slave in the nature OF things,
a whole regiment of Abolition lecturers cannot
alter the fact, aud NOBODY will be able "to explode"
the Republic If Mr. O'COnOr had the slightest
confidence in his own theory, he would be calm,
corfdiDg, and fearless He would no more dread
revolution than the disappearance of the sun at
noon. day. Weak men may tremble; Mr.. OConor
should be in the highest possible spirits.