New-York tribune., 1867-07-24
MORE ETHNOLOGY.

A COMMITTEE on the part OF Cne otate
"Rights Society," consisting of Mr.. K. q.
Horton, editor of The Ee,O- York Day Book,
Mr.. John Mulally, editor of The Metropolitan
Record and Mr. M. II. DuckwQrth, OF whom
we are ashamed to say we never heard before,
have presented q memorial to the constitutional
Convention against negro suffrage. Candor
compels us to state that the arguments set
forth in the memorial are not of that sound
and convincing character which we might
have expected from its distinguished signers.
They may be reduced to these: 1. Thomas
Jefferson says that "all men are created free
"and equal;r y therefore he meant to say sali
"uhito men are created equal" 2. Negroes are
not like white men therefore they cannot be
politically equal to white men. 3. Ii you admit
colorcd persons to the polls you must admit
them to the parlor; if they once get into the
parlor they will inevitably marry your
daughters. A. Every normal white man is
competent to be Chief-Justice or General-in-
Chief of the Army; every normal negro is
not; therefore no negro ought to vote.
The first of these arguments is altogether
beyond our comprehension, and we shall
therefore not try to refute 1t. The second
might apply quite as well to the Celtic and
Saxon as TO the African and Caucasian races,
there being, as everybody knows, good deal
more difference between say Sixth Ward
Irishman, newly naturalzed, and Boston or
South Carolina gentleman, than between a
Southern planter and his OctOrOon offspring
Something like the third argument we have
encountered before in the sermons of the Rev.
Petroleum v. Nasty. If the daughters of good
b<, Ofa fIu
irresistible, and q negrOkwhO can't vote utterly
loathsome and abOminable, they must be diff
ferently organized from other girls, and quite
unlike any young ladesSwhom We ever met.
To the last reason of all we might object that
the sequence of the conclusion from the
premises is not clear; but we might also de-
mur to the proposition that every ordinary
white man is fit to be Judge or a general.
We have tried several very ordinary white
men in both capacities, and have found them
conspicuous failures. We are not without
serious misgivings that Mr. Mulahy himself is
not exactly Kent or q Marshall, and that
had Mr. NJ. ii. Duckworth commanded the
Army of the Potomac, Richmond would never
have been taken.
Is For sweeping and audacious assertions we
never met with anybody equal to this commit
tee in the whole course of our lives. Here are
some specimens of their impudence The ed
ucated negro, whenever he gets chance, re-
lapses instantly into his original African bar
barism. He "cannOt be included in the
same government with white men" without
violating the laws of nature. He never has
complehended, and never can comprehend, the
principles of civil and religious liberty. Unless
government can confer powers of mind upon
him it can do nothing for him whatever.
There must be one law for women and an
other law for men, one law for blacks and
another law for whites.
We are not very fond of comic resolutions
of Congress, but after reading the views of the
States Rights Society We are half tempted to
approve Mr.. Broomalrs proposition for the
appointment of standing committee of PO-
litical Ethnology, TO take eOgnizance OF all
matters pertaining to the origin, differences,
and political rights Of the various races OF