New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-28
FROM WASHING TON.
From Oar Own Correspondent.

Mr.. Gartrell of Georgia, new Member OF the
House of Representatives made his debut upon
the floor to-day. He is tall, good-ookiDg man,
and speaks With ease and fuency in that African
style of oratory which the public speakers OF the
South are beginning to acquire, apparently from
the example of the negro Methodist preachers.
To those accustomed to a more composed and gen.
teman-ke mode of speaking, it greatly Injuries the
effect of sometimes really excellent matter-as in
the case of Mr.. Keitt of South Carolina, for ex
ample. whose theatrical manner, starts grimaces.
contortions, gyratons and tOssngs of the head and
arms, not unfrequently deprive him of the credit be
deserves for clothing sound sense and generous
sentiments in good language.
With the air Ofa gentleman who was kindly degn-
ing to turn for time the crank of the universe
Mr. Gartrel rehearsed to the amused and laughing
House the usual stale and q thousand times
p0ded scriptural defense of Slavery, which he EVIL
IDENTIFY regarded as something original and sure to
strike Congress with irresistible force so soon az
they should hear it. The singular confusion of
ideas on historical and geographical subjects which
prevails at the South was strikngly manifested by
Mr. Carried in spite of the elaborate preparation he
had bestowed upon his maiden effort. He twice
spoke Of Guiana as an island; and quoting from the
25th chapter of Levitcus, the passage, 'Thy bonds
:" men and thy bOndsmaids which thou shalt have
shall be of the heather that are round about yOu,
he declared that the Africans were the heather thus
referred to. The learned gentleman's historical
and chronological studies have been apparently lin
tied to the luminous and volumnOus pages OF Fetch
er on Slavery book which contains more folly
and ialsehood, probably, than any other in ex-
istence. Otherwise Mr. Gartrell would have
been aware that the Hebrews them
selves from Africa when they entered Canaan,
and that the heather round about them.
of whom Moses wrote, were the most civilized
people of the earth ut that period-the PPhnicans,
the SyriaDs, Assyrians and Babylonians-all Of
fhem white Caucasian races superior in culture IL
the Hebrews, and undoubtedly much lighter in
coor-for the Hebrews, though originally of Asiatc
origin, had doubtless become AfricaIized somewhat
by a residence of centuries in Africa and by their
intermarrages with negroes. Moses himself, ac-
cording to the historian Of his own race, JOsephus,
was married to al Ethiopian woman a princess
from the upper Nile. In fact the Hebrews as we
learn from HerodOtus StrabO, and other classic au-
thOrites were universally regarded by the
heather round about them an inferior race, de-
based by their seryile origin as the runaway slaves
of the Egyptians, and by the contamination ot ep.
rosy They made slaves of the heather about
them when they caught them, AZ prisoners III bat
tie, and the heather returned the compliment with
interest, and with usury even, for the Hebrews
were much more frequently the enslaved than the
enslayers.
The slaves of the Jews like most of the saves ct
antiquity were Of the white race Negroes were
little known TO the ancieDts, and the true negro
races were separated from the Jews in Canaan by
two thousand miles Of hostile territory. The slaves
of Abraham, whom Mr.. Gartrell referred to with 50
much JUNCTION, were the men OF hls tribe. and no
more slaves than the followers of any other BedOun
Shiek down TO the present day. IL Mr. Gartrell
will do as Abraham did, put arms into the hands OF
his slaves and march with them into land that
does not recognize the fugitive slave law, he Will
speedily learn the difference between the " ser
wants of Abraham and the chattcls of sn Auerloan
stakeholder.
There were some interesting episodes in the
course of Mr. Gartrells speech. He was dealing
out statistics about the diminished production of
sugar and coffee in Hsyti-a diminutlon which
proves nothing except that in lis, the entire labor.
ing population men and women, we're scOurqed
into the culture Of sugar and coffee, to the neglect
Of everything else, while in l-5c the population
lives in ease and comfort and consume sugar and
coffee, while their ancestors only raised them Tor
the consumption of others. Mr.. Blair rose at this
point and stated To the House that the exports from
this country to that portion OF iIayti occupied by
free negroes $3.50 900 greater than our entire
trade with Mexico. which has 5000, 900 OF Popula
ton. Our export of -four to Hayti in l-5l az
shown by the Congressional document on CONNER
cia Relations was eight times more than to Cuba;
of pork, six times more; OF dry goods twelve times
more. This" said Mr.. Blair, ia the value Of
that island which has been destroyed, az Il is SAID
"by the emsnc patiOn of the slaves
The gentleman from Georgia was at first nom
pused by this Interpolation, but presently recover
ing himself said that il was not what the negroes
ate or wore, but what they made that was in ducs-
ton. 1t was not the exports L. them but their
exports to others!
The House, though not disposed 10 press hard on
new member, smiled audibly at this novel ellci-
dation of political economy. Mr.. Blair kindly ex-
planned to the bewildered Georgian that the negroes
must have been able to pay for what they ate and
wore, OF they never would have got the -four and
pork and dry goods from this country.
To this home hit Mr.. Gartrel replied, amid the
general laughter of the House g that the negroes
"were supported by their fostering Government
compliment to the craftsmanship and financial re-
sources of his Majesty, the Emperor Faustln, ct
which that ebony potcntste may be Justly proud
At the end of high flown flourish about tn
Scrptura and evangelical character of Slavery, I'd
orator was interrupted by Mr.. LovejOy OF Illinois
who read to him the following passage from the
23d chapter of Deuteronomy: Thou shalt not de-
Liver unto his master the servant which u
escaped from his master unto thee"
All that Mr.. Gartrell could say in rejoinder to this
| was; Does the gentleman consider the African
| equal to the white man ?"
c. y nat depends altogether upon his character
Sir, was Mr. Lovejoy's reply.
| al 'ihs point Mr.. Gartres more experienced
Trends ON the floor came to hi. relief and pro-
Ts'ea agalhs. These embarrassing Interruptions.
ne Meh, "h " tue expiration OF his hour, when the
| Chairman's hammer cut short an orst;on. which
viii doubtless be read with pride and SATISFACTION in
| the enlightened State OF Georgia
|
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