, 1862-07-08
MATTERS At the CAPITAL,
THE HOUSE DISCUSS GEN.
HUNTERS POLICY.
NEGRO SOLDIERS HISTDRIC4L
AND USEFUL.
THE WHOLE SUBJECT VENTILATED,
The Disposition Of Returned Pris-
01ETS.
TSDpcfal Di5Datch tn the Cbicaen Trfhrra I

Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.1
1.-The following disIstc was detained on Sunday
night :-EDs. TR1BJNE.7
WASHINGTON, July 6. 1862.
Hunters letter about Ills negro soldiers
brought up lively debate in the House Sat
urday, IN which some very conservative men
said some very ultra things, that must prove
sadly firing for the Southern heart.
Nicklffe wanted to reconsider tile vote b.
which Hunters letter was ordered printed,
ard couldn't contain himself on the insult
Hunter had offered to loyal people. He
charged officers Of the government and of the
army with having undertaken, without law,
against order, and in violation Of every prin-
ciple Of humanity, to assune the power Of
enlisting slaves to serve against their masters.
Gen. Hunters letter was in mannor and terms
nnbecoming general. He held Secretary
Stanton responsible for Hunters conduct, aud
sreerirgly said Hunter had better have been
seeing to his business when the late disaster
in South Carolina took place, than tinkering
with negroes.
Mallory made the usual Kentucky speech
against arnling the blacks. He ridiculed the idea
OF making them soldiers; said single cannon
shot would put 10000 Of them to flight; and
closed By declaring that arming them was bar
barous, lnhuman and contrary to the practice
Of all civilized nations and that it was almost
as bad IS putting the tomahawk into the
hands OF the savage.
Ihisstirred up Thad- Stevens, who inquired,
how does it come that they are so donscrous
to their masters, when single cannon shot
Tll1 put ten thousand to flight? Or how is it
they have not courage enough to make SOL
dlers when you call them savage aud danger
ous as Indians? But the gentleman was mis-
taken III his facts. Common history, he re-
| peated, proved them false. It had been the
general practise Of civilized natious to EN-.
| ploy slaves for military purposes, whenever
| and wherever needed.
Loycjoy here begged leave to interrupt and
| rtadfrom common school history about J. Jlck.
sons arming slaves in the war of~1Sl3, and
his promise to give freedom to all who served.
He then read Jackson's general order, thank
! Ing the negroes for their gallant success. say.
| ing that he had net been unaware Of their
| good qualities soldiers, but that they hnd fat
surpassed his highest expectations, and re.
assuring them Of emancipation as 8 reward
Tor their conduct Loyeioy concluded his
demonstration On the negro frightened gentle.
nan By reference TO another history, showing
that one-fourth Of the men who helped win
PerEy's victory on the lakes were negroes,
The effect Of all this was sensational. Men
who had been denouucing Hunter couldn't
hare been more astonished if one of Hunters
own hombshells from Port Royal had been
dropped among them.
sedgwick heightened the effect BIZ reading
an elaborate statement Of the New Z ork State
Librarian, showing that nearly every civilized
nation had, some time or other, employed ne
groes as soldiers, and always with success, and
winding up with the example of Brazil, thu
largest e1ayeholdlng enapira Of the world, using
regiments Of s1aEes at this very day, as among
the best soldiers they have. Diyen begged t.
trespass on Stevens time, just to say that ht
had long been profoundly convinced that Con
g1ess Jailed In its imperative duty, just SO ione
as it failed to provide for the enlistment O
negro troops to serve in unhealthy regions t.
which they had become acclimated, and hs
now had bill to that end prepared, and VA
leaas 10 Otter it at the first opportunity
lAat tfesoned Mr. Steyens) Is precisely wha
l would have done long ago, only I wasn't ;
conservative, and so they'd have called it =,
abolition scheme. Stevens then went n,
with usual earnestness and force, to urg
the necessity OF using negroes to save whit,
men. He declared TINT all over his Stat
households were everywhere deso1atcd to -da
because We hadn't troops enough, and no,
they wanted to call On them for more to b
sent into unwholesoune climates, where e.
posure was certain death to any white mat
sid asserting that, while such policy VIC
pursued, the suppression Of the rebellion ws
hopeless.
The effect Of the discussion was seen, Hhe
atthe close Of Stevens speech the House lai
} "ick1iffe'e resolution On the table by a yot
! Of "A to 90.
There Will be 70 more sneering At Hunte<
letter OF his negro brigade.
- Leonard I'ottridge, Esq, one Of tt
! publishers Of The Lacrosse Reoub1in1n h.