The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-20
The Case of Gen. Fisk--DecisiOn of
the Committee,

The Case of Gen. Fisk--DecisiOn of
the Committee.
LEXINGTON, May 1.-THE committee
was organized under resolution Of the
General Assembly, approved January
80, 1866, and was composed of Hon. W.
A Dudley, of the Senate, and Hons. J.
NJ Armstrong and B. T. Buckner, of
the House.
On February II following, after 8
majority and minority report (the lat
ter by Mr.. Armstrong; had been made,
the committee was directed to sit
during the recess, and continue the in
vestigation, after Gen. Fisk had been
notified of the time and place when
the sessions would be held. The con-
tinued sessions of the committee had
been granted at the urgent request Of
Gen. Fisk's friends, and the committee
naturally expected him to notify them
when he was ready to resume the in
vestigstion, the more especially, as the
committee had no knowledge, of them
selves, of any witnesses whose testi-
mony would be material, who had not
been previously examined. They,
therefore, took no action before hearing
from Gen. Fisk, but held themselves, at
all times, ready to take up the case
whenever they were assured he was
ready.
A paragraph having appeared in the
Louisville Journal of March %, to the
effect that General Fisk was earnestly
DESTROYS of investigation, and had a
week or more previously written to Mr..
Dudley, stating that desire, but had re.
ceiyed no answer, Mr.. D. att once, in a
note to the editors of the Journal, an>
nounced that he had received no letter
from General F., though he went to
the postoffice daily. He added that he
would Immediately summon the CON-
mittee, in order that the anxious yearn-
ing of the General for an investigation
might be gratifed.
On the same day acknowledgement
Jacobs informed Mr.. D. that General
F. had arrived in Lexington the night
previous; whereupon Mr.. D. at once
proceeded to the Broadway Hotel, but
inquiry resulted in ascertaining that
the gentleman who so earnestly desired
an opportunity to acquit himself of
grave charges had departed, taking the
early train for LouisYille!
A few days after General F. an
nounCed to Mr.. Armstrong in Louis
vile, his readiness to meet the commit
tee. He declined addressing the chair
man of the committee, Mr.. D., whose
duty it was to summon the committee,
for the reason-as alleged afterward by
one of his military triends-that he
had received no reply to the letter he
stated he had written to Mr. D. on the
18th of March, and which the gentle
man neUer received.
1t would require too much space, and
be impossible in a mere extract as this
is intended to be, to detail all the sub
sequent action of the committee or Of
Gen. Fisk. Some days ago, April IA,
Mr. D., Chairman, in written commu-
nication, notified Gen. Fisk that the
committee would meet on May 7, and
proceed to take evidence as to the
truth of the language attributed to
him.
On May 7, Gen. Fisk, from Nashville,
writes to Mr.. Armstrong that he Is ex-
ceedingly sorry the committee could
not find it convenient to meet earlier;
that he was then on the eve of going
to Memphis, whittier he had been or
dered, and where his duties would de-
tain him for many days. He then calls
on Mr.. Armstrong to bear witness, that
he has constantly exerted himself to
procure an investigation, and was at all
times anxious for an examination into
the charges, etc, etc. Then, branching
of, he speaks at length of the Govern
ment Inspector in Eastern kentucky,
who is taking evidence as to the out
RACES on negroes, etc, etc, all of which
talk has not the slightest reference to
his case.
The candid public will readily de-
termine the extent and sincerity of his
desire for an investigation when they
learn that from beginning to end he
has never furnished the name of a sOli-
tary witness to sUbstantiate his infa-
nous assertion, nor has he at any time
given the name of a single freedman
who was said to be so tearfully out
ragged This he was repeatedly urged
to do, and certainly he would not have
refused to do 80 in defense of his own
honor and reputation for Veracity, if he
had been able to do so.
The committee in conclusion, reiter-
ate their sincere belief, after full, pa
tient and continued examination, that
1.-THE assertions made by Fisk as to out
RACES on Freedmen, said to have been
committed in this county, are false and
slanderous.'
And thus is Clinton B. Fisk, Major
General, disposed Of