Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-02-14
VOLUME xxXI.--No. i.
From the Lexington Ky Observer and Reporter.
General Eisk,s Speech at Cincinnati.

From the Lexington (Ry.) Observer and Reporier.
General Fisk's Speech at Cincinnati.
"Only the day before yesterday, in Lex
ipeton, thirteen discharged colored soldiers
stood in tie streets, in full sight of Henry
Clay's monument, with their bodies lacerated,
their backs bleeding from the cruel lash, their
heads cut to the scalp, and one or two Of
them with their eyes put Gut and what for,
do you supposed Simply for going to their
former masters and asking for their wives
and children! Iappcaledto the civil au-
thorites in their behalf but was told that
there was no law in Kentucky to help them.
I heard there of slave to be sold on GER
tain day 81 made an arrangement with the
Master Commissioners to buy. hin myself,
as the last slare to be sold in Kentucky
am here to protect Just such men as
those from the cruelty and barbarism of the
blue grass REGION and do you think I will
see men who have been in the war three years
with myself maltreated and butchered'? No,
not BY any means. Two women were shot
dead BY their former master for asking and
trying to get their children back, in Ken
tucky, and I fear her Legislature WAL not do
justicd to the negro. They are good men
enough in every thing but the negro, and
that stirs up every thing that is bad and Bit
ter in their nature.
al saw little white egg, the other day,
called the egg Of Pbaraoh's serpents.. You
touch it. with spark of fire and out comes
fame and serpent that coils around and
Kisses in your face. The people of Kentucky
opposed to freedmen are doal like those
eggs-very fair to look at, but when YOU
touch them With spark of liberty, out comes
tho flame ofanger and the Kissing serpent
ofslander."
f. The above is an extract from speech do
livered by General Fisk in Cincinnati on
Thursday last, and reported in the Oincin-
natl Commercial o. the 10Th instant. The
statements made are clear, distinct and un.
equivocal as to persons, time and place, and
well calculated by such distinctness to obtain
credence, especially among the people of the
North. Yet every statement is an unmiti-
gated fslsehood. We have made inquiries of
both black and white to ascertain if there
structure of1nalicious cslumny could have
been built. We knew Of course that it was
impossible that there should have been thir.
teen lacerated, bleeding and manned discharg.
ed soldiers on the streets Of Lexington, where
there was then company Of negro soldiers
stationed, without some csmmotion being ex {.
cited. Ourinquiries were devoted to wheth.
er there was single discharged soldier who
had received, not stripes and wounds, but
any jill usdge from his former owner. Not
one was known to black or white.
General Fisk made speech to the colored
population of this place last week, but We are
assured made no alluson to any such barbar.
itics. His statements were made in Cipcin-
natl, where there was go one present to con.
tradict him, and were intended exclusively
for Northern circulation and effect.
We have also made inquiries of the Mas
tor Commissioner cohcerning the less impor-
tant statement as to the sale of the slave
girl, and found it equally destitute Of truth.
4 1t has too often been the habit of the South
to treat with dcrision or silent contempt the
gross falsehoods circulated es to their barnar.
tiles. In obedience to our duty as = corduc-
tor Of the press, we denounce the statements
given above as Infamous lies, and we, brand
their author as an infamous liar.