Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-06-08

Gf:.J. GEN CLINTON B. FISK is the Com
missioner Of the Freedmen's Bureau for Ken
;1,cl;r, tennessee, and North Alabama Las
January he made speech in Cincinnati, the
statements whereof were, at the time, contra
aicteG by the Kentucky press The Legisla
ire Of that State though the matter of impor
tspce enough to demand its action, and it CON
.eouently adopted the following resolutions,
rhlch we're approved on the thirtieth of Jan
rary.
Whereas. It is represented in the public
journals chat Major General Clinton B. Fisk,
{Ia reed Of the Freedmen's Bureau in Ken
ircFv, did, on the 18th instant, deliver an ad-
dess in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which
le :1ade, among others, these statements
"Crly she Gay before yesterday, in Lexington,
rhirteen discharged colored soldiers stood in the
streets, in full sight of Henry Clay monument,
,,ith their bodies lacerated, their backs bleed
i1g Grom the cruel lash, their heads cut to the
se2D enc one or two of them with their eyes
.ut cut! And what for, do you suppose? Sim
,,ly iE6r going to their former masters and ask
i,c for their wives and children I appealed to
rs civi! authorities in their behalf, but was
iole that there was M law in Kentucky to help
:ler. ! heard there Of slave to be sold on
certain day. ! made an arrangement with
ne master commissioner to buy him myself, as
Iae last slave 70 be sold In Kentucky" and
.TheTeas, It is believed that those state
merts nave &c foundation in fact, and are cal
Quilted tc place the people Of Kentucky in a
else Light before the country; therefore
ze it resolved, That committee oftWo from
na House, and one from the Senate, be ap-
pointed, whose duty it shall be to proceed i'm
r,eGia.ely 10 the City of Lexington, and ascer-
pia the truth or talsity of the statements
eIlegeG to have been made by said Fisk and
,4ej said committee, notify General Fisk by
mei o. their appointment, IN order that he may
Dpear before the committee, if he 50 desire,
sli communicate to them the name of thsiper-
soG ~ whom the truth Of the statement made
}. him can be established, and the name Of the
civil officer by whom the opinion mentioned by
i'm vas given, and reporte to this General
ssembly, .. - .,,,r,.l
The Committee was composed Of Messrs
7. H.. Dudley Of the Senate, and B. +. Buck
rei end j NJ Armstrong Of the House. at.i2.
from !:1e day of their appointment to the
l,tr o. Nay these gentlemen did all they could
tc -each General Fisk, in order to get the proof
Ct his assertions; but he persistentiy refused to
rect them, anG kept out OF their reach. :,
r,he Committee being satisfied that they
corlG not cope to get him to appear before
tae-1 made their report to Governor Bran
.ette on the 18th Of May. They said:
;|e can but reiteratc the opinion formerly
expressed to the Assembly, That the charges
.lade by General Fisk in reference to the NAL
treatment of negro soldiers in the vicinity Of
Lexington, and the conduct of the civil author
ties OF the State toward offenders of that class,
a2s false and clanderous. y s..s.
.The simple fact that, after four months Of
@elay, while suffering under the most public
Contradiction, and constantly expressing. his
:illingneSs and ability to establish by proof the
@-ut:l 81 his statements, General Fisk has
tGleG to furnish either to the committee or the
)r5c the name Of single negro who had been
outraged as charged BY him, or the name OF a
2iDgle person who had committed such an out
'aee, o. Of single witness who had witnessed
IS commission, would be to their minds con
CIps:ye that no such outrage had been commit
:e2; End the testimony heretofore reported by
,hcll confirms shat conclusion as strongly as
2eg&iire testimony can do. t.
!: i ci rhicln IS respectfully submitted.
". 4. DUDLEY Senate
-. :. r}euc. 3. 7. BUCKNER House