Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-27

0en< Fhnol's speech NJ Cincinnati,
From Is s.szinsson Ky obssfv sr and RsDsrierl
ss0nIy ths day before YESTERDAY. in Lex
ington. shirfeen discharged c5lored soldiers
stood Ii the streets, in fall sight Of Henry
Claws monument, with their bodies lace
rated, their backs bleeding from the cruel
lash, their heads cut to the scalp and one or
two Of them with their eyes put out and |
what for, do you suppose Simply for
going to their former masters and asking for
their wives and childrenl | appealed to the
civil authorities in theirbehalf, but was told
that there was no law in Kentucky to help
them. heard there Of slave to be sold ON
a certain day; / made an arrangement with
the Master Commissioner tobuy him myself,
as the last sydse 70 be sold Ia Kaatacky-
am here to protect just such men as
those from the cruelty and barbarisn OF the
bluegrass region and do you think will
see men who have been in the war three
years with myself maltreated and butchered2
No, not by any means Two women were
shot dead by their former master Tor asking
and trying to get their children back, in
Kentucky, and ] fear her Legislature will
net do Justice to the negro They are good
men enough in every thing but the negro,
and that stirs up every thing that is bad and
bitter in their nature. kEkM
az saw little white egg, the other day,
called the egg of Pharaohs serpents- You
| touch it with spark Of fire and out comes
ay1ame and serpent that coils around and
| misses in your face. The people of Ken
lucky opposed to freedmen are deal like
those eggs-yery fair to look at, but when
YOU touch them with a spark ofliberty, out
comes the fame of anger and the hissing
serpent of SANDER
The above is an extract from speech de-
livered by General Fisk in Cincinnati on
| Thursday last, and reported in the Cncin-
natl Commercial of the 18th inst. The
statements made are clear, distinct and I'M
| equivocal as to persons, time and place, and
well calculated by sucn distinctness to OBJ.
tain credence, especially among the people
of the North. Yet every statement is an
unmitigated falsehood. We have made in
quiries of both black and white 10 ascertain
if there was single grain of truth on which
the structure of malicious caiumny could
have been built. We knew of course that it
was impossible that there should have been
thirteen lacerated, bleeding, and maimed
discharged soldiers on the streets of Lex
ington, where there was then a company of
negro soldiers stationed, without some COM
| fuOllOu DtluS tAClttu. OtI liquil1cc hciC
devoted to whether there was single dis
charged soldier who had received, not
stripes and wounds, but any i'll usage from
his former owner. Not one was known to
black or white.
General Fisk made speech to the coIored
population of this place last week, but we
are assured made no allusion to any such
barbarities. His statements were made in
Cincinnati, where there was no one present
TO contradict him, and were inteded ex-
clusively for Northern circulation and effect
We have also made inquiries Of the Mas
ter Commissioner concerning the less impor-
tant statement as to the sale of the slave
| girl, and found it equally destitute Of truth.
| The Legislature of Kentucky, now in ses-
sion, has attached sufficient importance to
this statement of Gen. Fisk, to appoint q
committee to correspond with him on the
subject.