Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-15
The Kentucky Consresslmeis.

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cinnati Commercial writes as follows:
The Congressional Committee appoint
ed to investigate the loyalty of the rebel
members elected from this State to the
Lower House have adjourned ndleft the
State. The rebel papers, anxious to fore
stall public opinion, have assured. the
country that nothing has been proved
against the Kentucky congressman, and
interference with the rights ef;=the State.
One paper says the Radical Congress will
have to apologize to the people for sending
Committee here, and hints that the in
yestigators were SO ashamed Of themselves
they hastened their departure from the
midst OF the chiralrous and Virtuous Ken
tuckians.. Now, all this, of course, is rebel
buster, and like all Kentucky matters
must be set down as three-fourths froth and
one-fourth beer. The Committee, a polite
and industrious set of gentlemen, did their
work well, as will be -knowns when Con
gress meets. Careful inquiry e1icits that a
case has been made against i've, Hnet six,
of the rebel members : The evidence
against Beck, of the Seventh District, is
said to have been conclusive, showing that
he. publicly thanked God for the defeat Of
the5Union army at Bull Run in 1S61-made
speeches with John c.. Breckenridge de-
nouncing the utyrannicaE Lincoln Gov
ernment,," and urging resistance that he
was at one time about to accept a commits:
sion in the rebel army, and go On the staff
of Breckenridge, and that during the war
he was a tyirulent and bitter rebel. and
did all in his power. too help thesrebel
In the case of John d. Young, from the
Ninth District, whosis Hon. Sam. Nick lees
opponent, it was proved that he made
speeches in favor of the rebellion /; reioiced
over the victories of the rebel army; left
the State in 1862, toavoid taking the bath;
declared Lincoln ought to be hanged I; that
the cause of JEFF. DAVIS was right; that he
would never vote for or support a Union
man !; that he sent provisions to the rebel
troops; went out and met the,rebels when
they came TO- O WingsYille praised their
cause, and invited them to. his house,
where he entertained them handsomely,
and that he had persuaded the sons of
Joshua Ewing to enter the rebel army.
One witness swore that in 1861, he saw
three men at night steal out of Owings
vile, one of whom hetook to be ohm ID.
Young, and that he believed they went out
to confer with the rebels. ,es
Capt. Cal. Morgan, a brother of the
famous John, testified that Young had sent
him provisions, and advised him to take
what provisions he needed from the citi
zens. Young, hesaid, had always been re-
garded by the rebels as their friend, and
one who wished the success of the rebel
cause, and as an evidence of his good feel.
ing for rebels, Morgan said Young had ad-
vised with him, and invited linn to come
and stay at his house. g
The evidence against Grover, Jones and
Knott, is said to be- stronger than in the
cases just cited. -
When the Congressional Committee
came to Kentucky 1t was. understood the
evidence was to be Kept strictly private,
and, although your correspondent was
well informed OF what went on before the
Committee, he studiously avoided giving
any publicity to the testimony. One Of
the Congressman gave to his home paper
synopsis of the evidence elected in his
case, and since that, the Courier, of this
city has frequently referred to the evidence
taken by the investigators. We can hard
ly, at this late hour, be charged with yio-
lating the wishes of the Committee in
making their doings public, and we GER
tainly should not have referred to the mat
ter at all but for the gross misrepresenta7
tions of the rebel press. So far from being
true that nothing has been proved show.
ing that the members of Congress elect
from Kentucky are rebels, it is confidently
asserted that case Of disloyalty has been
made out against every one of them, and
not a single man will gethis seat. If, how
ever, they should get their seats, Blakely,
Mckee, and other defeated loyalists, will
contest them, and prove conclusively that
the incumbents were elected by rebels,
who, by their disloyalty, were disqualified
from voting.