Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-05
Radical FaIsehOOds and Fabrica-
lions EXPOSED.

lions Exposed.
While Mr.. Trumbull, of Illinois, was
recounting in the Senate a few days ago,
the reported outrages in the South, he was
interrupted by Hon. Garrett Davis, who
made the following statement;
The report in relation to the State of
Kentucky was given through the Freed
mems Bureau, and is at least nine-tenths
of it false A General in the army, con-
nected with the Freedmen's Bureau, re-
ported that in the city of Lexington twelve
negro soldiers ON their return from the
army had been seized by mob, and all
of them most inhumanly whipped and
some of them terribly lacerated. The
Legislature was then in session; it raised
a special committee TO investigate the mat
ter, and this General was summoned be-
fore the Legislature. He happened to be
in this city when | received news of the
proceeding in the Legislature, and | had
a conversation with him in the marble
room, in which l told him that his charge
had been investigated by the authorities
of Lexington, anG Legislative commit
tee was charged specially with its invest
cation, and they had come TO the COnclu-
sion that it was wholly and utterly false,
and there was not single fact upon
which to base the charge. This whole
charge, so far as it relates to Kentucky, is
pretty much of the same character. |
concede that there were irregularities and
murders in the State of Kentucky, during
and since the war, but the vast majority
of the murders perpetrated there have
been by colOred people on colored people.
In my own county, which was the second
largest slave county in the State, have
heard of not one solitary cOlored man
that has been murdered by white man.
have heard of two or three murders
of white men by colOred men, and have
heard of several rapes upon tender infants
by colored men. A colored man com
mittCd an act of violence upon child
that was ten years old during the war,
used knife, and the consequence was
that she was partially disembowelcd.
He was seized by crowd and was hung
and that was the only instance of the TAX
ing the life of colored man by white
persons that / have had any knowledge
of in the county of Bourbon. | heard of
various cases of that kind of violence
upon infant children of tender years by
cOlored men, who were treated
and punished in the same way
and they arc about the
amount of the murders of colored men
by white men, if they may be termed
such, except a few in the counties of
Mercer, Marion and another county, where
there are some few Ku-Klux clubs.
There heard of few colored men being
murdered by those clans. have desired
that those clans should be put down by
any force, and fully justify colored men
or any other men who are outraged by
such clans in shooting them down. But
the outrages of those Ku- Klux clans have
been mainly on white persons, aud have
extended to ex-rebel soldiers as well as to
Union soldiers; and that is about the COM
plexion of all the offenses of that kind in
the State of Kentucky. r..
In village in Western New York, a
few days ago, nice young man put a
sheet around him to scare a Dutchman.
The Teutonic gentleman says, 81 Just
jump off my wagon, and vip der ghost
all the time. would vip him if he was
whole graveyard" Some one asked
the young man what allied his black eye,
and he said he hadreceived bad news from
Germany.