The Hickman courier., 1872-02-03

Senator McManama, in the course oil
the discussion on the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad bill, charged that resolu.
tiohs were passed by mass meeting in
Louisville during the war to hang Con
federates who should be found in the
city to the lamp posts, and gave as hi:
authority Hon JAS s. Chrisman, the
Representative from Wayne.
Tuesday last Mr. Chrisman, rising tc
question of privilege, said:
Mr.. SPEAKER-I rise to question
of privilege.
l will state I was not present in the
Senate on Saturday last, when that body
7 had under discussion the Cincinnati
/ Southern Railroad bill have, however
learned, Eending the debate on that ques-
ton, the Senator from Grant, Mr. Nc
Manama, to repel some charges made by
the enemies Of the bill, said in the late
war and shortly after the surrender OF
the Confederate forces at Fort DOnel>on.
4 meeting was held in the city of Louis
vile, in which meeting it was resolved.
that if the Federal authorities insulted
them by bringing rebel soldiers as pris
oners Of war through the city they would
hang one at every lamp~post IN the city
In response to this allegation L under
stand that one of the Senators from
Louisville denied that any such meeting
was ever held so far as he knew, aud de
manded his authority for the charge,
whereupon Mr.. McManama gave up my
I -,
the Senator. My authority for making
that statement is found in an issue OF the
CyRthiana News of date January %,
1871. in which these words are used
when the Donelson fight came off, in
which the Confederates were defeated by
the Yankees, aud while the soldiers of
the Southern army were marching North
under guard, as prisoners of war, the
citizens of Louisville held a mass indig-
nation meeting and adopted resolutions,
in which they boldly announced to their
friends, the Federal authorities, that they
must not bring their rebel prisoners
through Louisville; that if they did they
would hang a rebel soldier upon every
lamp post in their city that they would
not and could not stand the disgrace"
l did not intend to be understood as
making the charge upon my knowledge,
as | left Kentucky tor the South in the
fall of 1861 but did credit implicitly the
statement of that truly reliable paper
The Louisville delegation pronounced
the charges utterly false, and through
Mr.. Wade, of that city, thus replied to
Col. Chrisman:
Mr.. SPEAKER-I would not attribute
the language of the article read to the
Republican members of this House nor
to the Republican party of Kentucky, as
believe neither the party ncr its repre-
seutatives capable of cherishing in their
hearts these sentiments. l would not
receive these slanderous declar-
ations as having emiuated from any part
of the Federal army, which during the
war was in or near the city OF Louis
vile: slanderous because they are
against the common principles Of human
ity, and would have disgraced the most
ultra Union League.
l regret that gentlemen in Kentucky
should have found it consistent with I
their judgments to have given the slight /
est eredeuee to reports so unreasonable /
aud unjust.
It may not be amiss for me to state,
that when the first regiment of Federal /
troops was raised from the city of Louis
Vile, it was found necessary to place (
their encampment in the State of Iudi /
ana; aud when the regiment first Cross I
ed the river and marched into the city, /
so great was the apprehension upon the
part Of the Federal authorities as to the /
hostility Of the people, that the regiment I
was armed with loaded muskets aud fix /
ed bayouets DO not refer to this mat
ter in commentator Of that hostility Gas |
that is unnecessary, but only to show the
position Of the people of Louisville in
regard to the people of the South.
know nothing Of this newspaper and /
have nothing to say in regard to it, but
deny that any occurrence took place in /
Louisville like that set forth by it, aud /
am very sure that the people whom |
represent need no deteuse from this very
unjust aspersiou.