Mr. DAVIS. Yes, sir; he told me that he letter to a member of the committee, and he had at his room that evening an exGovernor of the State of NCarolina, Governor Swayne. In relation to the general charges made by the Senfrom Massachusetts of crueland inhuman treatment of the negro soldiers in Kentucky, I do not believe one word of them. That Senator is misinformed. Here is the plain charge of General Fisk in a very few and sim 10words in his speech at Cincinnati afew wee s ago: “Only the day before esterday.in Lexington, 13 discharge colored soldiers stood in the street, in fnll sight of Henry Clays monument.with their bodieslacerated, their backs bleeding from the cruel lash, their heads out to the scalp and one or 2 of themwith their eye put out; and what for. do you suppose? Simplyfor gotng to their former masters and asking for their wives and ehildren I appealed to the civil nuthoriticsin their bohalf. but was told that there was no law in Kentucky to help them." Who can believe that statement after hearing the proof which I have read? I believe all of the witnesses whose statements I have read except Mr. Johnson are radicals of the extremest kind. Here is this General Fisk detailing facts facts of great enormity, of the extremest cruelty, and of very considerable effects uion the persons of these abused soldiers; and when this committee upon its official examination, resorting to all the radicals in Lexington to give statements in relation to these charges, certify that they never heard of them and they believe that they could not have happened without their knowing of the facts, it is impossible that any fair minded man can give the least credit to any such charges. Sir. whenever a negro makes complaint to the civil authorities of Kentucky of having suffered such outrages as these, and the civil authorities and the civil law do not give him immediate and ample redress, I shall denounce my own native State and those who are emploed and trusted to execute its laws; but no such transactions as these ever happened in the State of Kentucky, and I defy the Senfrom Massachusetts to give the parties, the time, place, and circumstance. There may have been a melec, a military conflict there, and there may have been some raids in which there wasacollision between whites and blacks, where outrages were perpetrated; but for an outrage to be deliberately perpetrated upon a negro by awhite man, in as atrocious a manner as is here charged by General Fish, and for the civil authorities to inform him that the laws (if the land afforded no redress for such wrongs, is as basely false as it is possible for anything to be.