Mr. GRINNELL. Mr. Speaker, the member from Kentucky, [Mr. Roussmn] who used unparliamentary language in reference to my self is, I observe, in his seat, and I embrace the 1st opportunity since the publication of his speech to show him what my animus toward him was in the remark I made, and “that I had no desire to do him injustice or to impu n his honor.” Here is his ownlanguage in the lobe. It presents the question of fact, and I read it: “If you intend to arrest white peopleon the exparte statements of negroes and hold them to suit your convenience for trial and fine and imprison them. then I saythat I opposeyou; and ifyous ould so arrest and punish me. would kill you when you setmeat liberty. ". Here is the person to whom the member referred. I rea from his answer to a question put by the chairman of the select committee: nc“cIterdewfeitrhtotheeo Florencedl MrneeCnasleb. asoneof themen conBureau in Kentucky, and he is the man whom I told that if he undertook to arrest inc and my family as othgrs had beenarrested and punished I would kill him. I give the member the full benefit of an explanation of his declaration that he would kill awhite officer acting under oath and in the discharge of his duty, if that isa less unworthy act than to shoot an American citizen of African descent. That may not have been degrading to his State, and whether it was, as I said, language unheeomingan American officer is a question which [shall refer to the gallant soldiers of the State of Iowa who never fought, thank God! but upon one side, and whether it was language unbecoming an American otheer I might refer to the code of the 1st of American generals, and to the greatest of American captains, the Lieutenant General of the U.S. I have nothing more to add, only to repeat that my animus toward the member was the kindest. I criticised barbarous laws and his language from a sense of duty, and I have given his own language in justice to him, althoug he 1st used the unparliamentary language toward me, which, as I repeat, I regarded as no offense.