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believing that he would do any thing of the kind; but he had to say that the statement that he sent such a despatch was totally unfounded.
He would not pretend to deny all the charges made against him in the papers.
He had attempted it once, but found the charge reiterated in the same journal the second day after he had expressly denied it. He would say however, now that the statement that he had telegraphed Mr. Jefferson Davis, or written him, that Kentucky would furnish him with seven thousand armed men, was, like other charges, totally false.
And he had been informed by the governor of Kentucky that the charge in respect to him was equally false.
Mr. Lane then proceeded to defend the suppression of certain traitorous newspapers, disarming the people in rebellion, and other acts which the senator from Kentucky deemed to be unconstitutional.
Allusion had been made to the compromise of last session, but he would only say that none was made, because of traitors who occupied the now vacant seats.
All they asked now was the Kentucky remedy for treason — hemp.
On motion of Mr. Wilson, the subject was postponed till Thursday.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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