Mr. CONNESS. In connection with this subject I desire to say that I had a Richmond paperon my desk a few days past, which I iave sought to obtain again. but do not (ind, which contained an article directly connected with this subject. It. consisted of a brutal attack upon the Union men of Virginia, the Union men who were Virginians residing now Within Virginia; and the article appeared to have been instigated by this petition sent from Stannton to Congress asking for )iotcction. I think the article had an indicative heading such as “cowards and recreants, ” or something to that effect. It denounced those men as cowards and recreants, and warned them to leave the State; plainly told them they would not be permitted to stay there, and that they had better et ready to go as soon as the blue coats should leave, meaning the soldiers of the U.S. who were then left in the State of Virginia. There is no doubt in the world that there is a settled purpose there to drive from the State of Virginia the loyal Virginians who are now living there. I have now in my possession a copy of the Richmond examiner, I think, in which the grand jurors who recently sat at Norfolk and indicted Mr. Davis for the crime of treason are taken up, one by one, and discussed and denounced, threatened, attacked in the most bitter manner, their lives misre presented, their characters misrepresente, and Virginians warned not to associate with them nor to have contact with them and not to deal with those of them who are in business. In that connection the gentleman now holding the othee of collector of the port of Richmond was denounced because 2 persons in his employ were summoned as witnesses or jurors I forget now which which witnesses or jurors were soldiers in the Union Army, and one at least of whom was imprisoned in the rebel prisons 8 months. he collector is denounced in this papery because he darts to keep in his employment 2 loyal soldiers who have given themselves to the nion cause. I feel that as attention has new again been directed to this case, the matter should not pass without adding this statement, calling the attention of the Senate and the country a sin to the deliberate purpose of the rebels, In on and egged on by the rebel press of Virginia, to drive from their midst every loyal man in the State. I hope it will be found consistent with public duty, and with a proper exercise of power on the part of the executive Dept of this Government, to see that ese men shall not be abandoned, but that treason shall be suppressed in its fiendish utterances against these loyal men.