Mr. DIXON. I made no charge against the Senator. I stated the fact that he read these letters to the Senate. I did not object to it. I said that was the testimony which we were called to consider. I do not want the names of the writers. I do not desire them to be published. But the Senator makes a direct charge against me. He.Ihave attempted to gloss over or whitewash, to use a favorite term of his, the existing state of things at the South. What does the Senator charge? What is the statement which has been made on this floor frequently during this session, 1st by the other Senfrom Massachusetts [Mr. WILson] early in the session, then by his colleague, then again by the Senfrom Michigan, [Mr. owARD] and repeated here today? Why it is, to use the exPressive language of the Senfrom Mojo. [Mr. SUMNER] himself, that the whole South is one mass of corruption; that it is like a whited sepulchre; and ‘the other Senfrom Massachusetts in his graphic description would have us believe that the midnight skies were lurid with the flames of burning school houses in a country where we have been told for years there were no school houses. No doubt, sir, there may have been school houses burned. I do not think there have been many; nor do I think they have been burned by any class of people who can be called the respectable people of the South for there are some respectable people there. There are wandering vagabonds and worthless bad men at the South as well as with us in the North, and they no doubt commit crime. I never have denied it; I have never attempted to conceal it; and I believe it to day. But when it is said that the whole southern country is filled with men of this kind; when it is said that northern people cannot go there with safety; when it is said that Union men cannot exPress their sentiments there with safety; when it is said that the whole race of colored people are treated with cruelty and opPression at the South, then I take the liberty to say that I do not believe the assertion, that the testimony does not prove it. The Senator reminded me in what he said of the testimony of GenlGrant one year ago on this subject. Here it is before me. What did he say of the condition of the South? He had traveled there; he went there for the very purpose of giving his information. Did GenlGrant say that such a condition of things existed one year ago in the southern country?