Mr. JOHNSON. As I stated when the motion to adjourn was made, Irose merely for the purpose of setting right the State which I in part represent, or that section of the State which was supposed to have been so insubor dinate as to render it necessary to apply this law to Maryland. M friend and collea uc received information that a great outraged been perpetrated in a portion of Maryland which showed the necessity of having this bill operate in that State, and it was at his instance in part that the bill as it originally was drafted by the honorable member from Illinois, which as I think was confined toStates that had been in rebellion, was extended so as to apply to all the States of the Union, and of course to Maryland. I hold in my hand a letter received this mornin from 2 of the members of the Senate of Maryland now in session at Annap olis, from the 2 counties in one of which it disapproved of the gubernatorial position and vthe suppose is up sed the supposed outrage existed, and in hot of which it was supposed that combi nations existed to interfere with the rights of. the freedmen. I read, merely for the purpose of justifying that portion of my constituents, wh“at they say: These facts as we have learned them from uiiquestionnble Union sources. we use the term I mon sources in a party sense. are substantially as follows: the colored man, John Mills. referred to in Murrays letter" The Senate will remember that my colleague said that a colored man named John Mills had been ruthlessly murdered by a rebel soldier “ the colored man. John Mills, and a number of other persons, white and black, were assembled in adrink "It! shop in Worcester copnty. near the Virginialinc. The no proMills, and n. Virginian. who is reported as having cen in the rebel arm. got into a drunken broil and bnth. Armed with elu s. fought. During the me ie cthenetro JohnMills received a blowon the head from the hand of his nntagonist. from the effects of which he subsequently(HOt. The civil authorities of Worcester county. as we have been informed. have used every means in their powerto securethe nrrest of tbeizuilty party. Whose fiig tto Virginia. beyondtheir reach. alone preventedits consummation.” and in relation to the ability of the State to protect all within her borders, the Senate Will permit me to call their attention for a moment to what was said yesterday by the present Governor of Maryland, a man thoroughly loyal, elected because of his supposed ultraloyalism, in answer to the presentation to himof the proceedings of a convention of Union men in the city of Baltimore: o "He pointed out to the committeethat they had failed to so port his position regarding negro suffrage. On this contrary. byindorsing Mr. Pilkington. the only Union memberof the Assembly who opposed the Governors message. The convention hails ccminzly M uicscedin the extreme radical party. who. like Mr. Pilkinglon. were urgin their views upon the people of the State. lie also t iought that the indorsement of Mr. Crcsivells vote in favor of the Freedmens Bureau bill in Congresswas disparaging to a Governor of a loyal State. For himself he did not want the aid of the U.S. through this bureau, to guaranty in Maryland the negroiill protectipn of person and property: and if need be waswilling to in voke the whole powerof the State to this end; but he considered himself, as Governor of Maryland, fully qualified to executethe dutiesof his office. Hewished to be clearly understoodthat he was not in favor of thrusting negro mirage upon the State.” " and could neve indorsethe courseof Mr. Crcswcll in his attempt to introduce the Federal authority into Maryland or any other loyal State, for the purpose of protecting the freedmen in their rights of person or property.” I have thought it my duty, Mr. President, to call the attention of the Senate, and all that portion of the count who may feel an interest in the present conditioniof the State of Maryland, to what I have just presented to the Senate coming from 2 loyal men, members of the Senate immediately from the locality where the supposed outrage was committed and combination was said to exist, and coming from the Governor who has recently been elected by a very decided vote, and elected by a vote confined, under the law of Maryland to those who have been loyal throu boat. I am now if possible, more satisfied t anI was before that there is no more necessity of applying this law to the State of Maryland than there is to the State of Maine or the State of Massachusetts.