Mr. JOHNSON. So I understand. All I have to say, and I think I have a right to say, and I do not think my colleague will deny it, is, that however true it may be that there are such combinations in that part of the State or anywhere else, there is s)irit enough and patriotism enough and loyalty enough in the rest of the State to keep them in order. It is not the 1st time that efforts have been made to drive the free blacks out. of the State. There was a propOsition made in the Legislature, when I was not a member of it, by a Gentfrom the Eastern Shore, whose name is familiar no doubt to m collea no, to exile them from the State; an at the instance particular] of the freedmen in Baltimore, numbering t on sands, I, with others, took a very active part to prevent it, and succeeded in defeating it. There was just as much violence in point of feeling then as now. But as to these actual acts of outrage, I have seen in the papers cases of most cruel outrages, iftrne, stated as being committed by black soldiersin the southern States, women outraged to the last degree of outrage; 3 or 4 black soldiers hung for an outrage of that description; agentlemans house visited by negroes, and himself murdered and his wife and children treated in a way that I forbear tomention, and so through all the States. You cannot guard against these Outrages every where and upon all occasions. There will be wickedness as long as the world lasts, upon the part of men, unless their natures are entirely changed. I should be very sorry to believe that there is any part of the State of Maryland where the rights of anybody, if brought before the courts of jnstiee, will not be vindicated. I differ from my colleague. I do not know the extent of the feeling to which he adverts, but I think I know the gentlemen of the Eastern Shore, and however great may have been their sympathies with the rebellion, (and toacertain extent, no doubt, those sympathies were great) I think they would not for a moment hesitate to comply with the obligation of any oath they might take to try fairly a case of that description. That they were wrong in their sympathies nobody is more satisfied than I am, and I should suppose the result of the struggle has proved to them that they were wrong from the beginning. I have been in the habit of associating with those of them who were considered gentlemen before the war, and so has my honorable colleague, and I can say that I never knew a morelion orable set of men in my life anywhere, except among the lower classes, men who have lost all their manhood men who have forgotten all their obligations to lhcir State and to themselves. I should be exceedingly unwilling to believe that there was any such real disaffection in any part of the State of Maryland as would make those who had been gentlemen and men of honor before so recreant to duty as to forget all the obligations of truth and honesty.