Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, since the Senfrom Kentucky rose, 1 have cut out of nvpapera portion of a speech made by Colonel Thomasson, now at the head of the Freedmens Bureau, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was formerly, I believe, a member of the HoRep from Kentucky. Colonel Thomasson says in his speech: It is said that there is no necessityfor the bureau in Kentucky. Our Senatorsin Congresshaveasserted that all the rights of the freedmenare protected by the State laws. Now. My positionenableswe to know that neither General Palmers letter to the Journal nor General Fisks speech in Cincinnati, has told more than a fraction of what is true on that subject and that our statute laws do not protect colored people." Now, Mr. President, I have simply to say in regard to General Fisk, that he is a gentleman of talent and character, afihristian man, whose word will go further in this nation than the assertions of every rebel sympathizer in Kentucky. As to General Palmer, the country knows that he is an eminent citizen of Illinois, a native of Kentucky, a man of capacity and of high character, a man who knows what is going on in that State. Sir, there is one thing that cannot be argued down, and that is the testimony taken by the military tribunals in Kentucky during the past 3 years. The evidence given in those tribunals would shock the humanity of this nation if presented to the people. 100s of cases of the grossest and wiclredest outrages erpe trated upon colored men in Kentucky during the last 3 years have been passed upon before those military tribunals, the testimony taken and the verdict of those tribunals remdered and many a man in Kentucky has been punished by those courts for those outrages. have personally conversed with General Palmer, General Fisk, General Burbridge, and General Brisbin, and with other officers serving in Kentucky in regard to these outrages perpetrated upon men, and upon women, too, in that State. The Senate certainly cannot have forgotten the statement made by the Senfrom Ohio [Mr. W sns] a few months a o in this body of what he himself saw in Kentuc y of the outra esperpetrated upon men, women, and children there nor can they have forgotten the statement may of the other day by one of the Representatives of Kentucky in rerd to some of the recent transactions in that.tate. I am not one of those who would arraign the whole people of the State for these offenses. I do not say that they have not laws which, if executed, would protect the colored people; but returned rebel soldiers, and men in that State at any rate who prove by their conduct that the are ready to commit any outrage of cruelty an offense, have been engaged in these acts; the have been frequently arrested and tried, an often punished. I venture to say that many men are under arrest today in Kentucky for these crimes, and murders and outrages in numerable have been committed there, as have been committed in all that region of country.