Mr. SUMNER. I am coming to that. After signing himself “yours for humanity, ” he says, “ of course you will not allow my name to be known; it would be as much as my life is worth;” and Senators ask us to give the name of writers in that unhappy condition. Sir, I was here in the old days of Kansas, and I remember when the cruel slave masters of that time smiled over what they called the “freedom shriekers of Kansas;” smiled over all the evidence that we introduced day by day of the terrible atrocities that were there perpetrated; and Senators now in similar. when all these horrors are brought before them and they ask for the name of the writer, knowing well, as they must, that giving the name of the writer is perhaps his death warrant. That is the case. You cannot give the name of the writer who communicates these terrible tidings. There is such a condition of things, such a lawlessness, such an absolute recklessness of human life, that people cannot tell the truth with regard to the actual condition of things there without paying for it a terrible penalty. I hope Senators will not ask for names when the asking the question may involve a terrible sacrifice. But Senators may say that then the letters should not be read, that the authority should not be introduced. Why, sir, I heard that more than ten years ago with regard to Kansas. Does anyone doubt now that all the statements we then made with regard to Kansas, that all that bloody record was true to the letter? History is now making another fearful record with regard to these rebel States, and I entreat you Senators and my colleagues here in public duty, to listen kindly and attentively to all this news and to apply yourselves directly, and generously throw over these people all the protection possible. But now, to give a practical application of these remarks into which I have been betrayed unexpectedly, I must again call your attention to that bankrupt act which proposes to confer certain benefits on persons who have been in the rebellion, and in this way give them an undeserved advantage over good Union people, black and white. I regret infinitely that feature of the bill. I sought to have it changed. I wish now that I could have another opportunity of voting on that question even if the Senate should vote me down. I see the impatience of the Senfrom Vermont, [Mr. PolAND] He says, “Why, they would'vote you down.” The Senator is comparatively new in the Senate. I have been accustomed to be voted down. When I brought forward in this body the motions for the repeal of the fugitive slave act, for emancipation, for human rights, again and again was I voted down; again and again was I in a very small minority; and yet that cause has prevailed. Vote me down if you please; let the Senfrom Vermont vote against me if he pleases; but still I shall not miss any opportunity to sustain the cause which I believe is the great cause of Human Rights and of this Republic.