Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I do not know what are the sources of information from which the Senfrom Connecticut derives the statements which he asks the Senate to believe. I believe from sources of information which I regard as equally entitled to credit with those to which he has referred, that there is not at the Present time anything like ade quate protection to Unionists in the rebel States, and especially to the black part of those Unionists. It is only a few days since I had a conversation with a very intelligent Gentfrom Texas, who had been stationed there for some time past, and was acting as an officer of the Freedmen's Bureau, a man of excellent character and reputation, as honest and as observant a man as you will ordinarily find; and he told me that within the last year in the State of Texas there had been undoubtedly in his opinion and from the best information which he could derive, being on the spot, not less than 1500 deliberate murders committed by exrebels, guerrillas, and that class of ruffians, and that not one single case had yet transpired of the arrest and trial of one of those offenders. Men, black and white, in that State are found murdered; they lie in their gore by the wayside, and in the thickets, and in other nooks and corners of the country, where their bodies are thrown, and sometimes it happens that very little care is taken to conceal the bodies; and there is no such thing in Texas today as criminal justice. Murder and manslaughter are committed there with impunity all over the State, while petty offenses against property, are prosecuted and persons sometimes brought to justice. There are none, says the old saying, “so blind as those who win. see;” and it some times happens to politicians to be willfully blind to facts which they might ascertain if the would give them their candid attention. assert that in the main the reports which we obtain from the southern States in regard to the non-execution of the criminal laws and in regard to the turbulence and disorder and anarchy which prevail there are correct and deserving of the attention of every man who loves his country, and of every man who has a proper observance of law and order; and I hold it to be our duty as a Government to see to it at the earliest practicable day that crime in the rebel States is punished, and that the power of this Government for protection and security shall be exerted and felt by the turbulent and disorderly hordes who now create so much disturbance in those States.