Mr. WILSON. General Terry is in command of the Dept of Virginia, and Virginia is under martial law, and General Terry, as commander in that State, seeing that the vagrant laws of thatState wereused to make slaves of men whom we have made free, issued a positive order forbidding the execution of the vagrat laws on that population. I thank General 5thDryfor that order. In NCarolina 2 men were sold into slavery for years under the vagrant laws, and a military commander in that State interposed, forbade the execution of the sentence, and secured their liberty. GenlGrant on the 12th day of January issued this order, doubtless with the approval of the POTUS and the SecyWar, as it certainly has the approval of the people of the whole country: “Military division and Dept commanders, whose commands embraceor are composed of any of the late rebellious States, and who have not already done so, will at once issue and enforce orders protecting colored persons from prosecution in any of said States charged With offenses for which white persons are not punished in the same manner and degree.” So unjust, so wicked, so incompatible are these new black laws of the rebel States, made in defiance of the expressed will of the nation, that Lieutenant GenlGrant has been forced to issue that order which sets aside the black laws of all these rebellious States against the freedmen, and allows no law to be enforced against them that is not enforced equally against wiite men. I thank, and I am sure the Senate and the country will thank, the illustrious commander of our armies for commanding the officers of military divisions and Depts to issue at once and enforce orders protecting colored persons from prosecution under these inhuman and unchristian enactments. This order issued by GenlGrant will be repected, obeyed, and enforced in the rebel States with the military power of the nation. Southern legislators an people must learn, if they are comelled to learn y the ba outs of the Army of the U.S., that ta civil rights of the freedmen must be and shall be respected; that these freedmen are as free as their late masters; that they shall live under the same laws, be tried for their violation in the same manner, and if found guilty punished in the same manner and degree. This measure iscal edfor because these reconstructed Legislatures, in defiance of the rights of the freedmen and the will of the nation embodied in the amendment to the constitution, have enacted laws nearly as iniquitous as the old slave codes that darkened the legislation of other days. The needs of more than 4 milion colored men imperatively call for its enactment. The constitution authorizes and the national will demands it. By a series oflegis lative acts, by executive proclamations by military orders, and by the adoption of the amendment to the constitution by the people of the U.S., the gi ntic system of human slave that darken? the land, controlled the policy and swayed the destinies of the Republic, as forever perished. Step by step we have marched right on from one victory to another with the music of broken fetters ring in in our ears. None of the series of acts in this beneficentlegislation of Congress, none of the proclamations of the Executive, none of these military orders protecting rights secured by law will ever be revoked or amended by the voice of the American people. There is now “ Noslave beneaththat starry flag. The emblemof the free.” By the will of the nation freedom and free institutions for all, chains and fetters for none, are forever incorporated in the fundamental law of regenerate and united America. Slave codes and auction blocks, chains and fetters and bloodhounds are things of the net, and the chattel stands forth a man with the rights and the powers of the free men. For the better security of these newborn civil rights we are now about to pass the greatest and the grandest act in this series of acts that have emancipated a race and disenthralled a nation. It will pass, itwill go upon the statutebook of the Republic by the voice of the American peeple, and there it will remain. From the verdict of Congress in favor of this great measure no a peal will gver be entertained by the people of a U.S.