Mr. DOOLITTLE. He has charge of the schools in Louisiana. He is a Gentfrom . Philadelphia, I believe. Mr. Curry says: " It maynot be amiss to make some suggestions and statementsin reterence to the condition of public sentiment in tholutebelligerentse ction. The strangest misapprehension seems to prevail at the North. Good men have ccrtainly been misled."Some of the testimony before the reconstruction committee asreportedin the newspapers is the Grossest eurricature of southern opinion and purposes. They have been imposed upon. How is a mystery to me. The representations of the desires and purgoses of the ex rebels, socalled, I are so absurd and ridiculous as to be impossible of refutation. Except by putting the whole people pn the stand to prove a negative. I was a secessionist, for awhile it member of the confederatecongress, and afterward in the army on the stat!"of generals, or in command of a reiment. It would be merest affectation to pretend that I was not somewhat prominent as it secessionist. Having laid the predicate for my competency, I desire to aver. as it gentleman and Christian I hope, that With large personal intercourse With the people and those who are suspectedof rebel intentious, I. never heard (of course since the surrender) of any conspiracy or movement or society or purpose, secret or public, present or prospective, to overthrow the U.S. Government, to resist its authorpy, to reenslzivethe negroes, or i nany manner to diet“? the relations that now exist between the southern States:is constituent elements of the Federal government and that Government, until I read of such intentions recently in northern newspn rrs. Wit perfectcertainty as to the truth of my a rmation, I can state that there is not a sanenor sober man in Alabama who believes or expects that African sla very will be reestablished.As unnlternble facts.t ho people acceptthe abolitionof slavery, the extinction of the right of secession, and the supremacyof the Federal Government. it is as idle. nthous iudtimes moreso, tospetik of another contemplated southern resistanceto Federal authorityns to anticipate the overthrow ot the British Governmentby the Famous." I cite this in connection with what I believe to be true, that the newspapers of the northern States this day, by their correspondents all through the South, to a very considerable extent, misrepresent the true condition of affairs. The recent action of the State of Georgia, and of other States, in relation to the civil rights of the negroes, tends to show that the public sentiment of those States is not, an it has been sometimes represented, to murder and crush and destroy them, but it is to employ them in the production of what is necessary to the growth of the States of the South and to the happiness of the people of all classes. While undoubtedly there exist very mat abuses, and, it would be impossible that it should be otherwise after such a war, and all the anarchy that follows it, yet I do sincerely believe, and I think the honorable committee of 15, when they come to look the whole case over, will come to the conclusion in the end, that considerin all these things, the people of the South have made as rapid advance as could have been reasonably expected alter such a gigantic war. Mr. President, I have occupied alonger time than I intended when I rose. I have stated, very briefly, the purpose I had, hoping that if this measure should not be carried we may agree upon a measure substantially protecting all the rights of the freedmen of the South, and directly and positively, and following the very language of the constitution enforcing the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery throughout all the States.