Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, I introdnced the bill now under consideration to meet a pressing need. It was introduced in the interest of humanity and justice. I have examined many and many pages of Official records, records connected ini. the Freedmens Bureau, records 1Of military officers, and letters written bysome of the foremost officers of our armies men who have made their names immortal in the history of the country. The evidence conclusively shows that great atrocities and cruelties are perpetrated upon the freedmen in various sections of the country; that the cor, dumb, toiling millions who look to us or protection are in umanly outru ed. The Senator whi0 has just addressed us questions the testimony adneed here by my colleague yesterday. He mightas wellquestion the massacre at Fort Pillow, and the cruelties perpetrated at andersonville where 83%. of the men who entered the hospitals died; andersonville, where more American soldiers lie buried than fell throughout the Mexican war; where more American soldiers lie buried than were killed in battle of British soldiers in Wellingtons 4 great battles in Spain, and at Waterloo, Alma, nkermanii, and Sebastopol. The Senator might as well question the atrocities of sacked Lawrence and other atrocities committed during the war. If he will go into the Freedmens Bureau and examine and study the official records of officers who for5 or 6 months have taken testimony and have large volumes of sworn facts; if he will go into the office of General Holt and read the reports there, his heart and soul will be made sick at the wrongs man does to his fellow man. No one questions the intelligence and judgment of General Gran the is in communication with the officers of hisAiuiy; but I say here and say what I know, when I declare that nearly every general commanding in the rebel States has written the stron st letters in regard to the tone, tcm er, and isposition of the people and the condition of that country. Some of them go further than my colleague went yesterday. There are letters in the Senate Chamber today, written by commanders in States and in whole sections of countrymen whose name and fame are worldwidewhich, if read by the Senator would more than convince him of the truth of the testimony adduced. It makes the heart sick to dwell on such records of crime and wanton brutality.