Mr. DOOLITTLE. I shall not detain the Senate from a vote, and I rose simply to say that I have no doubt there are disorders existing in some of the States of the South, and undoubtedly in the State of Texas the disor. ders do not exist to any such extent as is stated or feared or apprehended by the honorable Senfrom Michigan. I hold in my hand a letter and I read no anonymous letters to this Senate or elsewhere as any authority for a statement that I make a letter signed by a Gentfrom the State of Wisconsin who was an officer in the Federal Army, and who has lately removed to the State of Texas and taken up his residence at LaGrange, in that State: it is Mr. Willard, formerly of the State of Wisconsin. Mr. Willard writes to me under date of 22d of January last: T.A GRANGE, Texas, January 22, 1867. SIR:, ".. I left Washington in June last with my family and have resided here ever since. I have ample means of knowing the position of the people to the Government, as I and., ttaralkveedledfrtahnrkoluyghwniteharlmy aenvyerwyh Southern State participants on the southern side of the war. They were fairly defeated and frankly acknowlege it, and never has a brave and generous people beenso vilified and slanderedas have the people of the southern States, and never in the history of any civilized Government has a fallen foe been treated as has this. I camehere to the people as a northern man and late an officer in the Federal Army. I beentreatedwith courtesy and uniform kindness heav veer since I have been in during the State by those who were the war the most ardent supporters of the confederate government. This was for many years the homeof Jack Hamilton, who publicly declareson the stump at the North that a loyal citizen's life is not safe in any communityin Texas. It is a fact well known in this communitythat Hamilton broughthere from Alabama afreenegrowomanwhen he 1st came into the State and held her as a compelledby slave until he was the court of this district to liberate her. This factcanbesubstantiatedby the personalfriends of Hamilton, and who do not pretend to make any apologiesfor his licentiouscourse aas private citizen. With oneaccord it is generally acknowledged that he has no character to lose. Yet this man is put before the people of the North to instruct them as to the political status of the people of this State: a man who is coamnmouuntcitayst from respectablesociety and an honest because of his immoral and dishonestlife as a man. Free speech is as, much tolerated as in Wisconsin today, and as goodand law abiding people as those in Racine county.." Let me mention, one, fact within my personal knowledge, in regard to justice as dealt out to negro the in this State. At the sitting of the district court here in November, a young man about 22 years of age was arraigned and tried for the shootingandkilling of a negro. The factswerethese: the negrowas at work in a cotton field for Jones, who had formerly owned the negro. Some dispute arose between the negro and Jones, when Jones called his son, Robert, who settled the difficulty by shootingthe negro. Robert wasarraigned and tried by a jury of 12 citizens, all of whomhad formerly beenslave ownersand supporters of the war; he was defendedby the best legal counsel in this part of State; the the judge, a firm believer in the divine institution of slavery, charged the jury to find according to evidence. The jury returned a yerdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for 5 years. Robert was a son of one of tial menin this community. the most influen.. " With regards, &c., to yourself andfamily, I amyour t, obedient servant, C. D. WILLARD. Now, sir, here is a young man from the State of Wisconsin, an officer of the Army, who states on his own personal knowledge the facts in relation to the arraigning, trial, and conviction of a son of one of the most influential men in Texas, in the very home of this Jack Hamilton, who he says is sent to the people of the North to declare that a Union man cannot live in the State of Texas. He was tried by a jury of slaveholders, and under the charge of the judge of the district, convicted and sent to the peni tentiary for this offense.Mr. President, I do not allude to this by way of saying that there are no outrages in Texas. I only say that the honorable Senfrom Michigan has not taken all the testimony on this subject in relation to the condition of affairs there. I will state another thing. I was in Louisi ana and Texas myself last fall, and from information which I received