Mr. SUMNER. The Senator says it is not changed at all. Very well. I was about to lay that I am notgoing to oppose it, but I wish here again to give notice to the properauthor ities that they must obey the laws of the land, and I wish the PostMGenl of the U.S. to take notice. He is very much misrepresented, or he has not always lent his influence in favor of obedience to the laws of the land. Here on my table are letters, and I received one this morning of an important character, showmg thzit there are at least somethings in the PostOtiiceDeptleadingin the same direction that we have had occasion to criticise in the Treasury Dept through the defection of the latter Dept to the law of the land. For instance I have a letter here from Charleston, SCarohna, where the writer says: “The postoffice is like everything else they do. The most of the employ6s belongedin the rebelarmy. No one else will get anything else to do here. The Presidents proclamation, saying Give the appointmentsto all 10lll southerners wasii regular humbug. If hchad said Give it to all rehch. then it would have been more properly spoken, ibr the latter is invariably the case.” As I said before, I received a letter this morning, which was also from Charleston, from which I have just read. The letter was from a person whose name, if I shouldmentaon it, would not be unknown on this floor, and who has personal relations with a very rorninent memberof the Administration, in which he makes the same complaint, and especially with regard to the postoffice at Charleston, that Union people have no chance; it is rebels only that can find a place under these new nus ices. Here, for instance, is another letterwhic I have received, signed very extensively by gentlemen from Georgia, and also from irginia, from which I will read only a brief extract: “The President, early in his administration. said that no rebel should be appointed to office in the South: and ifloyal men could not be found in sufficientnumbers, then he would import them. “Import them, ” let me remind my friendfrom Connecticut, take them to the place where the office was to be filled and plant them there that was the language of the President, and is so quoted by these gentlemen. They proce“ed: But this is all forgotten now, and Congress is deliberately askedby a Cabinetofficerto repeal the test oath that rebelsmayizot pay for positions which they now fill contrary to law. his is ado liberate bribe for treasonand an insult to loyalty, and hence the common assertion among Union men, that it pays to be a rebel. This is doubtless the fact in Georgia as in Virginia. They get the offices in the revenue depts, as well as in the postofficesand the mail enoenatrrlyacts. asmay be seen by n slight examination. all over the State. lyot many weeks since. 2 loyal men from this district.” This is from Fredericksburg “were up licnnts for mail routes; one had been a scoutin i in Union Army. The route for which this last applied was given to a rebel colonel, and the 1st to a rebel soldier. The assertionthatloyal and capablemen to fill the revenue officesin Georgia cannot be obtained and rebelshave tobe appointed instead is doubtless a cross misrepresentation in the rebe interest, the same falsehood haying been circulated as regardsthis State” That is, Virginia. “Such statementsare an insult to the 10al men of the South, and as such werepel them with indignation and scorn, comefromwhateversourcetheymay.” Here is another letter from a person well known, in reply to the very suggestion that Union people cannot be found to fill these offices: “And among this pile of ruined rubbish we oneein awhile meet with a Union volunteer. There is no mistaking the lant when pure. I found someof the purest in the south I have ever met. No class of Americans have suffered so much and none have had so little encouragement. To be asoutherner by birth and a Union man is to incur the undying hatre of all go"oddlaloyalists. Before closing my letter I will call your attention to Mr. Secret McCullochks report on he employment of men who cannot to c the oath. differfrom Mr. McCulloch in this matter of uppomtmentl in the States lately in rebellion. I do not by hevo there is any [190088]? for employing enemauw 0cannottake the oath. can fil all the offices under the Government at the South by able. Imd talented southern Union soldiers. There are ten in thiseity, and not one f themcan get employment from the Government. here is not aUnion soldier employed in any civil officeunder the Government in this city. whi c it is notorious that many in this city and State are oin ployed who cannot take the oath.” Now, sir, I do not know that the PostMGenl has erred as openly, as defiantly, as wrongly as the SecyTreasury has erred. but according to the testimony of these letters he has failed to exert any decisive influence for loyal men, and I think, now iliat we are about to a this bill, he ought to take no tice that by the law of the land loyal men only are to receive appointments from the Government, and that to the extent of his influence loyal men should be encouraged in the postoffices of the country. I do not know that he has made appointments in defiance of law; but it will not be denied that there are postoffices which are nests of disloyalty.