Mr. NYE. Mr. Pres1dent. perhaps I attach too much importance to this bill, butI am frank to confess that the importance I attach to it is not so much upon the face of the measure as upon its result. I deem it the duty of every Dept of this Government, when looking around for persons to discharge official duties pertaining to it, to find, if possible, loyal men. I deny the proposition that there is not to be found in every community in the southern States some man fit to hold the Office of postmaster whose pulse has not beaten every moment since the rebellidn broke out in unison with its interests. The difficultyis that we have only here tofore been allowed when speaking of the South to speak of the ruling classes, and the South, when they spoke of themselves, only spoke of the ruling classes. It is the duty of this Government to let up a class of men who have been trodden down under the iron heel of the rulers of the South. There are 1,000s of them in every State. Every Dept in this city is full of men exiled from their homes by the class of men who now want credit on postage stamps, who could go back there clothed with the garments of official power and have around them the shield and the halo of Government protection. But, sir, they are allowed to fam ish here upon little salaries, exiled from their homes and from their fortunes, and the Dept here look around among the class whose hands are reddened with the bloodof loyalty, and say they cannot find men to act as postmasters there who can take the oath. Sir, they cannot find them among that class who instigated and carried on therehcllion. I trust in God the day will never come when one of that class can take an oath that will entitle him to hold an Office under this Government. Sir, if we would preserve it intact, if we would keep the serpent out r bosom that has stung us wellni h unto death, we must let the class of men who cannot take this oath alone; we must go among the poor of the South, among the freebornwhites of the South. ignorant as they are, ever inspiration of their Iieart, and every prayer from their lips, has been for the preservation of this Unio and nothing ever gladdened their hearts so ch as to see the old stars and stripes take the place of that mon grel substitute which these men who cannot take the oath reared over them. The time has come when this Government, in its legislative and executive Depts, should lift up the bowed down and heal these breaches by the panacea of true Unionism. I object, therefore, to this special legislation in favor of that class who come u here self convicted, acknowledging their ina ility, without saying, “Wc are no longer worthy to be called thy sons, ” but who now want what they have always sought after, the official pap of this Government. Sir, go through Alabama, and you can find men capable of being postmasters over where. Alabama furnished 15,000 mon to the Union Army. Where are they with their wounds and sciirs which testify to their undlyin loyalty? They could be postmasters, to e it. Go to Tennessee; go to Georgia; go to Florida, and everywhere you will find men scarred in the battles for this Union, who would be glad to get a postmastership. Give it to them