Mr. WILSON. I am anxious to take the vote on this bill, and I do not propose now to take up much time; but the Senfrom Connecticut, in replying to the remarks of my colleague, has seen fit to comment on some remarks of mine made on another occasion. I believe the Senfrom Connecticut has a heart as well as other men; but I say to him hat I have not stated one 5th part of the out rages perpetrated upon loyal men and upon freedmen in the rebel States since the surrender of General Lee; and the evidence of officers of this Government and of other persons entitled to credit of the murders that have been perpetrated there make the number larger than the number of our Army killed on the field of Antietam. The Senator speaks of bringing in letters here; I have brought none; but there was a day when I did bring letters into this body concerning the outrages perpetrated upon citizens in Kansas. There sits a gentleman on this floor today rePresenting that State, from whom we received letters, we dared not give his name to the Senate. There are other men known throughout the country who gave us the facts of the outrages perpetrated in that young Territory in 1856, and we dared not give their names, because it would have periled their lives. Today, sir, officers of this Government in the Army, judges and district attorneys, whose names are known in the country, are writing letters to this Capitol marked “confidential, ” because it would subject them to in sult and outrage to have it known that they dared write the truth. Sir, it is time to put an end to this sneering at the use of letters in regard to these outrages. The letter read this morning will be a passport for the writer in every rebel camp in Texas. It will not be his death warrant; it will subject him to no insult; but every ruffian in Texas will read it with delight, and thank the Senfrom Wisconsin for reading it to the Senate. Now, sir, I have as much confidence in our generals aIs have in the Senator's letter writer. I remember that the gallant Terry was sent away, with his consent I admit, from Virginia, and General Schofield, supposed to be a conservative general, sent down there. Senators know what General Schofield thinks now in regard to the state of affairs in that State. general Sickles' testimony sustains every thing that has been said on the floor of either House as to the condition of affairs in his dept. General Robinson and General Scott General Robinson was in SCarolina; General Scott