Mr. DIXON. The Senator partially misunderstood what I said. I did not say there were no postmasters there; the PostMGenl does not say that. He says there is a difficulty in finding properparties to appoint. There are ostmasteis in teStates lately in rebellion. but there are not as many of them as could be wished. There ought to be apost office in every village, and I trust the time will soon come when there will be. There are many postoffices and many postmasters, loyal men, there; but. there are Wide districts of country where there are no postoffices and no postmasters, and what then is done? They sentheir letters by private individuals, when stamped, to the nearest postoffice. I presume sometimes they have to go 50 miles, sometimes 20 sometimes less, to the nearest ostOffice; but thelettermust be stamped, and i they cannotfind any place where stam s can be purchased what can they do? The etter cannot be sent. The Senfrom Nevada says, if the Senfrom NewHampshire will permit me to go on, that moneyed men can come forward if they see fit and advance the mone for these stamps. What interest have moneye men there or here in doing that? They receive no compensation for it. Business men, it is true, who have other business, retailers, will sometimes keeppostage stain s on hand, and advance the money for them. but the difficult is, that in these States there is less money t n loyalty. v The are not only in some cases disloyal, but in all cases they are poor. There are but very few men there who could adrance this money, for the money is not there. Now, as to their loyalty, I think a man may be loyal and true to the Government at this time who cannot take the required oath. That is myjudgment. I think I could name individuals who, as the Senator himself would a rec, are now loyal men, but who cannot take te retrospective oath that they have never taken any part in the rebellion against the Government. Nearly all the people of the South have directly or indie rectla aided the rebellion at some time or other, and hence they cannot take this oath which is retros ective in its character. As stated before, the object of this bill is not to benefit anyone class of the community; it is to benefit the business of the whole count. I claim that it is as much for the benefit of the North as for the benefit of the South. A letter is written from the North; it goes to a correspondent in the South, in Mobile for example; a reply cannot be forwarded unless a postage stamp can be obtained; I have no doubt they can be obtained in the city of Mobile, because there probably men can be found who retail other artieles who will sellpostage slam s, and I believe there is a postmaster at Mobi e: but as I said before, there are wide districts of country where there are very great dilliculties in obtaining them, and the object of this billis solely to allow men to be the keepers of stuni 5 who can furnish good securit that they Will pay for them, who have not. e cash on hand to pay for them, and who cannottake the retro spective test oath. I think, therefore, the public interest requires the passage of the bill.