Mr. SUMNER. I do not wish to take up time either, but I do not regard the issue to which the Senator refers as a side issue; it is an issue of substance; it is one of the pivots of the bill. However, I do not wish now to debate it, and I should not say another word but for the remarks that have fallen from the Senfrom Connecticut and also the Senfrom Wisconsin. They have introduced letters from the rebel States undertaking to gloss over and the Senators will pardon me the exPression to whitewash the unhappy condition of things there. They are able to show what I would call a sporadic case of justice, the standing rule throughout that unhappy region is injustice. A Senator near me [Mr. HowARD] asks me yery properly, do I call it justice when a man is sentenced to 5 years in the penitentiary who shot another man down. That is the jus tice which the Senfrom Connecticut or the Senfrom Wisconsin–I forget which it was introduced and quoted as an example of the heavenly condition of things in that country. Sir, the evidence from every quarter of that country, from every State and every part of every State, all tends in one direction; it is that there is something like anarchy and chaos there, that misrule prevails, cruelty, harshness, wrong of all kinds. The whole region is now little better than a whited sepulchre full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness; and the Senfrom Connecticut comes here to to the whitening, to white over this sepul Clare. Because I have introduced letters sometimes without giving the names of the writers the Senator calls them anonymous; or at any rate says that to him they are anonymous. Well, what he reads in the newspapers is anonymous; the statements that fill the newspapers are anonymous. Is he prepared not to.the terrible tidings that come to us every day? Those tidings are always anonymous. One aggravation of the case is that we cannot give the names of these writers without endangering their lives. Since the Senator has been on his feet, in running over my morning letters which are now on the desk before me, I have come upon one with regard to a recent terrible outrage in Georgia, and the writer, after sign.ing himself “Yours, for humanity, ” says at the end