The Speaker. The pending question is upon the call for the previous question upon a preamble and resolution submitted.on ast Monday by the Gentfrom Maine, [Mr. PERHAM] action upon which was suspended by the close of the morning hour. The resolution was read, as follows: WhereasCaptain John E. Bryant. recently of the county of Oxford, in the State of Maipe. was. a few weekssince, brutally assaulted and his litegreatly endangered in the streetsof Augusta, Georgia, by a citizen of that tnte, because as is reported, of the effortsthe said ryant had madeforthe elevation of the colored people of that State and the part he bore in a movement to decorateWilli flowersthe graves of the soldiers who fell in the deteuso of the Union cause; and whereas it is reported that Captain C. 0. Richardson, of the same county;of Oxford, was. on the 12th instant, attackedat T omnsvillc Georgia, by aman named Litt'htfoot.by whom be ad been orderedto leave the‘lown.andsliotthrough the neck and hand; and whereas both of these gentlemen served the country with distinguished pbility and bravery during the war and are now entitled to the protection due to American citizens in the State of Georgia, whichthey assistedin savingto the country by their valor and in which they are attempting to establishthemselvesin the practiceof their profession and maketheir future homes; and whereassimilar casesto those recitednbove are understood to be of frequent occurrencein the States lately in rebellion. thusrendering it oxtreuielyhazardousfor northernmento attempt to settle there: and whereas the Richmond Examiner, a paper published in llirli mond, Virginia, and receiving the patronage of the Administration. being one of the papersdesignated to publish the laws of Congress, in its issueot May 4.1866, used the following language: “Tm: Sriniiut or COWARDS. NObetter proof of the dastardly nature of the ‘luynlists' could be found than their evidenttrepidationwhen left withoutproteciln bayonets. We hear a cry of alarm at Staun ton. lie Union men are afraid of their own shad owsif a Federal soldier is not at hand to reassure them. They have guilty consciencesthat 0 press themheavily, and they will not find peacean quiet until the confess and We assure the au or ities at Vashingten that secessionists are not such passesas to expose themselvesto further hardshipsby their own acts and the shriek of cowards at Stunnton is morea call for greater oppression Virginians of the true than for a protection of the lion hearted Unionists. The fact is. that when the blue uniforms are withdrawn the 'loyalists have nobodyto keep tthheemy in countenance, nobody, to associate with and feel very like they had got into the wrun pew. Let them seeke congenial society elsewhere it‘t oydo not like the contempt of the honestand respectable throughout the South. Wcare not likely to payt hem any respectiftbey live among us1,000years.” And whereas the spirit of the foregoing extract appears to predominatein the States referredto, and tFo citizens of those States who continued loyal to t in Governmentduring the war and especially those who servedin the Union Army. are insultingly proscribed and excludedfrom social and political privileges: Therefore., Resolved, That the POTUS he requestedto inform this House whether the personal rights of citizens of the U.S.areat present suibeiently protected in said States, and whether an furtherlegislation is necessaryto clothe him with an eiont authority to protect all the loyal citizens of the States recently in rebellion in the enjoymentof their constitutional rights.