The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-10-10
FROM "SMOKY EIELL.o

EDITOR UNION should be wanting in
all the finer emotions Of true manliness
insulting to you and your intelligent reld
ers, were to notice at length the dirty
low, vulgar contents of the last number OF
the Kansas Frontier 1t was not my in
teLtion, MIR. Editor, to ask the further
indulgence Of your columns, but as that
ce,y decent correspondent, as" has missed
his target, l must beg reply through your
paper, and ask him to fire again.
As he and his pal has indirectly charged
that the article from Smoky Hili' ema-
mated from your Office, will simply say,
in the language Of \. Ward, "tha air
lires.' "Smoky Hill," as You well know,
Mr.. Editor, is peaceable, quiet, indus
trious individual My humble cottage,
Ca log one.) is several miles from your
young city; and if the i" intelligent cor
respondent" will agree to leave off rot for a
few days, l may deign to ask him over,
believing few lessons on common dccency
would be useful to him.
l see but little worthy of note in the
"speciai's" reply-it is slaugy rehash of
the first, wanting both sense and point.
After admitting that he is in the habit
of frequenting "brothels and low places
generally" he says that Smoky Hill does
not pretend to refute the charge that the
delegates were all packed" &c. Had |
been delegate, or had | thought any anti
disaffected man in our county would have
believed it, knowing the source from which
it emanated, should very likely have
refuted it. But having known the cores
pondent for a number of years-knowing
he possesses an expansive Imagination
and considering the medium through which
it reached the people, thought it would
be waste of words to deny that which
every delegate in the Convention knew was
false. | know that the "conclaye" you
allude to was opposed to at least one half
the nominees on the ticket-but .your men
were defeated, and Of course the Conven-
tion was "packed." The textbook you
alude to on "skulduggery" would be a
failure, as you already have one in the
market; but | think one on "num mbskul-
lery" would take among your clique In
alluding to Diogenes and his tub, you COM
pliment pe, sir. Wish | could say the
same of you-knowing he employed none
but honest men.
You deny that you abused the present
Administration previous to the first of
September. 1 repeat it. Did you not,
upon learning that certain men in our
State were to be removed, now holding
lucrative Government appointments-men
who declared boldly that if they were re-
moved by Lincoln, they would be re-insta-
ted by Jeff Davis 10 less than six months
say, that if that was to be the policy of the
Black Republican administration you
would oppose it? that ga Government
by such men ought not to be
by Democrats" that you would
oppose men enlisting? That you did op
pose their enlisting in this county to fight
for their country and freedom, every person
in this mel ghborhood knows to be facts.
MIR. S, you are, perhaps, as we'll known
and as little respected in your county as
any man of my acquaintance. You possess
both the qualities of the dove and the
friendship, but practicing
deceit.
1t is generally understood that you lave
been furnishing brains for the Frontier for
he last three months-that you are inter-
.sted in the concern and yet you said
before and after Geary's nomination, that
something must be done to defeat him
would be burning disgrace to our coun-
y If he should be elected" &c. None will
lispute with you on that point. Again
How is it you are urging certain iudepend- J