The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-05-14
REPLY.
CouNcIL Grove, Kan, May 5, 1854.


| GEN. 8. N. WcoD IL can see no pastic
! ular benefit 70 be derived BY contissiul
this epistolary correspondence, in relation
to our respective political positions. Tb'
casual remark threw into business not,
on yesterday to you, in reference to YOU
support Of Gen. Ewing, was simply re-
Iioinder to IN insinuation of your own, writ
ten come days ago, in which you wished te
convey the impression that those who did
not support and swear by you were enemies
of Council Grove and her interests. You
say that "the bitter personal fight you
made last fall against me was because "a.
Anti. Lane" Now, with all due Difference
to superiors in Office, allow me to sueges,
that the assertion is untrue.
The open and avowed Lane men of Nor.
ris county supported you last fall, and il
you mislead them by pledging to them
that your election should not be claimed as
an Anti Lane triumph, and then immed-
lately after election Violated those pledges,
it is not at this time for me to inquire. 1t
was none of my fight, and if i, really was
an au,i-Lane triumph. you must explain
Why you ploughed with tue Lane heifer. /
can't see it.
Again you say, "You will recollect the
kind of persons with whom you are nfilIia-
ting now. They are the most radical negro
suffrage portion of the Republican party"
Now that comes with exceeding bad grace
from you. who owed your election last fall
TO the same men, and from one who. 10 bis
place in the Representative Hall last win
ter, said, "thas personally as Sam Wood
he was in favor Of striking the word white
out of Section l, Article V, of the Consti-
tuition of the State of Kansas, but politi-
cally (as a sbyster I presume you mean }
you was opposed to it," You have forgot
ten, too, General, the message of your pet,
the would be Senator, Gov. Carney, last
winter, on the same point, and the expung-
ing process it underwent after arriving at
Topeka. When your record is as clear As
mine on that question, shall be pleased to
hear from you again, but until then, l
would advise you to not stir it up.
Those letters wrote to Clsrke's Creek
Township, prior to the County Convention,
seem to be an eye sore. Had you made
application to me l would bave cheerfully
furnished you with copies of the letters.
1t would have been more open and manly
course than that of going to young lady.
and cndeavoring to get one from her, in the
absence of her father. They, it is :rue,
said nothing about Carney, Lane, or Ewing,
but only brsathed desire to rebuke you
and your coadjutors in your fraudulent at.
tempt to foist United States Senator upon
the State of Kansas. in violation of prece-
dent and long established usages.
In reference to letters you assert have
written to citizens of Chase county, bad
you have seen any such letters you could
not refuse to bear witness that Gen, Ewi7g's
claims for the United States Senate were
strongly urged Messrs Hunt and Buchan-
Al will testify that invariably in my per-
sonal intercourse with them, have urged
upon the Anti Frauds of this Senatorial
District to take an open position in favor
of Gen. Ewing. Ia conclusion, whatever
Maj Farnsworth or any other person has
claimed for me, is without authority or war
rant from me. am not pledged to Gen.
Lane, or to any other man. have ever
looked upon the Robinson and Lane i'm
broglio as a disgrace to Kansas. 1t has
elevated men to place and power who have
betrayed our interests, and defrauded the
State out of thousands.
And disguise it as you may, that was the
power behind the throne that inaugurated,
and but for the emphatic seal of condemns-
ton that the freemen of kaosas have put
upon the action of the last Legislature,
would have resulted in placing in power
again that hungry set Of corrnorants.
am profoundly thankful for your kind
" advice, and assure that am not Lane,
or anti Lane, neither am I . Carney or
Robinson man. But the sooner those is
sues are ignored, buried and forgotten, and
the voters of Kansas elect men to Office for
their moral worth and integrity, the sooner
will such disgraceful farees as was enacted
By the late Legislature. be forgotten and
remembered as only in the past.
Aud If. as you suggest. in pursuing such
policy, should fall between two fires, it
will be with the proud assurance that l suf-
fered in defense Of right and justice. Aod
now, in reply to your addeDda that, " after
Sam Wood is IS dead as you wish him, he
will have influence enough to kill half 4
dozen Others" excuse me in referring to
an old saying 1 mean no personal ofense)
which runs thus, f" Dead dogs seldom bite, :"
remain with due respect,
Yours. &C.,
r. B. LOCKWOOD.
Bad Nsws from Gen. Stsele's Command.