The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-10-14
A LETTER FRon TEE soUTH.


EtfAW, ALA, sept - lSsJ
FraHk KitrD,iLler, Esq, Highland. Kansas:
Mr. DEAR SR:-Your favor of the 10th inst is to
hand, and in reply, have to say that the letter to
which you refer was written by me, and published
in the indianapolis Journal, and great many other
papers, and the statements therein detailed are true
could add a great many others, showing the das-
tardly principles Of these fellows. have written
good many letters NortA and West, detailing their
vlainies, but am paying for u. They have utterly
prescribed me; dontt speak to me- and their border
ruffan journals have all opened on me with shower
of defamatory mud. But amongst it ali, i am calm
and serene. Their mud will not stick to me- for my
moral character is utterly unasssilable, and can
laugh at their frothing at the mouth Yet you don't
know how terrible il is to have the white people all
arrayed against you; and but for the blessed con
scousness that am right, my heart would sink under
the load Of slander and reproaeb. r..
God will bless the great Republican party with
victory, because it alone can save US. If Hancock
could succeed, would have to get away from this
country like Lot fleeing from Sodom. Our blessed
Lord stood no better showing with the Jerusalem
mob than would southern Republicans at the hands
Of these Bourbons. You speak Of soldiers at the
polls We have had them here, and they never yet
deferred any from voting None but wicked
men are afraid Of the bae boys. as our poor negro
Republicans call them. They have never to nv
knowledge, invaded the rights of any man. You
people of the North patient trusting; nsuspect-
ing. ineredulous. ! tell You truly, these Southern
people dcSpise the National power, and they will
stop nj nothing to overthrow it, dare say there is
not L. = flag within 100 miles of this place except
the in my parlor. They hate it as the synonym
Of the Yankee Nation. Now, | was born and rcared
in the South, and fought in the Confederate army,
under General Lee but when the lost cause went
down. gave my allegiance to the only country left
to me, and am going to stand by it, and the party
that eheriShes it, in spite of any Thing its enemies
say Of or do to me.
The Democrats counted themselves a majority of
not find the returns footed mp in any of their papers
They bit off more than they could chew up Really,
they lave not that many voters in the State Some
of them have the orontery claim that the negroes
voted with them. but God knows it is false. 1t is
totally against their nature tell you, they boasted
in my presence that they intended out-count us,
and, true to their word, they did it, in the most
barefaccd manner; and such is the condition Of af
fairs here, that could get relief from the
Oh il is impossible tell the shameful facts about
Anglo-Saxous, but may hc smitten dumb and blind
if they not fully true.
1 could write a book on the subject, but will not
weary YOU farther.
Thanking you for your kind letter, and exhorting
you to work for the great party that by the election
of Garfield, bring relief the poor and defense
less am yours &C., WINFIELD S. BIRD.