Year: 1875

LRAvKSwoKTH, July 13 1875.


Mr. pIroR:-I congratulate you the completion Of
arrangement by which the two papers Of your town
have merged into the Kansas Chief You were right
being tenacious of your old with its prestige Of
long establishment, and well-earned popularity.


In sober truth there is paper which receive with
more pleasure and open with full of finding
matter not only readable but entertaining and profitable


trust believe Do % in eomnsen with host Of sp-
preciatng friends that you may Hnd yor enterprise
handsomely remuneratve.


an sorry that your County has suffered much from
the late devastation We sympsthize with you, in
Leavenworth all the that have small share
of the evil ourselves to depore But CT, and hope
with you we'll the evil day has passed and there
reasonably good prospect of fair crops from subse
quent sowings Thus since the departure of the mis-
cradle pests the has been very favorable and
erything consequently that has been sOwn has grown
almost magcaly that fields green with corn,
and variOus grasses and buckwheat If with cOntinu
snce ssasonabe rains and late frosts shall again be
blessed with crops wemay yet smile at late fears
and be jabant in faith in the destiny of Kansas.
think have of rejoicing amidst the general
destruction and that is that enemy mrde less de
erined onslaught upon the weeds than upon the cult
waited crops of the most no1ous of these have been
apparently exr pated while almost all have suffered
wounds from ich they are but slowly recovering.


am sorry to you, distinguished for impartial and
philosophical views much afraid that the friends of
General raat may desire his reelection-n other words


that the Republican party may judge it wise renOmi
nate him for the Presidency.


Now, do not know that there is likely to be such
disposition but if there should be- there ought be
some better reason against indulgence than Gen
era Grant is now the President second time elected 1t
strikes me with the least force all arguments
against his nomination. The American people ought to
be high above being influenced by such bugbear is
presented by the warning against the adoption of
principle There principle worthy of the
name about the matter suppose there is not man to
be found who is in of third term second term
or for that matter of first term The question now as


eretofore or hereafter is Who is the best the
position Of President of the United Satesl it General
Grant, is it somebody else If it be General Grant
what does it that that he has filed the office for
four years eight Indeed if he has filed it for four
for eight and if during all that time he has been faith
full the high reposed in him. if he has firmly ad
hered the policy upon which he elected if the
ton steadily advanced under the terrible pressure of
the unwonted burdens perpextes consequent upon the
great rebellion and the unried process of recociaon
ii not the highest conceivable consideration in his favor
and the best possible reason why the people should elect
hint


Take any of those whose names have been mention
Sd and what there to awake the rayng CRY of
To have made little prominence in the Senate to have
presided with dignity and uranity over the House
of Representatives to have earned the reputation the
Supreme Bench of an able Judgewhat do these amount
to- to stem the torrent Of boers from party, which, in
its divisions and its chickering's of asprants shall have
ignored the very man whose prestige and whose fame
and whose steady and welltried arm in the most multi
form dangers always achieving gave promise Of