Excerpt from Southern Letters
The letters here collected were written for the Atchison Daily Champion in April and May of 1881.
The instructions received by the writer as the representative of the Champion were to describe the condition of the South exactly as he found it. It is believed that these letters bear in themselves the evidence of an honest effort to carry out these instructions.
It should be borne in mind that the South, as far as visited and described, is the South of to-day, not the South of five or ten years ago; and it should also be remembered that the "bull-dozed" States, with the exception of South Carolina, were not visited. The writer has not undertaken to express opinions where he has had no opportunity for observation.
Certainly nothing here is "set down in malice." The South is here recognized as a part of our common country, to the peace and prosperity of which no good citizen of any section can remain indifferent.
The letters appear substantially as published in the Champion, and the critical may object that the collection savors more of the haste of the newspaper writer than the care of the book-maker; but, such as they are, the letters are submitted to the patient indulgence of the readers of Kansas, which has never failed the writer in lo! these many years.
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