Under Refuge of Oppression , and labeled, Polite Letters from the South, one letter, from Somerton, VA, tells the Editor: “You can remain in Boston, and preach your doctrines, but coward-like, afraid to open your mouth elsewhere. The writer will visit your paper soon, and pull your d____d nose for you.”
The other letter, from the Lynch Club, of Charleston, South Carolina: “You son of a bitch: If you ever send such papers here again, we will come and give you a good Lynching; for the State will pay all expenses. So you had better keep them at home.”
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