From the Saline County Journal (Salina, Kan.), 7/28/1887, p. 2, c. 2

MISS VAN LEW was discharged from the post office department for applauding the sentiment which was against the return of the rebel flags, but the excuse for her dismissal was “incompetency.” But they caught a Tartar when they undertook to reflect upon her qualifications. She says: “I pronounce the story of incompetency and inefficiency utterly false. The chief of the stamp division has treated me with great rudeness and severity. He was a confederate, from Tennessee. I demand an honest and fair trial at the requisition work, that I may show the truth. What chance has a clerk for redress, particularly a woman, and one earnestly loyal as I am.”

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