The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-20
GENERALS CAMERON AND BUTLER AND
JUDGE HOAR.
A Short Card from James NJ. ScoviI, OF
h New jersey.
CAMDEN. N. J.. AuQust L. 1873

Short Card from James NJ. ScoviI, or
M New Jersey. r
CAMDEN, N j., August Is, 1873.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
1t seems to annoy my old friend simon Cameron
that your reporter spoke tenderly Of the ''liber-
ais" But that very clever statesman, Cameron
whom Thad Stevens never loved, does me honor
in CHASING me with Mcclure and Curtin. 1t is
possible (Sunset Cox says 1t Isl for q man to have
two IDEAS in his head at the same
time. l loved Horace Greeley, alive, because
knews every throb Of his heart was that OF an
honest man and patriot And now that he is
dead, In common with true men everywhere,
revere the memory tvery dear to mel, of the good
old man who could not lie, and who dared stand
by the right every time, utterly dlsregardiug per-
sonal consequences.
And there is a vacant chair in the home OF our
American statesmen since Greeley died, that no
United States Senator, from Cameron to Conkling,
can fill.
For seventeen years Mr.. Greeley had been my
friend against the world, and 1t was the simple
mandate OF manhood to follow his waning fortunes
to the bitter end. l did 1t gladly. n that act Of
my life (of whcih am most justly proud) consigns
me to political oblivion, Will 60 there singing
psalms Of rejoicing
But have a weak side for Cameron. He is true
to his friends and he is the only Pennsylvania poll
tician have to thank for aid and comfort during
the dark days Of the rebellion.
But began this letter for the sole purpose or
speaking word for General Benjamin +. Butler.
II we believed Judge Hoar poor Butler is sinner
worse than the eighteen upon whom "the tower
Of SLOAN fell" Judge Hoar whose purity and
ability no man questions) took his back pay and
gave 1t away to some deserving charity. Butler
takes his and pays his butchers bill with it,
They stand on the same platform in the popular
judgment, and Judge Hoar voting against the bill
and then taking the money places him In q worse
position than Ben Butler.
Then the Judge cannot whistle the Congressman
from the Essex district down the wind with the
contemptuous intmaton that he (Butler) was
superior blacKguard in New York and jayhawked
his way into New Orleans.
mol Senator Cameron is just and timely In his
statements OF what Butler did do during the
bellion, and the great heart or the people recog-
nized under Lincoln's administration the execu.
tive power Of Ben Butler, whose military orders
were not OF the kind where the '1etter killcth,"
but rather breathed in every line something OF the
scotch "word Of quickening.n The very combina-
ton against Butler in Massachusetts implies the
recognition Of his great power and the danger to
the Ring that he may be nominated and elected.
Buffers wonderful insensipillty to newspaper
censure has created sentiment against him in
the minds Of those who are slow to think Of the
good men do, but very swift to swallow the evil
that is said Of publc men.
speak as an unprejudiced observer, now disso
ciated from politics, when / fail to discover as
the purest of political saints the anti-Butler COM
bination which Is busy in blackening and charac-
terizing Ben Butler as the chefest of sinners.
And venture, with becoming modesty, the pre-.
diction that If Ben Butler Is made the next
Governor of Massachusetts, that ancient and noble
Commonwealth 1.-THE home OF my ancestry for three
generations) will never be ashamed Of the man who
at Baltimore and elsewhere did his duty so well
in sustaining the nations honor that he can proudly
say, Reputation is what man says Of US; char.
acter is what God thinks OF u.s." Yours
JAMES NJ. SCOvIL.