The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-08-28
BUrLER's SALARY GRAB DEFENSE.
An Able and CaGsiie Reply b Con-
gresham HOar, or Massachusetts,.
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BOSTON, August ID.
Congressman GeOrge y. Hoar, o
, Worcester, has written long letter In
reply to General Buffers defense o.
the back salary grab, and attack on
him, with Others, which is notable
for its force and Vit, and keen analy-
sis of the Generals peculiar character.
He rehearses the circumstances % the
vote Of back pay on the last day OF
1 Congress, and condemns it, though
considering 70 n perfectly legal pro-
eeeding. But the measure and argu-
ments by which il was advocated
made radical change, he says, in the
! policy Of the American people, taking
the legislator out OF the class of per-
sons whose reward is chiefly the honor
Of rendering important public service,
and who are to receive from the Treas
uFy only a frugal and honorable main
tenanee, snd transferring them to the
class OF persons who are serving for
hire. The legislst u has been CHASED
with the Judge, the teacher, the eler-
| gyman. Woe to the country when
places in Congress shall become OBJ
jects Of desire on account % the
money that is earned in them.
I In giving his share OF the increase
to the Worcester Free Institute, Mr..
HOar says he acted on the impulse of
I the moment. He endeav0fed 60 de-
tefmine the question where the money
ought, i'm justice, 10 90, as Justly aud
as equitably as he could under the cir
cumstances. His important dGty, he
supposed, was not to touch it himself.
''fhis Is the transaction" continues
Mr.. HOar, (which General Batler
thinks resembles the purchase Of tie
pOtter's field by the chief priests with
Judas thirty pieces Of silver. Like
another PersOnage much perseeuted
by the clergy and religious press, Gen.
Butler is notoriously unfOrtunate in
his allusi0n to Scripture. One Of his
biographers said Of him, ''He makes
great use of the story of Ananias ever
since he first heard Of him, about ten
years age, from the late Chief Justice
Nelson, in Concord Court House.
Mankind execrate Judas because he
betrayed the confidence Of his master.
They execrate the chief priests be-
cause they tempted him to do evil by
bFibe. The representative who be-
trays the confidence Of the people, so
far resembles Jndas. The represea-
tative who temPts the cupidity Of his
fellows, so far resembles the cAief
priests. The disposition Of the many
for the purchase of the pottef's field,
not only was not wrong, but was ex-
pressly comMended by God. They
took the thirty pieces of silver and
gave them for the pOtter's fieId, a. the
Lord appointed"
General Buffers real grief, says Mr..
Hoar, arises from the opposition he is
eneOunteFing in bis plan to get pos
session of the government Of Massa-
chusetts by fraud on the Republican
voters. His rage at the press, the
clergy and the promineRt'men Of the
country is not strange. 1t is the COM
mon Outcry OF great malefactOrs that
mankind are in league against them.
He has quarreled with everybody
with Grant, and Wilson, and .COlfax,
and Blaine, and Andrew, and Sumner,
and the Washburns, and Bingham,
and Schenez, and DaWes-beeause he
is quarelsome. They have been COM !
PEELED, each in his own way, to chas- !
tise and punish him, because he de-
served to be whipped.
He has done, unless he has eyre
giously imposed upon US, two things
well. He out blackguarded a New
York mob In 1854, and with q United
States army at his back, he kept down |
q rebel city in 1882. Massachusetts, is
not likely soon 10 stand in need of
either of these processes; but he never
has accomplished any thing else of
much importance, when his point
could not be carried by sheer buster
ing. The history of his other attempts
may be compromised in three words
-"swagger,p quarrel failure"
have only stated, says Mr.. Hoar in
conclusion, what is known of all in
telligent men. The people will recOg-
nize.the fidelity OF the portrait l have
drawn. All its features are disclosed
unmasked in the letter which has
called out this communication.