Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-19
MR.. HOAR REPLIES TO BUTLER.

ausWGE W OSueEdl ~ N''~
salary grab. 1t is a sharp production, in
which the General is not spared. Of the sal
airy bill, Mr.. Hoar says:
On the last day but one of the last Con-
gress, gentlemen who had drawn and receipt
ed for their pay in full, month by month.
voted themselves large sum, nearly $4,000
apiece, as compensation for past service. E
An example was set of lavish expenditure /
when the country, burdened everywhere with /
heavy National, State and Municipal debt,
needed an example of retrenchment.
The measure and the arguments by when |
it was advocated made a radical change in the
policy of the American people on this sub
ject, taking the legislators out OF the class OF
persons whose reward is chiefly the honor oil
rendering important public service, and VINO
are to receive from the treasury only frugai
and honorable maintenance, and transferring
them to class of persons who are serving
for hire!
There are some classes of our public ser
wants whose chief compensation tor serving
/ the republic is the having served her. Our
| Fathers in the first Congress placed the sal
airy of the President at $25, 900, a sum equal
! to one hundred thousand at the present day.
/ They fixed their own at the modest sum OF
three dollars per day. Hitherto the legsla-
tor has been clsssed with the judge. the
teacher, the clergyman, who expect nothing
but frugal and honorable maintenance.
think if the salaries of the professors in Yale
College were to be fixed at $40 900 year,
the College would have a much worse class
OF men in its service than now. Woe to the
country when places in Congress shall be-
ey that tiissrts of desire on account OF the mon
that place which p them mon 40 not 'h, tnr
= six months service, could propeP., a,a;r,od
to be one from which poor men are eXcludeu
Mr.. Hoar says Congress had legal right
to raise its pay at any time during the term
but "the present was an exercise fpower so
2 gross, so uucalled for, so extreme, as to con-
| stitute an sbuse of the confidence" On the
e passage Of the bill, he decided at once not to
e receive the back pay, and on the sth of March
S transferred it to the support of the Worcester
d Institute. For this General Butler assaulted
d him virulently. Mr.. Hoar says:
70 This is the transaction which Gen. Butler
thinks resembl the purchase of the potter
. field by the Chief priests with Jndas's thirty
pieces of silver. Like another pcrsonag,
much prosecuted by the clergy and the relg
er ious press, Gen. Butler is VIGOROUSLY uufor
NO tuna,e in his allasion to Scripture. One o
~ his biograrhers said of him :--.slIe make
y great use OF the story Of Annanlas, ever since
De he first heard of him. about ten years ago
j., from Chief Justice Nelson in Concord
III Court House"
IL Mankind execrate Judas because he be-
es ,r"yed the confidence of his Master. They
IN execrate the chief priests because they tempt
:, cd him to do evil by bride. The Represen-
i tative who betrays the confidence of the peo-
At pie so far resembles Judas. The Represen-
,f tative who tempts the cupidity of his fellows
so far resembles the chief priests. The dis
y" position OF the money, for the purchase of the
e potters held, not only not wrong, but
q was expressly commanded by God. "They
took tf, thirty pieces offs silver, and gave them
~, na -" ne'd, as the Lord appointed
Mr. Hoar says General Buffers rage at
II the press, the clergy, and most of the prom
i inent men of his party is not strange 1t is
he the common cutlery of great malefactors that
ut mankind are in league against them" He
A. cites instances in which General Grant and
p Governor Andrews gave evidence of want OF
e confidence in Butler, and accuses him o, be-
h ing always in quarrel. The letter closes as
follows:
r ''Gen. Butler has done, unless lie has eyre
, giously imposed upon US, two things we'll
He outblackguarded New York mob in 1864.
and with United States army at his back, he
, kept down rebel city in 1862 Massachu-
sets is not likely soon to stand in need of
either of these processes. But he never has
accomplished anything else of much import
ance when his point could not be carried BY
sheer clustering. The history of all his other
attempts may be comprised in three words
swagger, quarrel, failure. Other men have
asp'red before now to the office of governor
OF Massachusetts. 1t lie an honorable ambi-
t0n. They were content to waive them, if so
doing they could promote the harmony Of the
party. This man seeks nothing but his own
selfish ends, utterly regardless of the wishes
the welfare or the harmony of the great party
to which he processes to belong. The peonle
OF Massachusetts have sometimes elected to
this high office men who in some particulars
are not deserving of respect But the people
respected them, and chose them because they
deemed them worthy, and the persons so
chosen endeavored to deserve the public con-
fdence. This man, if he is chosen at all, ia
to be chosen without having the respect of
the men to whom he looks for support. II
would be hard to find leading supporter of
General Butler who will say that he deems
MN honest, truthful, disintereste'l, or incapa-
Bile of using power to crafty both his ambi-
ton and his revenge. The men whom Gen.
eral Butler will beat are the men whom he |
persuades to support him.
have only stated what is known of all in !
telliRent men. The people will recognize the |
fidelity OF the portrait have drawn. All its
features are disclosed, unmasked, in the let
ter which has called out this communication,
The editor of the Portland Press, who was
at Mr.. Blaine's party, speaks Of the ladies
present as follows:
It's impossible to speak in detail of the la
aies OF the party. The subject is difficult
ailKe because it is delicate and because it is
inexhaustible. There was a very nanny rem
resentation of the feminine beauty for which
Maine Is distinguished, and it involves no
small degree of fidelity to conventional pro-
priety to avoid mention of several of the
specially brilliant. One in particular, lovely
sl,i OF nineteen, sole daughter of her faith
efs heart, elected such universal HOMAGE