The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-07

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keep their hands in the pockets of the
white and the colored men as long as
they can, and when they can do so no
longer HE off to New York.
Mr.. Crittenden also spoke in favor of
the section.
SARCASTIC BEN BUTLER.
Poking Rather Serious Fun at Hayes
and his Policy.
Gen. BENJAMIN F. Butler has given the
following letter, reviewing the policy of
the Administration in scathing terms to
the press:
WASHINGTON, D. G., May 20.
My Dear Pitkip: 1 have yours of the
18th inst. informing me that when you
were in Washington, both the President
and Mr.. Deyens, the attorney-general,
gave you substantial assurance that you
would not be disturbed in your office as
United States marshal, being native Of
Louisiana and good Republican, and
against whom no official malfeasance or
personal dereliction from the path of
right had been shown, and who, there
fore, came eminently within the proyi-
sions of civil service reform, which is the
cornerstone, as I understand it, of our
Republican Administration. I am GER
tain, therefore, that the President and
the Attorney general would never have
asked your resignation of the Office of
marshal, as you say they have done, in
contravention of their assurances and IN
disregard of the principles of civil service
reform. I am bound, therefore, from
what know of both of these gentlemen,
to believe that they intend in good faith
to carry out their assurances and preserve
their principles. One fault which I find
with your letter is that you do not make
sufficient allowance for political necessi-
ties and entanglements, by which good
men are compelled to do that which they
would rather not do. It is an open secret
here, as am informed, that Col. Whar-
ton, your competitor, aided Mr.. Mac
Veagh, one of the commissioners at New
Orleans, very largely in getting portion
of the members Of the Republican Legis-
lature to desert from Packard and 60 over
to Nichols, by which Returning Board
Legislature was put under the control of
Nichols, and then that Legislature en-
abled the Commission to advise that, as
the Legislature had recognized the
Nichols government, the President was
bound to withdraw the troops. It is also
asserted that $4,000 was to be paid to the
leading deserting Legislators, and only
5000 to others, disguised in the latter
case in the shape of mileage, so that Mr..
johnson, colored man, speaking out of
the innocence of his heart, said on the
floor of the House that all he wanted was
to get his mileage and 60 home. 1t is
also asserted here that Col. Wharton, be-
ing the instrument selected by Mr.. Mac
Veagh to do this piece of business, had
his promise of being made marshal if he
successfully accomplished it. Now,
Wharton performed his side of the bar
gain, and + think you are very unreason-
able in objecting that the Administration
should carry out their side of it, or, at
least, do the best they can so to do. 1t
ought to satisfy Wharton that they have
asked you to resign and you won't and
therefore they have done the best they
could to make good MacVeagh's bargain,
and as they can't, Wharton ought to be
satisfied, precisely like my friend Gen:
Garfield, who having done his best, and
succeeded in electing MIR. Stanley Mat
thews to the Senate at the request OF the
President, as it is said, on the agreement
that the President would make him
Speaker of the House Of Representatives,
will have to be, and ought to be, satisfied
with fair, honest and "hearty," en-
deavor on the part of the President to do
all he can to make him Speaker, and if
he fails Garfield will have nobody to
blame but himself for not remembering
that "a bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush."
Now, my dear Mr.. Pitkin, I call upon
you, by the love you bear to the Repub-
lican party and its principles, in memory
Of the many sacrifices you have made
during and since the war as Union man
in Louisiana, for the safety of the coun-
try, and not for the sake of holding office
under the United States, not to throw
any impediment in the way of the Presi-
dent fulfilling all the bargains which his
subordinates made, as necessary steps in
inaugurating his Southern policy, which is
to be of so great and incalculable advan-
tage, not only to the party you love so well,
but also to the country, for the unity and
pacifcation of which you have given the
best days of your manhood. / write thus
to you because I thought I detected in
YOUR note to me what seemed to be an
unreasonable tone of complaint that you
are thus to be sacrificed. Remember that
Abraham was about to sacrifice his only
son, Isaac, the child of his old age, to what
he believed to be the will of God and the
necessities ofhis people, and the Good Book
does not make mention of any unreasona-
BILE complaints or outcries of Isaac on that
occasion and so, when you find that the
President, in obedience to the call for his
country and the public exigency for its
pacifcation, deems it necessary to sacri-
fice you, and take away your Office and
give it to one who wore the gray when
You stood in the blue, you ought not to
kick and squirm any more than Isaac did
when he lay upon the altar under the
knife of his father, Abraham. | am sor-
ry cannot write you any other words of
comfort and consolation, but such as l
have l give unto you.
Lam yours, truly,
J. R. G.. P1rKIN, Esq, United States
marshal, New Orleans, La.
MacVcagh Informs Butler that he is no
Such Fellow.