The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-06-01
Wayne Macveagh Skins % Boast.

L hlLaDELFA O1ay 1Oif' .
To General b. F. Butler:
Sir,-I have Just read your letter in the
New York Times. Your "informant J"
happens to have told you the exact oppo-
site OF the truth in every statement respect
ing me. ~ ...
Colonel Wharton did not aid me at New
Orleans, but was one Of the adherents OF
the Packard government to the end. He
did not manage or transact any kind Of
business for me. He did not receive any
promise from me in respect to any office.
I have not asked the President to appoint
him marshal. So much for that portion Of
your letter. '"'.
Where am known do not need to deny
the silly story about the use OF money, or
declare it to be, as you well know it to be, a
base and cowardly falsehood. For those
who do not know me, perhaps / ought
to add that, apart from any repugnance on
my part to the crime, there were two prac-
teal difficulties in the way Of my commit
ting it: had no money OF my own to
spare, and it is only Il military commandment
Of New Orleans in time OF war who can
safely appropriate any considerable guam
THY OF the property OF others to his own use.
The fact is that the enemies OF recOncilia-
ton in Louisiana waste their time in trying
with which at once to account for its sue
cess and to discredit it. Strange as it may
seem to some of them, political results are
still attainable in, this country by straight
forward and honest methods, and the cOun-
try will Judge the result we secured by its
fruits in comparison with the fruits OF the
opposing policy, comparing the four years
to come OF honest and lawful government
with the eight years just ended OF hatred,
intimidation, outrage, corruption, anarchy,
and murder.
Therefore, from the bitterness OF good
men misguided, and Of bad men disap-
pointed, appeal to the generous judgment
Of the American people, and Il await their
decision upon the subject Of our labors in
Louisiana, not with misgiyings OF excuses,
but with confidence and pride.
Yours truly, WAYNE MAcVEAGH.
General Butler is very fond OF writing
letters, and he may reply to Mr.. cVeagh's
extremely personal epistle. There is an
other friend OF General Buffers who says
he Is very anxious to have satisfactory re-
ply to letter he wrote to him q long time
ago. This is Private Dalzell. Three years
ago, when General Butler was making the
campaign for Congress'in which ne was de-
ie"tcu, be MAS auuTeSSluS Ills cOnStlCuHeutS
in the Town hall OF one of the villages Of
his district. While he was speaking an
enormous spoon was seen apparently to
descend from the ceiling and swing to and
fro Immediately in front OF the speaker.
For probably the first time in. his life Gen
cral Butter was staggered, and it was some
moments, before he could frame, an, appro-
pirate remark. Private DalzeIl heard OF
this incident, and says he thought it was
time to have the spoon question definitely
settled. He wrote the following: 4f.s,sG>
General Benjamin +. Butler: Are you
theft An carly answer will obfge q Il
- I" PRIVATE DALzELL.'
The General Endorsed on the back of this
"iou are an impertinent scoundrei," ant
returned 1t. The private, Reimbursed It,
Respectfully returned for a fuller an
swer." He has never heard from 1t, but say
that be- will be in Washington again whel
Congress meets in the fail, and that he thel
expects to see General Butler personally
when, IL be, still has no written reply, b
will request 9. verbal answer to his poiffein
terrogatory, Baltimore Sum-
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