The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-06-02

nave asked you 10 ESsiSui duu you WO0 u
and therefore they have done the best
they could to make good Macy eagh's |
bargain. and as they can't, Wharton ought
to be satisfied, precisely like my frien0 |
Gen. Garfield, who, having done his |
best, and succeeded in electing Mr.. Stan
ley Matthews to the seDate at the request
of the president, as it is said, on the
agreement that the president would make
him speaker of the house of representa- |
tives, will have to be, and ought to be,
satisfied with fair, honest, and hearty"
endeavor 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 MIR. Pitkin, / call upon
you, by the love you bear to the Repub-
lican party and its principles, in memory
Of the many sacrifices you haye made dur
ing and since the war as union man in
Louisiana, for the safety Of the country
and not for the sake Of holding office under
the United States, not to throw any i'm
pediment 10 the way of the presidents
fulfilling all the bargains which bis subor
dinates made, as necessary steps in inaug
uratiEg his southern policy, which is to
be of so great and incalculable advantage,
not only to the party which you love so
WELL but also to the country, for the
unity and pacifcation of which you haye
given the best days of your manhood. |
write thus to you because though. | de-
tected in your note to me what seemed to
be an unreasonable tone of complaint
that you are thus to be sacrificed. Re
member 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
OF his people, and the good book does not
make mention of any unreasonable COM
plants or outcries of Isaac on that oc-
casion, and so, when you find that the
president, in obedience to the call of his
country aud the public exigency for its
pacl6cation, deems it necessary to sacrifice
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 sorry that
cannot write you any other words of com
fort aud consolation, but such as | have
give unto you. ] am yours truly,
BENJAMIN Il. BUTLER
j. r: G. Pitkin, Esq, United States Marshal, New
Orleans, La,
There is no need of key to the grim
humor of this epistle, In fact, there is
never any possibility Of Misunderstanding
Gen. ButleS. The letter reads strangely
like Morton's, with the sarcasm little
better adapted to ordinary comprehension
In this case Buffers face is turned toward
Pitkin, but his remarkable left eye is fixed
point flank on Hayes How do Hayes
and his friends like the expression of that
optc2
Mr.. Macy eagh was one of Mr.. r. B.
Hayes's committee (of which Judge
Charles B. Lawrence, of this state, was
chairman) to go down to New Orleans and
find some excuse for recognizing Nichols
and Democratic state government:
WHAT WAYNE MACvEAGH SAYS.
| PHILADELPHIA, May 29.-FolIowing is
the text OF letter addressed by the Hon.
Wayne Macy eagh to General B. F. But
Ter, 10 reply to the latter's letter to
4
in the New York Times:
II PHILADELPHIA, May 90, 1877.
SIR; have just read your letter II
the New York Times. Your informant
happens to have told you the exact op
2 posite of the truth in every statement
: respecting me- Colonel Wharton did
not aid me at New Orleans, but was one
of the adherents Of the Packard govern
ment to the end. He did not receive any
promise from me 10 respect to any Office
! have not asked the president to appoint
i him marshal. So much for that portion
4 OF your letter. Where | am known
4 do not need to deny the silly story abou
I, the use of money, or to declare 1t to be
= as you know it to be, base aud cowardly
a falsehood For those who do not know
!. me, perhaps | ought to add that
"a my part to the crime. there wer
e committing it. had no money Of N,
% own to spare, and it is only a militaT.
commandant at New Orleans in time O
war who can safely appropriate any con
siderable quantity Of the property of other
to his own use The fact is, that the enc
mics of reconciliation iu Louisiana vast
IuelE LlIuG III trying W uLSCONeI VI luN61
e some kind of bargain with which at one
to account for its success and to discredi
it, Strange as it may seem to some 0
d them, political results are still attainabI
in this country by straightforward an
honest methods, and the country wi
. judge the result we secured by its fruit, i
d comparison with the fruits of the oppost
a party. Comparing the four years t
! come of honest and lawful government
with the eight years just ended of hatred
intimidation, outrage. corruption, anarchy
q and murder, therefore, from the bitterness
e of good men misguided and of bad me
U disappointed, l appeal to the generou
u judgment Of the American people, and
!. await their decision upon the subject of on
u labors in Louisiana, not with misgiviugs O
Is excuses, but with confidence aud pride
u Yours truly, WAYNE MACVEAGH.
/ FALSE IMPRESSION. 1t is generally SUI
e posed by certain class of citizens, VIII
D, are moi Oractipal or exneriance0 thai Dv,