The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-10
rseast Butler on the Situation.

WASHINGTON, April 7, '1S77.-General Is.
r Rutler has been in this city for the last
two weeks attending to business in the local
courts and before the departments. For
some DAYS past there has been rumor that
he and Senator Blaine have agreed to forgive
and forget 1heir od-time battles, political
luminosity and bitterness. and the one IN the
Senate and the other III the House lead the
Radical Republican revolt against the psncy
of the Administration in regard to the SOUTH
ern States. A representative OF the Heratd
called upon General Butler last evening,
when the Massachusetts, statesman gave
some Of his ideas on the political situation.
In reply to the inquiry what he thought
OF the policy OF Cancellation and pacifca-
ton he said, with the most transparent
irony Il am rs happy az [ can be. We are
all happy. The whole country is happy.
We have all been waiting long time for
the blessed contamination that has come to
us under this new political dispensation-
the political millennium. God moves in
| .nvs: nrious way his wonders to perform.
| Ail our quarrelling and pickering, the strife
| between the sections. are at an end; in
truth. the lion and the lamb are lying down
together, and (elancing in what to the Her
aid representative seemed the direction OF
the Executive mansionl the little child is
leading them. All our political disputes,
contests, and rivalries are over now, and
there neverWas such blessed condition OF
affairs" ..'-' .''' .'
After q few minutes pause and some
vigorous DutTs Of his aftcr-dinner cigar Gen
raj Butler said :" Would you like to hear
from the Bible definition OF this Louisiana
commission business?" Laying down his
cigar the General took from 4 small book
case near his desk an edition Of the Bible,
and, after fumbling over it for some time,
read, with an describably-humorous facial
expression, the following: ... ...
And unto the angel OF The Church of the
Laodiceans write; These things saith the
Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning OF the creation OF God.
know thy works, that thou art neither
cold nor hot. would thou vert cold or
hot. So then because thou art lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot, i will spue thee
out Of my mouth. y,
Chow should like" said he, "to preach a
sermon on that text as applied to the Admin
iStration in Parson NeWman's church." He
continued: "You read the resolutions OF
the New England Methodist Conference a
few days ago? Those ministers represent
the sentiments of the New England Method
lists. Every one of them is Republican.
The old-fashioned Republicans Of New
England believe in precisely that doctrine,
no matter what you newspapers may say"
At this point the Herald representative
made inquiry, General, shall we consider
all this as for the publlc:'
He replied, ~ do not care whether you
print it or not. / am not talking treason,
and do not intend to talk treason. The
Herald is welcome to make any use It
pleases Of my ideas"
"Mhat do you think will be the end OF
the policy OF the Administrati ion ?"
"Wel," said he, call our political history
teaches one lesson, which is this Compro-
misses have never won; on the contrary, they
| have always failed and destroyed the men
who made them. Compromises ruined Clay
and Tyler. They have ruined parties. Will
the. present compromise be an exception?
That is the question. What is the situa-
tion?. Mr.. Hayes is the first President who
has not brought in the beginning Of his adj
ministration a House OF Representatives
with him. Grant did it. The folly OF the
southern leaders gave Lincoln a majority
in 1861, and so all the way back without, I
believe, an exception. But the next House
is against the President. .......- ~.
GLOW about the Senate-what is the ma
iority there ?" / asked. -..-.f
Louisiana and South Carolina will in
short time make the division Of parties there
so close that no one Gun tell what will hap
pen. Sharon Will be absent three-iourths
of the time looking after his slYer-mines,
and while he, and others possibly, are abb
sent, what becomes of the Administration,
unless we are TO have, as we have now, the
lion and the lamb business 2" - j..
.sBut," said !, show about organizing
the next House Oh the administration
plan?",: %" si.:a1 11nti -o-i4.-:,: .
General Butler laughed Il long, loud,
hearty laugh. ,.c...'1 .~'a.lH' &c.,:
"Then you have little. faith in the move
ment to make General Garfield or some
other Administration leader Speaker. .
r." Said Butler: i" We shall see General
Garfield is worthy gentleman. He would
grace any position, and especially the Speak
I.er's chair-that is, IL he could be elected.
Being an Ohio man, do not know bat that
he ought to be elected. They had such a
+hell-fred majority out there in the last
election that they ought to get whatever
they want. I do not know but that it
would be a good idea to give every inah Of
the majority an Office" .,
Going BACK to the louisiana contest,
General Butler said: president Hayes
evidently does not know what manner Of
man Packard is. He had better send for
him and see how he compares with. Hamp-
ton. His letter to Mr.. Hayes yesterday
morning is exceedingly able-onc OF the
best things the newspaper types have set up
for some time" ~, ~
GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN INCLINED TO
HOLD on TO HIS OFFICE. = Washington,
April SIT appears thai new complications
have arisen in South Carolina affairs. Gov