The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-16

to that State to speak on the same
platform with yourself, travelling
to8ether many miles to attend meet
ings to instruct your people on pub
lic affairs. Besides, my dear Mr..
McVeagh, the insinuation was un-
worthy of you. 1t is neither novel
or useful, and therefore not patenta-
Bile. A half-dozen dirty newspapers
have been enabled to preserve them
selves from bankruptcy for the last
dozen years by printing the asser-
tons about me which you only in
'snuate. Every one has his own
taste in choosing his own way to ac-
duire money, but If I were obliged
to choose one of two ways, either to
appropriate it as military comman-
dant" or to marry into family
where l was neither wanted nor by
which l could be respected, to get
money to spare | certainly should
NioOoO VIC IOl ltllCls SVldllSC do SOu
may think it, because l should have
the money after having committed
disreputable act to get it, and not liza
BILE to disappointment as L might be
after l had waited longer for dead
mems shoes by the other method.
There is another denial of yours of an
assertion that | did not make. l
have not asked the President to ap-
point him (Wharton) Marshal. l
never intimated that you had so
done. l have always supposed that
you had never asked President Hayes
for the appointment of anybody eX-
ceDt yourself, and my knowledge of
that idiOsyncrasy of yours would
have prevented me from asserting
that you had asked for the appoint
ment of Wharton. Certain it is that
Gov. Packard has not. Who do you
think is so pressing Col. Jack Whar-
ton, of the Confederate Army, that
Pitkin, the Republican and good Of
ticer, is called upon by Republican
Administration to resign his office to
make way for the rebel? What SER
vice has Wharton IA brave man, it is
true ever done for the party or the
country to earn high office, except to
help kill some of our gallant soldiers
whose lonely graves we were decora-
ting on the day got your kind note.
The General concludes his letter as
follows: /: "For the rest, as to the dis.
puted questions of fact relating to
what was said and done by the COM
mittee of which you were a member
when in New Orleans, we will re-
view this discussion after a committee
of Congress, of which it may be my
ill fortune to be member, has made
full investigation. Then, and not
till then, if you please, we will re-
new our correspondence, unless, in
deed, you would like to practice up
on me to educate yourself to formu-
late diplomatic notes. / must apollo
gize to you for the seeming delay
between the date of this note and
your reception of it. l began the re-
ply as soon as l was favored with
yours, but as l reserve matters of
this sort for recreation, / could not
finish it sooner, as | have been away,
hard pressed with professional en-
gagements. Pray hold me excused.
l am not only truly" but very
truly, yours.
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
Hon. Wayne McVeagh, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
The following is the letter of Mr..
Mac Veagh, to which Gen. Buffers is
a reply:
PHILADELPHIA, May 90, 1877.
Gen. Benz. +. Bmler:-Your in
formant happens to have told you
the exact opposite of the truth in
every statement respecting me. Col.
Wharton did not aid me at New Or
leans, 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 re-
spect to any office. l have not asked
the President to oppoint him Mar
shal. So much for that portion OF
your letter. Where l am known
do not need to deny the silly story
about the use of money, or to 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 tsom any
repugnance on my part to the crime
there were two practical difficulties
in the way of my committing it. ]
had no money of my own tospare, ,and
it is only military commandant Of
New Orlaens in time of war who can
safely appropriate any considerable
quantity of the property of Others
to his own use. The fact is that the
enemies of reconciliation in Louis