The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-31
THE LOUISIANA SETTLEMENT.

lowing characteristic letter from Genera
Butler to Mr.. Pitkin, United States mar
shall in Louisiana:
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 90, 1877.
My DEAR P1rKIN l have yours of the
10th inst, informing me that when you
were in Washington both the president snC
Mr.. Devens, the attorney general, gave yor
substantial assurances that you would moi
be disturbed in your Office as United States
marshal, being native of the state of Lou
isiana and good republican, and sgainsI
whom no ofiicia! malfeasarce or personal
dereliction from the path of right had beer
shown, and who, therefore, came eminent.
ly within the provisions, as / understand
it, of our republican administration. am
certain, therefore, that the president and
the attorney general would never have
asked your resignation of the office of mar
shal, as you say they have done, in con-
travention of their assurances and in die
regard of the principles of civil service re-
form. am bound, therefore, from what
| know of both these gentlemen, TO believe
that they intend in good faith to carry out
their assurances and preserve their prin-
ciples. One fault which find with your
letter is that you do not make sufficient
allowance for political necessities
and entanglements, by which good men
are compelled to do that which they would
rather not do. 1t is an open secret here,
as am informed, that Colonel Wharton,
your competitor, aided MIR. MacVeagh,
one of the commissioners at New Orleans,
very largely in getting a portion Of the
members OF the republican legislature to
desert from Packard and go over to
Nichols, by which returning board leg
islature was put under the control Of
Nichols, and then that legislature enabled
the commission to advise that, as the legi1-
lature had recognized the Nichols govern
ment the president was bound to withdraw
thu troops. 1t is also asserted that $4,000
was to be paid to the leading deserting leg
islators and only $500 to others, disguised
in the latter case in the shape of mileage,
30 that Mr.. johnson, a 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 go
home. 1t is also asserted here that Colonel
Wharton, being the instrument selected
by Mr.. MacVeagh to do this piece
of business, had his promise of
accomplished it. Now, Wharton per-
LIS oluC VI luC UalR dlu, duu
you are very unreasonable 10 Directing that
the administration should carry out their
side of it, or, at least, do the best they can
so to do. 1t ought TO Salty 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
fri uhA Lax
his best, and succeeded in elecling AIr.
Stanley Matthews to the senate at the re-
quest of the president, and as 1t is said, on
make him speaker OF the house of represen-
tatives, will have to be, and ought to be,
satisfied with fair, honest and "hearty"
endeavor on the part of the President to
make him speaker, and if he fails Garfield
not remembering that ga bird in the hand
is worth two in the BUSH"
Now, my dear Mr.. Pitkin, l call upon
you, by the love you bear to the republi-
can party and it's principles, in memory of
the many sacrifices you have made during
aud since the war as union man in Lou
isiana, for the safety of the country, aud
not for The sake of holding office under the
Unitod 6tatoe mot to th-ou any impedi-
ment In the way of the presidents fulfilling
all the bargains which his subordinstes
made, as necessary steps in inauguraiipg
his Southern policy, which is to be of so
great and incalculabe advantage, not only
TO the party which you love 30 we'll, but
also to the country, for the unity and paci-
fca!ion of which you have given the best
days Of your manhood. l write thus to
you because | thought detected in your
note to me what seemed to be an unrea-
sonable tene of complaint that you are thus
to be sacrificed. Remember that Abrsham
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 occa-
sion, and so, when you find that the presi-
dent, in obedience to the call of the coun-
try and the public exigency for its pscifca-
ton, deems 1t 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 comfort and con-
ISOLATION, but such as | have | give unto
you. am yours, truly,
BENJAMIN f. BUTLER
j. X. q. Pitkin, esq, United States mar
shall, New Orleans, La.
WAYNE MAovRIGH's REPLY.
PHILADELPHIA, May 90, 1877.
SIR have just read your letter in the
New York Times. Your informant hap
pens to have told you the exact opposite of
the truth in every statement respecting me-
Colonel Wharton did not aid at New Or
leans, but was one of the sdherents of the
Packard government TO the end. He did
not manage or transact any kind of bust
ness for me ; he did not receive any prom
Use from me in respect to any office. 1
have not asked the president to appoint
him marshal. So much for that portion of
yonr letter. Where l 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 false
hood. 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 practical difficulties in the way of
my committing II. / had no money of nv
own to spare, and 1t is only a military COM
in New Orleans in time of war
who can safely appropriate any considera-
BILE quantity of the property of others
to his own use. The fact 10 that the en-
emles of reconciliation in Louisiana
waste their time in trying to discover
or invent some kind of bargain with
which at once to account for its success
and to dscredit 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
opposite policy, comparing the four years
10 come Of honest and lawful government,
with The eight years just ended of hatred,
Intimidation, outrage, corruption, anarchy
and murder. Therafnre from tho hitfer