The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1877-06-14

me. Col. 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 bus
mess for me; he did nor receive any promise
from me in respect to any office. 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 to
declare it to be, as you we'll know it to be a
base and cowardly falsehooe. 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 dfflcu>
ties in the way OF my committing it. l had
no money OF my own to spare, and it is only
a military commandant of New Orleans 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 Louisiana vast
some kind OF bargain with which at once to
account for its success and to discredit it.
Strange as it may seem to some of them. DO.
litical results are still atainable in this coun-
try by straightforward and honest methods,
and the country will Judge the result we Sc
cured by its fruits in comparison with the
fruits of the opposite policy. Compare 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 disappointed, appeal 20 the gem
erous judgment Of the American peple, and
await their decision upon the subject OF
our labors in Louisiana, not with misgiving
or excuses, but with confidence and pride.
Yours truly,
WAYNE MACVEAaH.
MIR. MCvEAGH PUTS IN A REJoINDER. 4
PHILADELPHIA, June 6.-Mr. WAYNE
McVeagh furnished the following letter in
reply to General Butler to press this even.
ing:
Gen. B. r. Butler, Washingron, D. c.:
fear you have overlooked your inventive
faculties, for your long and la bored letter of
to-day shows signs of failing powers, and
will go far to destroy that reputation for eff
fective scurrility which you have so sedulous-
ly fostered. The issue between you and me
was at your own seeking, aud is so plain you
cannot obscure it by any amount of msrep-
resentation, however irrelevant or vulgar.
You deliberately wrote and published con
corning me four sheer falsehoods without
particle of foundation for any of them.
ihereup0n promptly put you on the ma
tional pillory with very legible statement
Of your offences upon your forehead.
AS you have endured your punishment
Tor an entire week, and now virtually con-
less that every statement made by you was
untrue, have no objection to your getting
down, but you must not suppose placed you
there in resentment only. My chief purpose
was to exhibit you as warning to younger
men, by showing them that, in spite Of great |
ability and energy. you have become the
eper of our politics. by reason of the gener-
u conviction that you habitually disregard |
she eighth and ninth commandments. That
purpose has been fully answered by the COM
nents OF the country upon your character,
ind have no further interest in the matter.
will not even take the trouble to deny any
new falsehoods you may think it to; your.ad-
vantage to invent about me, for those who
know me will not believe anything you say
against me, and those who know YOU, of |
course, will not believe anything you say
against anybody.
(Signed) WAYNE MCVEAaH.