The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-06-07

largely in getting portion of the mem
pers of the Republican Legislature to
desert from Packard and 90 over to
Nichols, by which Returning Board
Legislature was put under the control
of Nichols, AMI thc- that Legislature
enabled the commission To advise that,
as the Legislature had recognized the
Nichols government. the President was
bound to withdraw the troops 1t is
also asserted that 81 600 was to be paid
to the leading deserving legislators and
only $500 to others. disguised in the
latter case in the shape of mileage, SO
that Mr. johnson, colored man. speak
ing out of the innocence of his heart,
said on the floor Of the House that all
he wanted was to get his mileage and 90
home. It is also asserted here that Col.
Wharf n, being the instrument Sc ected
~ Mr.. MacV eagh to do this piece 81
business, had his promise of being made
Marshal if he successfully accomplished
it.
Now, Wharton performed his side
Of the bargain, and | think you are very
unreasonable in objecting that the Ad
miB-trarjon should carry out their side
Of It, or, 1t least, do the best they can
50 t. DO. 1t ought to satisfy Wharton
has they have asked you to resign, and
! you won't, and therefore they have done
thc pest they could to make good Mae
Weighs bargain. and as they can t.
| Wharton ought to be satisfied, precisely
Ike my friend, Gen Garfield, aho.
having done his best, and succeeded IN
electing Nj. Stanley Matthews to the
Senate at the request of tie President
as it is said, on the agreement that the
President would make him Speaker ofthe
House of Rel resentatives, will have to
be, and ought to be, satisfied with fair,
honest, and hearty endeav7r 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 han is worth two in the bush.
Now, my dear Mr. Pitkin, call
upon you, by the love you bear to the
Republican party and its principles, in
memory Of the many sacrifices you have
made during and since the war as a
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 impeachment in the way
of the Presidents fulfilling all the bar
gains which his subordinates made, as
necessary steps in inaugurating his
Southern policy, which is to he Of 81
great and incalculablc advantage, not
only to the party which you love so we'll
but also to the country, for the unit,
and pacitication ofwhich you have giver
the best days of your manhood | write
thus to you because [ thought | detect
ed in your note to me what seemed tc
be an unreasonable tone Of cOmplliut
that you are thus TO be sacrificed Re
member that Abraham was about t.
sqeBI6qf his plEo Sw8Rql ai fa Re befthevedf 81 t
be the will Of God and the necessities
of his people. and the Good Book does
not make mention of any unreasonable
complaints or outcries of Isaac on that
occasion, and SO, when you find that
the President, in obedience to the cal
of his country and che public exigency
for its pacification, deems it necessar,
to sacrifice you, ami take away your
office and give it to one who wore til,
gray when you stood in the blue, yol
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 | canno'
write you any other words of comfort
and consolation, but such as | give unto
you.
am yours truly,
BENJAMIN T BUTLER.