The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-21

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the floor of the House that all he
wanted was to get his mileage and
60 home. It is also asserted here
that Col. Wharton, being the inetru-
ment selected by Mr.. MacVeagh to
do this piece of business, had H.
promise of being made Marshal it
he successfully accomplished it.
Now, Wharton performed his side
OF the bargain, and I think you are
very unreasonable in objecting that
the administration should carry out
their side of it, or, at least, do the
best they can so to do. It ought TO
satisfy Wharton that they have asked
you to resign, and you won't, and
therefore they have done the best
they could to make good Mac V eagh's
bargain, and as they can't, Wharton
ought to be satisfied, precisely like
my friend, Gen. Garfield, who, hay
ing done his best, and succeeded in
electing Mr.. Stanley Matthews to
the Senate at the request of the Pre-
sident, as it is said, on the agreement
that the President would make him
Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives, will have to be, and ought to
be, satisfied with fair, honest and
'hearty' endeavor OH 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 him
self if for not remembering that "a
bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush.'
N w, my dear Mr.. Pitkin, I call
upon you, by the love you bear to
the Republican party and it's prin-
eiples, in memory of the many sacri-
fees you have made during and
since the war as q Union man in
Aouiaiana, for the safety Of the coun-
try, and not for the sake Of holding
Office undor the United States, not TO
throw any impediment in tho way of
the Presidents fulfilling all the bar
gains which Lis subordinatea made,
as necessary steps in inaugura:ing
his Southern policy, which is to be of
so great and incalculable advantage,
not only to the party which you love
so we'll, but also to the country, for
the unity and pacification of which
you have given the best days of your
manhood.
/ write thus to you because ]
thought I detected in your note to me
what seemed to be an unreasonable
tone of complaint that you are thus
to be sacrificed. Remember that
Abraham 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
complaints or outcries of Isaac on
that occasion; and 80, when you find
that the President, in obedience to
the call of his country and the pub
lie exigency for it's pacification,
deems it 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 moro than
Isaac did when he lay upon the altar
uuder the knife of bis father, Abra-
ham. l am sorry that [ cannot write
you any other words of comfort and
consolation, but such as l have 1
give unto you. I am yours, truly,
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
j. Ii. G. Pitkiu, Esq, United States
Marshal, Now Orleans. La.
WAYNE MAovEAH MAKEs A SHORT,
POINTED AND PUNaENT DENIAL.
Mr.. MacVeah has furnished the
following letter to tho press in reply
to Butler:
PHnADELpHIA, May 30, 1877.
Sir: have just read your letter in