The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-07
SARCASTIC BEN BUTLER.

SARCASTIC BEN BUTLER.
Poking Rather Serious Fun at Hayes
and his Policy.
Gen. Benjamin f. Butler has given the
following letter, reviewing the policy of
the Administration in scathing terms to
the press:
WAsHINGToN, D. c., May 20.
Aiy Dear Ptkin: have yours of the
were in Washington, both the President
and Mr. Dcvens,. the Encouragement,
gave you substantial assurance that you
would not be disturbed in your office rs
United States marshal, being native cf
against whom no official malfeasance or
personal dereliction from the path of
right had been shown, and who, there
fore, came emincntly within the proyi-
sions Of civil service reform, which is the
cornerstone, rs / understand it, of our
Republican Administration. I am GER
tain, therefore, that the President and
the encouragement would never have
asked your resignation of the Office of
marshal, rs you say they have done, in
contravention of their assurances and IN
disregard of the principles of civil service
reform. am bound, therefore, from
what know Of both of these gentlemen,
to believe that they intend in good faith
to carry out their assurances and preserve
their principles One fault which find
with your letter is that you do not make
sufficient allowance for political necessi-
ties and entanglements, by which good
men are compelled to do that which they
would rather not do. It is an open secret
here; as am informed, that Col. Whar-
ton, your competitor, aided Mr.. Mac
Veagh, one of the commissioners at New
Orleans, very largely in getting portion
of the members Of the Republican Legis-
lature to desert from Packard and go over
to Nichols, by which Returning Board
Legislature was put under the control of
Nichols, and then that Legislature ell
abicd the Commission to advise that, us
the Legislature had recognized the
Nichols government, the President was
bound to withdraw the troops. It is also
asserted that 81 GOO was TO be paid to the
leading deserting Legislators, and only
5000 to others, disguised in the latter
case in the shape of mileage, SO that Mr..
johnson, 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. It is
also asserted here that Col. Wharton, be-
ing the instrument selected by Mr.. Mac
ash to do this piece of business, had
his promise of being made marshal if he
successfully accomplished it. Now,
Wharton performed his side of the bar
gain, and think you are very uureason-
able 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 MacVeagh's bargain,
and as they can't, Wharton ought to be
satisfied, precisely like my friend Gen.
Garfield, who having done his best, and
succeeded in electing MIR. Stanley Mat
thewB to the Senate at the request of the
President, as it is said, on the agreement
that the, President would make him
Speaker of the House Of Representatives,
will have to be, and enght to be, satisfied
with a fair, honest and hearty" en-
deavor on the part of the President to do
all he can to make him Speaker, and if
he fails Garfield viii have nobody to
blame but himself for not remembering
that "a bird i'll the hand is worth two in
the bush."
Now, my dear Mr.. Piskin, call upon
you, by the love you bear to the Repub-
lican party and its principles, In memory
of the many sacrifices you have made
in Louisiana, for the safety of the coun-
try, and not fox the sake Of holding Office
under the United States, not to throw
any impediment in the way of the presi-
dent IuinllIng aIi the bargains which his
subordinates made, as L ecessary stems &.
inaugurating his Southern policy, which is
to be of so great and incalculabie adyan-
tage, not tonly to the party you love SO we'll,
but also to the country, for the unity and
pacification of which you have given tie
best days of your manhood. I write thus
to you because thought 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 MS ola nge, 10 Ghat
he believed to be the will of God and the
necessities ofhis people and the Good Book
does not make mention of any uureasona-
bic complaints or outcfies Of Isaac on that
occasion; and 60, when yor fnd That the
President, ia obedience TO the call for his
country and the prhlic exigency for its
qualification, deems il necessary to sacri-
lice you, .nd take away ycuf Office and
give : to one who wore the gray when
you stood in the blue, you ought not to
kick and hqeirm any more than Isaac did
when he Law tRnti tile altar under the
knife Of his father, abraham. lam sor-
nv 4 cannot write you any other words OF
caiss1ssv and consolation, but sreh as
have I give unto you. 0s "a
11gti 0sirs, truly, n ssa
BEN . a tisII;ssss Il. BIITLRR. Il
j.. g. g. FITlSIEs ESD, United States
marshal, New Orleans, Ia.
Asaevcsgh Informs sl5utier that he is no
Such FelIUw.
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