The daily gazette., 1877-06-07
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So5 WILMINGTON. DEL THURSDAY JUNE 1877 1-.1

need not make me excuses, as YOU do,
for "not having money of your own to
spare" have known many men with,
out money, but have never known one
without an excuse for not having it.
AS you state your excuse, "it Is only a
military commandant of New Orleans, in
time of war, who can safely appropriate
any considerable quantity of the proper
ty of others to his own use." I...|
Do L understand you correctly that it
is the want of ability to do 1t osdfely',
that has prevented you from 'appropriat-
ing considerable quantity of the proper
ty of others to your own use?" i-..yr
However, l shall not affect to misun-
derstand the allusion which you thus
make, but pardon It to the apparent loss
OF your temper, which makes your writ
ing at once unjust, illogical and unper-
spicuous. If you believed, what you are
brave enough only to insinuate- because
although you were young and able-bod-
led, fail to recall the number of the reg
iment in which you served in the war for
your country's safety-certainly you
could not, as managing member of the
State Republican Committee of Pennsyl-
vania, have invited with pressing letters
"hiNii llOW hdfC, OAC WuO Ildu dDDTO-
priated wrongfully other peoples property
to come to that State, to speak on the
same platform with yourself, travelling
together many miles to attend meetings
to instruct your people on public affairs.
Besides, my dear Mr.. MacVeagh, the
insinuation was unworthy of you. 1t is
neither novel nor useful, and therefore
not patentable. A half dozen dirty news
papers have been enabled to preserve
themselves from bankruptcy for the last
dozen years by printing the assertions
about me which you only insinuate.
Every one has his own taste in choos-
ing his way to acquire money, but if 1
was obliged to choose one of two ways,
either to appropriate it as military com
mandant," or to marry into family
where was neither wanted nor by which
l should be respected, to get "money to
spare," certainly should choose the for
mer, strange as you may think it, because
at least should have the money, after
having committed disreputable act to
get it, and not be liable to be disappoint-
ed, as | might be, after had waited long
for "de ad mems Shoes" by the other
method.
There is another denial of yours of an
assertion that did not make / have
not asked the President to appoint him
(Wharton) Marshal" 1 never intimated
that you had so DONE had always sup
posed that you had never asked President
Hayes for the appointment of anybody
except. yourself, and my knowledge of
that lido syncrasy of yours would have
prevented me from asserting that you
had asked for the appointment of Whar-
ton. Certain it Is that Gov. Packard has
not. Who, do you think, is so pressing
Col. Jack Wharton, of the Confederate
army, that Pitkin, the Republican and
good officer, is called upon by Republican
Administration to resign his office to
make way for the rebel? What service
has Wharton "a brave man, it is true)ever
done for the party or the country to earn
high office, except to help to kill some of
our gallant soldiers, whose loMly graves
we were decorating the day I got your
kind note.
Let me advise you, my dear sir, not to
lose your temper in discussing political
matters. If you do you will prove your
self unfit to be employed to manage dip
lomatic affairs even near the smallest
court in Europe, say of Monaco, where
they have a standing army of sixty-three
men only, so that you need not be afraid
to go there because of any danger of war.
1 should be grieved if you do anything
Which Wouiu ny any pOSSlulllty loSStI bno
chance that you will leave, very soon, the
country, to be away at least four years.
For the rest, as to the disputed cues
tions of fact relating to what wassaid )ne
by the commission, of which you were a
member, when in New Orleans, we will
renew the discussion after committe of
Congress, of which it may be my ill-for-
tune to be member, has made full in
vestigation. Them and not till then, if
you please, we willrenew our correspond
ence, unless indeed you should like 20
practice upon me to educate yourself to
Formulate diplomatic notes.
l must apologize to you for the seeming
delay between the date of this note and
your reception of it. 1 began the reply
as soon as was favored with yours, but
as reserve matters of this sort for recre-
alton; 1 could not finish it sooner, as
have been very hard pressed with profess
sional engagements. Pray hold me ex-
cused.
1 am. not only " truly" but very truly
yours, BENZ. f. BUTLER.
The Hon. WAYNE McVEAGH, Phila-
delphia, Pa.