The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-17

d dence and one or two ctherrevolutionary
manifestoes; it would never do to remind
Z. Stevens or Sumner that here under their
very nose, distinction was kept up: 1t
might be equally damaging to crowd the
two races together in the same apartment
!. inst vet. and hence the ushers, by a sort
.tof tacit agreement, ewhip the devil
around the stump" after the fashion l
! have mentioned.
/ The Spotswood is the best known OF
the hotels in Richmond, but there is some
4 question, I believe, as to its being the
best. For some reasons not apparent to
the visitors. the Spotsw ood is deemed to
/ be nthe most Southern" of the hotels
here. The house was kept open during
the war, and was under the management
of one of its present lessees. He has ia
i ken a prominent Union officer into part
! nership. SO that both shades of opinion
are represented in the proprietorshlp. as
among the guests. General Joe. john
/ ston is numbered among the boarders at
the Spotswood; among. his fellow board
ers are seVeralaof his former antagonists,
Union officers still on duty at Richmond.
There is, no moro promising sign OF the
| future of the South than is shown In the
alacrity with which the leaders in:the last
war adapt themselves to civil Life. An
incalculable amount of mischief might
have been done by these men had they,
| chosen to remain idle, lounging around
taverns and keeping alive the memories
of an episode in our history which every
man who wishes well.to the country Will
be glad to see the Southern people, at all
events, forget. The war was no sooner
closed than the men who figured most
conspicuously in it, at once, set about en-
ployment in the ordinary pursuits of life.
| That their example has had an excellent
effect on the South can hardly be ques-
toned. Gen. Lee, as is well known, has
accepted the Presidency of college ];
Mosby is practicing law; Beauregard
building railroads; Forrest attending to
the work on his plantation, and Joe. John
I:ston is here fulfilling his duties as Presl-,
dent of the National Express Company
GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON.
From the reports which reach us at the
North. / expected to find General Lce the
most popular-cspecially in Virginia-.o,t
! all the men in any way associated with
the late war. Joe Johnston may fairly
claim to divide this honor. Johnston's
ability as a soldier, and character as
man. we're mentionedin the very highest.
terms by every Southern man 1 heard
mention his name in Richmond. John
.ston's popularity receives the credit OF
having planned the campaign which re-
suited in the discontinue of McClellan's
! plans in 1862. He was in chief command,
| it will be remembered, at the time, and
was wounded slightly in one OF the en-
eagements before Richmond. His place
was supplied by Gen. Lee, and there is
popular notion here that Gen. Mcclellan
would not have been successful in reach
ing the James, if Johnston's plan had
| been carried out in all its details. John.
ston is q stout, soldierly-looking man OF
about so. Dressed in business suit OF
grey clothes, he moves aboutthe hotel
in which; by the way, the chief Office
of the National Express Company ist To-
cated-seemingly solely intent upon the
business he has now in hand. lie neither
appears to seek nor shun the public gaze.
He is a sharp, active business man, and
to all appearance desires to be considered
nothing more. Johnston could maintain
q libel suit against the publishers OF the
photographs which pass for his likeness
in the North. He is far q more comely
man than these pictures represent him to
be. The most noticeable feature in lis
tace is his light piercing grey eyes, which
seem to look 'squite through" those whom
he has occasion to talk with.
THE CONVERSATION OF THE PEOPLE.
Visitors from the North will seldom
feel the need of an intelligent Southern
man to converse with, if they are dispo-
sed to take advantage of this method OF
ascertaining the views of the people. |
would be inclined to doubt, am tree to
confess, the sincerity of those who made
pretentions to loyalty before and all
through the war / am equally free to
say l met hardly one Of this class The
general views of thepeople are, perhaps,
fairly Representative the conversation OF
business man, with whom one Of my
companions had some matters of a legal
character to settle.
"I was," he said, "opposed to the seces-
sion movement l voted, as did the ma.
jority of the people of Virginia, in the
election Of 1860, for Bell and Everett, as
| the compromise candidates between the
two great parties. Igrew up in the be-
lief that Virginia hadthe power to secede
from the Union when her peoplefelt that
they could not retain all the rights to
which they were entitled to within it, but
/ did not see the necessity for the exer-
else of the power because of Mr.. Lincoln's
election. But, when the State seeded, 1
went with my State, as thought it was
nv duty to do. Well, the question is
settled forever, and know no one that