The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-30
General BeHuregard at Long Branch
HIS Political Views, Etc.

LONG BRANCH, August 26.-Having noticed
in your Issue OF yesterday the arrival at Long
Branch of General Beauregard, who held q COM
mand in the late Confederate army, was in
duced to seek, see, and converse with him. l
tOund.him quietly enScOnCed in the vicinity OF
the Mansion House, where he was surrounded
by lew select souvenirs of other days, and in
his conversation expressed himself feelingly
and frankly in relation TO that trying ordeal
through which the country had passed, and the
equally terrible one through which 1T is now
taking it's transition.
l found the Generul to be, in manners, per-
son, and appearance fair representative de-
scendant of the Huguepots. he Is rather below
the medium height, and OF slight but muscu-
lar physique. l had the pleasure of meeting
HIM in the winter of 1851 on board fat-boat
on his way to New Orleans to be one of the
counsel in an important case between promi-
nent members of the bon-ton, which many of
of the disciples of Blackstone may yet remem-
ber His locks were then raven black, now
they are touched with the frosts of time He is
saDguine of the future If conciliatory measures
be adopted, and that the Government will efor
ages present an undivided front, standing as
monument of terror, and receiving the homage
OF an sppreeiatlve world
When interrogated in relation to Mexican
affairs, he very frankly disclaimed having at
any time sympathized or encouraged the Aus
trian-French alliance for the possession of
Mexico, and looked upon the invasion as an
eutopian idea. generated in the brain of Louis
Napoleon He also entertained a hope that
there would yet arise one that would in time
bring out of chaos the distracted elements now
Union He spoke of General Grant in very
thorough military tactician, but in @ square
stand.up fight with equal numbers, he con.
sidered Lee his superior.
In making allusion to some OF the generals
connected with the late Rebellion, StoneWall
Jackson came in for a share of comment, as
among the faithful defenders of the Confederate
cause; although at times he was led to believe
that through raBhness and recklessness he
sacrihced unnecessarily the lives OF many
Southern soldiers. He cherished the hope that
| through the instrumentality of President John
| son, and the conservative reconstruction policy
| lnaugurated by him, the Government would
| be again restored to its primitive purity, as
transmitted by the fathers of the republic
The General in conclusion expressed a de-
sire that the American people in future
would, in the language of Clay, know "no
North. no South, no East, no West, and that
lhey were OF one common family, pledged, for
veal or woe. in support of the only true system
OF government extant, and that the past should
be forgotten while we cling to the shelter OF the
same old vine and FIG tree, away from kingly
mlsrule, where nothing can make us afraid.
he trusted that at no distant day Congress
would gently yield a system of recon struction
IN accordance with the wishes of a majority of
the people of the several Southern States TAts
agreeable interview, with one of the most dis
lnguished among the Generals of the late Con-
Iederacy, terminated much too soon.-N, Y
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