The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-26
GEN. ]. E. JOHNSTON FOR GRANT.

| AL CndTlOGlcSVllle TISSUES y uu2e
VIM. S. Robinson, q prominent
Lawyer, formerly member of tile
Virginia Court of Appeals, and in
olden times q politician of eminence.
He was included in the last amnesty
bill passed by Congress. He is the
leader of the anti-Greeley move
ment in the conservative party OF
the State. In his wake follow such
men as Colonel Mosby, John w.
Jackson, of Fluvanna, John Hars
mer Gilmer, of Richmond, Ex-Gov.
Henry A. Wise, and others, not too
numerous to mention, but of equal
prominence. OF these gentlemen,
Messrs. Mosby, Jackson and Gill
mer may be counted on as ardent
and actual supporters of the Grant
and Wilson ticket. They will not
only vote for it, but work for it,
but will doubtless carry a sufficient
number of their friends with them
to make q significant mark in the
final result. Judge Robinson's pol
icy, however, is of the passive char
acter. I am not at liberty to tell
you the details of the programm o
in its entirety, but when the boilers
become organized, or rather after
the Baltimore Convention, you will
see that the Southern opposition to
Greeley is as Mosby has character
lied, ga small hill in q nutshell"
but the explosion may not injure
any one. Judge Robiuson's pres
ent position is that the electoral
vote of Virginia shall go to the
Electoral College without iustruc-
ton. All the Southern States may
be advised to follow Firginia's ex-
ample in this respect. When the
vote is taken in the college, the
electors being untrammeled, will
embrace the opportunity to do as
they please. No doubt there Is an
occult design in all this to gain for
the South the credit of making the
next President, be he Greeley,
Grant or somebody else; but the
outlook now is against Greeley,
SO far as this ombination is con-
cerned. Gen. Joseph. Ed ohnston of
Confederate fame, with Col. Mosby
and others, whose names we did
not learn, had consultations with
Judge Robinson last week, at which
this proposition was submitted. 1t
did not meet their approval, how
ever, and during the interviews
which followed General Johnston
| disclosed the fact that he had been
in correspondence with Montgom-
cry Blair regarding Mr.. Greeley.
| From his statements 1t seems that
Blair wrote to Johnston, requesting
HIM to be present at the Baltimore
| Convention, TO urge the indorse-
ment of the Cincinnati movement.
In the course of the argument to
induce Johnston to act lin Greeley's
behalf, Blair predicted that the
Sage of Chappaqus would sweep
the country as Harrison did IN 1910.
General Johnston's reply was curt
and characteristic. lie said that he
was not q Greeley man, and an
nounced his intention to vote for
Grant. He promised Blair, howey-
er, that if Greeley would follow
Harrison's example, and die within
a month after his inauguration, he
would advocate his election, The
result of the conference was not
satisfactory to any of the parties
interested.
Everywhere throughout the state
similar indications of hesitation,
determination and Vacillation are
to be found, After a fortnight's
trip, during which I have seen and
conversed with people of every
shade and condition, whose views
are plainly set forth in the forego-
ing specimen bricks. 1 reach the
conclusion that Virginia is not as
certain for Greeley as many sup
pose. 1t is not impossible that
magnify the opposition to him but
/ do not overrate the support which
Grant will receive in q negative
way from the passive policy OF
those who are not satisfied with
him, yet not satisfied with Greeley.
I-[Virginia Correspondence to the
/ Cincinnati Commercial