The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-11-30
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
Gen. Hoe JOhnssOn's Views on
.r the Situation. r.
WAS in .ton Post, No, 1877


of the Post was accorded an inter
view by Gen. Joseph. E. Johnston.
who will represent the metropolitan
iistricr Of Virginia in the next Con
gress. A painful Thought not seii-
pus accident, resulting in hrnised
knee, ut present confines the General
TO his modest residence on Grace
street. in the city of RichmOnd; but.
aside from this, his more than three
score aud ten years have left BIN
straight as an arrow and rs full of
vitality us many II man OF fifty Years.
There has been such a cry already
raised by the vindictive Radicals of
? the terrible disasters to be brought
upon the country by "a solid South,
that the views of Gen. Johnston,
who will naturally be a leader, will
have an interest for the people uf all
parties Replying IT, a question as
70 the probable financial policy OF
the Southern Representatives, the
General said s sr3
Speaking first for myself, am
nnalterahly for honrst money. IL
nv views were otherwise could not
have stood upon the platform u:sm
which was elected. Upon this
question | stand with the Intelligent
and patiiotic ut the South, Wild
are not b" be delu,led 10y fiat sophis;s
tries. The war taught us the vatut'
of u currency Whose. issue was iilimi-
fable, and God knows we are now
too lH,or to try repetition OF the
experiment"
"What is your opinion Of the at
titusle that the Southern majority
will assnme'il shaping the policy OF
the party T.
"Without any advice at all upon
the question. I will venture to say
that the attitude of the gentlemen
from the Southern States will be such
as 10 disaPl~iat the irreconcils6lcs
of the opposition, who have. ! see.
already begun an effort t0 array a
solid NORTH against n solid South.
We win probably have little TO say
in reply to Radicals of this stamp.
Oar acts will spe,,s more emphati-
cally for It's. SectiOialism WAS killed
last Tuesday, and long before 1880
the "soli,l south aud the s'snli,l
North viii be forgotten tert,fs. The
people of the. Spnth have known for
thirteen years that the war was at
an end: bnt these !nng- range Rail-
calls and laticr-d;ty warriors cannot,
seemingly, be brought tosa realiza-
ton .of this fact. The revival of the
charges that it is our settled policy
to saddle the war debt of the Con-
tedcracy npon the country is absurd
so aud it passes nv
conprt hension how any Intelligent
reader can receive such reckless in
ventiobs with patience. The South
is now as cluse part of the Union
at il New England; Virgins has the
same interest in the generally pros
perity ut the country as Msssachu-
sets, and her Representatives, and
the Representative OF the South,
will he found to be as active III sup
port of all measures tending to the
general gond OF all sections of the
country as the gentlemen from Yer
mont or Maine. $50
"Generil. what Ia xour opiui,n Of
the future of the GreenUaek party
ia Virginia or the South fnG1aet
They have Dp future, sir. They
we're buried beyond hope of resur-
rectipn an the fifth, aud deservedly
SO. Here in Virginia they had no
principle. The corner stone of their
hopes was laid in dishonesty and
their doom WAS foreorslained. To
their scheme for piehald currency
they added here the policy ef repu-
diation of the State debt, aud
though Consressmen can have no
share ia the settlement of that ones
ton, still the election of their candi-
dates would have been hailed as "A
signal victory for the Iepudiatinnists.
But, to the credit of Virginia. they
have failed signally. aud the world
will now understand that we will
meet or honest obligations"
In the closing nIomen = oi the in
view the conversation turned upon
the probable course of the Southern
delegation regarding the Speaker
ship; and while Gen. Johnston de
clinrd to commit himself. thus early,
tie tenor of his remarks left the
that the sentiment of the
South would favor the election of
~ Northern Democrat. The Gen
erai said in 80 many words that that
would DC the wisest course to fUliow.