The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-07

The Convention of the Metropolitan dis
trict reflected the wishes OF the people not
only OF that district, but of the whole State,
in nominating General Joseph E. Johnston.
His election will rive pleasure to the people
OF the whole South-aye, Of the whole
country. The first Of living soldiers, his
whole career, in war and peace. is without
q stain. His convention with General
Sherman proves thGt he is statesman, as
we'll as a soldier. Its ratification would
have relieved the people OF the South OF
woes unnumbered, and it failed OF ratitica-
ton only in consequence OF the unhappy
and untimely death Of Mr.. Lincoln. Gene
raj Johnston is intuS Ell In cute Nirginan,
and be will carry into Congress reputation
that will give him influence with represen-
tatiyes from every section OF the country !;
while his devotion to duty, rarely equalled
and never surpassed, must satisfy all that
his influence will be patrioticaly directed
Halifax Record.
The Washington Post says that Radical
politicians are trying to make campaign
capital by asserting that General Joseph
T.. Johnston's service in the Confederate
army gained him his nomination for Con-
rress.' We don't know how much Of truth
or falsehood there is in the statement ;
but if it be literally true, what Of it? a
gallant soldier is always popular man, and
will always be an available candidate. The
same reasons that make the eX.otlicers OF
the Union army popular at the North make
the ex-Confederates popular at the South.
The northern soldiers would deSpise the
southern people il they were base enough
to be ungratefu to the men who fought i'll
their Misunderstanding PoSt.
We throw up our hats and shout hurrah
when we hear that General Joseph Z. John
ston is the nominee OF the Richmond Con-
vention to represent the Third district IN
Congress. The nomination is one OF ines
timable credit to the people OF that district,
and will meet with the endorsement and
congratulations OF the whole United States.
He will reflect the highest honor to the
State, and command the esteem and respect
OF Congress entire, and the compliment to
the old hero is but particle OF the graft.
tude the country owes to so great and good
a nan.-Abingdon Standard.
General Joseph Johnston yesterday pub.
lished his letter accepting the congressional
nomination in the Third district 1t Is Il
brief but frank and manly statement OF his
views on the questions involved in the cam
yass. He announces himself 10 be Demo
crat and places himself sqHarely on the
Democratic platform. His position in
regard to greenbacks and national banks
conform TO the views expressed by Senator
Thurman.-Pstersburg Post.
In the Third, or Richmond, district Cen
eral Joseph +. Johnston has been nomi-
mated by the Conservatives as their candl-
date for Congress. The old hero will OF
course be elected, and we doubt not will
make capital representative. The people
OF the whole country, and the South espe-
cially, are fortunate in having added to Its
congressional list another incorruptible pa.
triot. -Lees6urg Wash,ngtonian.
General Joseph E. Johnston's is the hon
ored name inscribed on the standard OF the
party in the Metropolitan district, and we
trust that 1t will suffer no diminution Of its
lustre in the canvass OF. at the polls, but that
the people OF that district will honor them
selves and the State by his unanimous cleo
tion.-Amherst Enterprise.
The Conservative Convention for thu
Third (Richmond) district nominated Gen
eral Joseph E. Johnston for Congress OIL
"Wednesday. The old Confederate herr
should be triumphant!y elected.-Clark
/. Courier.