Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-19
Gen. Joe Johnston interviewed.

Gen. Joe Johnston interviewed.
Washington Post, lith.l
RICHMOND, VA, November l3.-
Late last evening a representative of
the Post was accorded an interview by
General Joseph Il. Johnston, who will
represent the metropolitan district Of
Virginia in the next congress. A
painful though not serious accident,
resulting in a bruised knee, at present
confines the general to his modest res
idence on Grace street, in the city OF
Richmond but, aside from this, his
more than threescore and ten years
have left him straight as an arrow and
as full of vitality as many a man of
fifty wears. There has been such a
cry already raised by the yindietive
Radicals of the terrible disasters to be
brought upon the country by a solid
South. that the views of General
Johnston. who will naturally be a
leader. will have an interest for people
of all parties. Replying to a question
as to the probable financial policy OF
the Southern representatives, the gen
eral said:
Speaking first for myself, | am
unalterably for honest money, If my
views we're otherwise / could not have
stood upon the platform upon which
was elected. Upon this question ]
stand with the intelligent and patri-
otto men of the South, who are not to
be deluded By fat sophistries. The
war taught US the value Of a currency
whose issue was illimitable, and God
knows We are now too poor to try
repetition Of the experiment.
What Is your opinion of the attl-
tude that the Southern majority vii
assume in shaping the policy Of the
party?
Without any advice at all upon
{ the question. | viii venture to say
that the attitude of the gentlemen
1 from the Southern States will be suei
as to disappoint the irreeoncilables 0
i the opposition. who have, | see, al
ready begun an effort to array a solil
North against a solid South. w
will probably have little to say in re
ply to radicals Of this stamp. Gu
acts viii speak more emphatically 70
us. Sectionalism was killed las
Tuesday. and long before 1880 tn
solid South and the solid North
will be forgotten terms. The peopl
of the South have known for thrice
years that the wal was at an end, bu
these long range radicals and latter
day warriors cannot, seemingly, b
| brought to a realization Of this fact
The revival Of the charges that 1t j
our settled policy 10 saddle the wa
/, debt of the ConfeGeracy upon tn
country is absurd-contemptibly So
and Il passes my comprehension no.
any intelligent reader can receive sue
reckless inventions with patienc.
/. The South is now as close a part Of I'll
Union as is New England Virgin.
has the same interest in the generi
+ prosperity Of the country as Mass.
r chusetts and her Representatives, an
/ the Representatives Of the South wi
? be found to be as active in support
all measures tending to the gener
Z good Of all actions of the country
' the gentlemen from Maine or We
mont.
General, what is your opinion
r the future Of the GFeonback party
Virginia or the South?"
h ''They have no future, sir. TIL,
r we've buried beyond hope of resurre
% ton Oh the 9TH, and d~eservedly s
Here in Virginia they had no principl
II The cornerstone OF their hopes "
IS laid in dishonesty and their doom W
foreordained. To their scheme for
II piebald currency they added here Il
policy Of repudiation of the State del
y and though congressman can have
IN share in the settlement of that qut
al ton, still the election Of their can,
dates would have been hailed as a S
nal victory for the FepqdIationis
F.. But, to the credit Of Virginia, d
rs have failed signally, and the world v
II now understand that we will meet
n honest obligations.
In the closing moments of the int
Err view the conversations turned upon
no probable course Of The SQqtkatn d.
cation regarding the speakership q
~ while General Johnston declined
commit himself thus early the tenor
To- his remarks len the clear impress
that the sentiment Of the EsRth wor
OF, be in favor Of the election of Nor
IS ern Democrat. The general said
not so many words that that woaid he
WiEest course to follow.
Mr.. Dana has retired. The respl