The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-23
General Loriug.
1 TALK WITH HIN ABOUT royPy, rHE SOUTH,
AND HANCOCK.

mining interests. The General mas nau q
highy.variegated career. Al the age OF
fourteen he was volunteer lighting against
| the Scminoles IN his own State OF Florida.
| Immediately on becoming OF age he served
three years in the Legislature Of his State.
Then he secured commission In the
United States army and fought In Mexico,
losing his left arm there. lie commanded a
regiment In that war. lie remained In the
army till 1851, when he entered the Confed-
crate service, and held the commission OF
mslor.general. a few years after the war
closed he accepted an offer from
THE KHKDNE or EGYPT,
and for ten years held high command In
the army OF the successor of the Pharaobs.
A year or Two ago be abandoned the Nile
and returned 10 this country with compe.
tence, which he invested partly in silver
mines in The West and psrtly in orange Or
cbards In his own State.
The General Is above the usual height and
rather inclined 10 be porily. lie hes high
and very prominent forehead, full beard
trimmed rather closely, a very pleasant ex-
preston, and a sociable manner. Like most
gentlemen Of the army, there Is nothing
military In his appearance, excepting the
empty sleeve.
To reporter Of the Times or yesterday
General Loring said that for the past year
he had travelled extensively
Ia FLORIDA,
and was graiifed to find it remarkably pro-
gressive. He was surprised TO see how
thrifty the people were, ADD how prosper
Gus they were becoming. Everybody was
working, and the whites wero working
harder than The blacks. The two races
were living on the most amicable terms pos
sible, and the negroes were fast settling up
the southern and interior portion OF. the
State, and breaking in little farms. Many
OF the negroes were Democrats, and most OF
the northerners who were coming into the
Slate, and doing much for its prosperity,
became Democrats in a little while. Some
of the most active Florida Democrats were
northern men, who had been Republicans
in their old homes. The General believed
Florida was a Democratic Slate, and that
the Republicans would be unsuccessful In
their efforts to carry the State this fall.
THE NOMINATION OF HANCOCK
awakened enthusiasm all over The South.
The General was at Cincinnati, and had
friends in all OF the southern delegations,
and he found them all Of one opinion re-
garding The excellence OF the nomination.
The South felt the election OF Demo
cratic President TO be OF vital importance,
rather for defensive than for aggressive
reasons. The souherners didn't like the
national election laws, and they objected &c
the general tendency OF Republican legisla'
ton, but there was hardly man in The
South who wasn't delighted that secession
and slavery were rs dead as Julius Caesar
and il would be ditficuItt to find man soutl
OF Mason and DlXon's line who would re
surrect either il he had the power. Nobody
expected the southern war debt 10 be paid
or gave the matter single thought, eXcep
when some northern Republican paper
charged the South with demanding that The
. debt be paid. In regard 10
TIE RELATION OF THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY TIC
|, THE STATES.
the General hadn't heard word at tht
South, and didn't know what the feeling
was. In desiring the election oil Demo
cratic President the southerners were no
sctuated by rcacti0nary or revolutionary
ideas. They accepted the results OF the war
Unanimously they were for the Constl'u
= ton with all its amendments. But they
e were afraid OF efforts 10 restore carpet-bas
State governments, aud they were tiret
OF being told that they were not loyal, an(
) they felt that the constant agitation OF thu
: question OF loyalty, and the question OF TIL
relation of the races was disastrous 10 TIT
e interests O; the South and kept alive sec
: tionalism that was Injurious to the whole
I country. They were for letting well enough
alone, but they didn't trust the Rcpubli
cans.
The General believed that Democratic
, success would be for the good OF the ne
groes. Their relations TO the whites would
be more friendly when political agitation
ceased. and when they became Democrat
I they would be fairly treated in the matte
! Of offices. or course the Democrats would
give them no Offices while they remained
Republicans.
2 General Loring had known General Han
? cock ever since the early military eXpe
riences OF both men in Mexico.
Hx LATELY VISITED THE GENERAL,
Int had no political conversation with him
He knew nothing OF his opinions eXcep
that General Hancock had been Democra
;; all his life, aud had obtained his poitica
ideas when The only Democracy was OF tn
substantial, weIl-tried JacksoDian variety.
General Hancock, he said, was LIBERAL.
, endowed with sound "horse" sense, wa
an extensive reader, and close student
No man in the country was more likely thai
he TO make up his mind without assistance
and TO maintain position IN spite OF OppO
. si;iOn. He was a man OF clear and compre
= hensiye views and great strength OF cbarac
q ter.
:, Referring TO
HIS LIFE IN AGYPT,
Gen eral Loving said that DIR. Lansing an
/. the other American missionaries there wer
!. doing an immense amount OF good, not S
e much by converting as by educating th
: Deople. Their converts were not very nu
J.. nerous, but their twenty schools were hay
: ing a marked effect on the people, tbei
labors in behalf OF the education OF wome
being especially useful. The late Khedive'
anxiety TO have his people educated was
strong point in his favor, and his efforts I
7 improve the people generally by educatin
the women proved him to be man OF re
markable foresight, considering the Or
entail ideas OF women.