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see. At present there seems no immediate prospect of an advance of the enemy from the Tennessee river. The transfer of Grant to the North Virginia Department is in some respects an indication of a recently concocted programme for one more vigorous grasp after the Capital of the Confederacy. --It such be the case, the doom of the great Ulysses is near at hand, and his political and military death inevitable. He will surely go the way of all the famous leaders of that atmosphere, from McClellan to Meade, and bring his somewhat remarkable career of fortunate accident to a woefully disgraceful conclusion. Richmond cannot be taken. It the North has not been taught that lesson often enough, the book is still open, and the men and the Commander are there to converse them, with an other sound thrashing of the futility of that very absurd enterprise. On all sides we are better prepared for defence, and in a better condition for the aggressive, that at the beginning of any previou
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as been at times during the last three years. Would not any other nation on earth, in consideration of the pitiful results of their vast preparations, hang their heads in shame? The Yankee talent for amplification, however, does not confine its operations to boasting of its own numbers. These beaten, they invariably discover that they have been outnumbered by five or six to one. Liare should have good memories. How is it possible for a people so inferior in numbers, upon the whole, to bring five to their one upon any one field of battle? The pompous proclamations of Yankee newspapers at the beginning of a campaign never did frighten the Confederates. They have long since ceased even to amuse them. If Grant is the great General they represent, they know perfectly well that they said quite as much of McClellan, and are prepared to say as much again of the next idol whom it may please them to place in the niche which he will certainly leave vacant before the 4th of July.