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Dictatorship with McClellan seems to dawn upon the horizon; the smallest disaster-Burnside, ah!-will precipitate the catastrophe. I pray to G.o.d (and for the first time) that I may be mistaken.
Footnote 1: That such would have been the presumed fate of Ney at the hands of Napoleon, I was afterwards a.s.sured by the old Duke of Ba.s.sano, and by the d.u.c.h.ess Abrantes.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 2: Foremost among them was the editor of the New York Times, publishing a long article wherein he proved that he had been admitted to General Scott's table, and that the General unfolded to him, the editor, the great anaconda strategy. Exactly the thing to be admired and gulped by a man of such variegated information as that individual.
That little villianish "article" had a second object: it was to filch subscribers from the Tribune, which broke down, not over courageously.[Back to Main Text]
