...be relieved with a less force than 20,000 men, sends forth an armada of four or five vessels, and less than one-fourth of the number of men required to insure success. In disregarding the advice of Gen. Scott , President Lincoln has entailed upon the country the disgrace of a defeat in the first onset. But the past is past, and cannot be recalled. As a choice between two evils, we would have preferre...