... aid, resists with a natural diabolism. If it were left to itself, without foreign support, it would soon cease, under the assaults of the national government. The President, on his return from General Grant 's headquarters, told me that the general, who is a man of very few words, said to him: I am as far off from Richmond now as I ever shall be. I shall take the place; but as the rebel papers say, it ma...