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Gen. Scott.
We have already given Gen. Scott's account of himself, which we are sorry to say shows that the Lieutenant General has not been a dull pupil in the school of mendacity at Washington, and that to his claim of being "the greatest coward in the world," he may add that of being the greatest story-teller, with the exception of James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley. It is established beyond all doubt that he is responsible for the invasion of Virginia, in every particular of when, where and how, and that he was as certain of a crushing victory at Manassas as he was of his own existence.
The whole military skill and resources of the United States Government were placed at his disposal and were used by him under a full sense of the vast importance of the result.
We have long been among the few who have been skeptical of Gen. Scott's claims to greatness, and the manner in which he has quibbled and shuffled, and played the theatrical since this grand defeat, shows that he i