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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Russell's last letters to the London times. (search)
t to be disturbed by reverses or battles.-- "No Confederates have crossed into Maryland, that we are aware of." "There has been, we hear, some skirmishing at Leesburg, of which we have no particulars." The rumors of batteries closing the river have reached the Department, but we are not quite ready to give them credence. These and such euphemisms are the powerful mantlets by which officials resist the musketry of questions and the riflemen of the press. The spirit of the North--Why Gen. McLellan does not move. Washington, Oct. 25. --There is no use in giving advice to an angry man. The North is very angry just now, and all the counsels which are addressed to it from Europe in the interests of moderation and peace are disregarded, or employed to incite it to fury as affording proof that the great Powers are determined to interfere with the blockade, or that their sympathies are with the South. It is certainly difficult for the North, or for the Government of the United S