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plan had been secretly maturing Secrecy as well as promptness$, it will be understood, was indispensable here to success. To keep the secret, it had been necessary to confide it to few persons; and hence had arisen one great cause for jealousy of the general. Be this as it may, as the day of action drew near, those who suspected the general's project and were angry at not being informed of it — those whom his promotion had excited to envy,--his political enemies (who is without them in America?)--in short, all those beneath or beside him who wished him ill,--broke out into a chorus of accusations of slowness, in-action, incapacity. McClellan, with a patriotic courage which I have always admired, disdained these accusations, and made no reply. He satisfied himself with pursuing his preparations in laborious silence. But the moment came in which, notwithstanding the loyal support given him by the President, that functionary could no longer resist the tempest. A council of war o