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ern press to inflame the Northern mind to its present frenzy, which howls every day for blood, which, if sanguine vary words could take off heads like an axe, would surpass in one day all the achievements of the guillotine during the French Revolution, has not contributed a single man to the entertainment of shell, shot, bayonet and cannon, to which it has so persistently urged its countrymen. Its editors, secure from the approach of war, spend their days in heaping victims upon the altar of Mars, and their nights in devotions at the shrine of Bacchus. The same is true, as far as our knowledge extends, of every single Republican and Abolition newspaper in the whole North. Where is Raymond, of the Times, who promised that Richmond should be taken ere this, by two well-appointed armies, each consisting of twenty-five thousand men, one marching from Alexandria, and the other from Old Point, "to which an army could be easily transported from James river?" Oh, marvellous hero of the quad