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lace to those who will. For ourselves, being profoundly ignorant of the science of war, we are not able to gaze into a mill-stone with the piercing vision of those war-hawks who are looking down contemptuously from the peaceful roosts of private life upon the camp and battle-field. We are not able to see that the military operations of our Generals have been a failure. We can see that the military operations of the North have failed, because they undertook to capture Richmond by the 20th July, and they are no nearer the object now than they were when they first crossed the Potomac. But have the Southern Generals undertaken to do what they have not accomplished? They undertook to defend the South from subjugation. Have they failed in that? They undertook to hold and maintain a line of defence which would render the capital of Virginia secure. Have they failed in that? They undertook to hold the important key of Manassas, and has that been wrested from their hands? They nev