...said to Mr. Blair that there was a Brutus who would brook the eternal devil as easily as a king in Rome; and he was that Brutus in Richmond. Meanwhile the war goes on with converging forces. Mr. Stanton was with me yesterday, and gave me fully his expectations. He thinks that peace can be had only when Lee's army is beaten, captured, or dispersed; and there I agree with him. To that end all our mi...