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The Objectionable paragraph.
--The following is probably the paragraph which has provoked, the sentence of banishment of Mr. Cropsey, the Inquirer army correspondent.
It occurs in a letter from the correspondent in question, dated Mongohick, May 27th:
"Let me break the thread of narrative and say a word of Meade's position.
He is as much the commander of the Army of the Potomac as he ever was. Grant plans and exercises a supervisory control over the army, but to Meade belongs everything of detail.
He is entitled to great credit for the magnificent movements of the army since we left Brandy, for they have been directed by him. In battle he puts troops in action and controls their movements; in a word, he commands the army.
General Grant is here only because he deems the present campaign the vital one of the war, and wishes to decide on the spot all questions that would be referred to him as general-in-chief.
"History will record, but newspapers cannot, that on one e