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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The steam ram question. (search)
Gen Scott's letter. The letter of General Scott to Mr. Seward, published in this paper of Friday, will go far to redeem the reputation of the old soldier for military wisdom and judgment, and to place his character in a snore amiable light than it has recently occupied.--This letter, written March 3, 1861, is, in its sagacity and general tone, far above anything that we ever conceived General Scott to be capable of, and groves him to have been, at the time of its writing, both a statesman and a soldier. He seems to have been the only man in the United States who at all appreciated the magnitude of the enterprise which Mr. Lincoln has since undertaken in endeavoring to subjugate the Southern States, and yet that even he underestimated its difficulties, is shown from the fact that, large as was the amount of treasure and force which, in his opinion, was necessary for Southern subjugation, that amount has been already quadrupled, and the United States is as far from its objects as