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tupidity or traitorous reluctance. We know, from authority which is unquestionable, that it was originally no part of Gen. Scott's plans to commence the offensive at this time, because careful calculation of the period requisite for preparation had satisfied him that to do the thing properly, we should not be ready to act in Eastern Virginia before September. He know the force of the enemy better than the public, and even when at last compelled to succumb to the pressure, and order Gen. MeDowell to advance, he did it, we are persuaded, against his own judgment. [From the Philadelphia Inquires.] When the history of the conflict comes to be written by the dispassionate historian, the causes of our defeat may be summed up briefly in a few words. Masked batteries, in-experienced officers, the unaccountable and unobstructed escape of Johnston's column from the upper Potomac, and the wild and fanatical clamor of the Tribune and its allies for an unseasonable advance; these