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General Johnston--great as they are known to be — could have extricated it from its perilous position. And in precisely such a position should we be now had Gen. Lee halted a second time at Manassas. The movement which Gen. Lee has now made is bold, but it is sagacious, and justified by the highest military authorities. There are precedents enough in its favor, and perhaps we shall be excused for citing two or three of them. In the Italian campaign of 1800, while the Austrian General Melas was engaged in the siege of Genoa, the First Consul Bonaparte led an army through Switzerland, over the great St. Bernard, down the valley of the Dora Baltea, and took possession of all Lombardy, and the greater part of Piedmont, in his rear. He then crossed the Po, cut off his retreat to Germany, intercepted his supplies, destroyed his communications, and forced him to fight the fatal battle of Marengo, in such a position that while fighting he was facing his own country instead of hav