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roclamation that he had put an end to Secession in Western Virginia, and his more recent pronunciamento from Washington-- "Soldiers, we have seen our last defeat. No more defeats; no more retreats You stand by me, and I'll stand by you"--which had an immediate commentary in the fastest time ever made by the Yankees themselves, in that wonderful foot-race at Lewisville, and lately in the overwhelming rout at Leesburg. It is also more truthful than his report of the killed and wounded at Rich Mountain. And if he has done nothing to merit a sword, pray, what has he accomplished, to be made Lieutenant-General? It could be said at least of old Scott that he had enjoyed a great reputation, but McClellan is absolutely an unknown man. Nothing but a small success, achieved by the aid of tremendous odds, over a few hundred Virginians, in Western Virginia, has given him that prestige with the infatuated Yankee nation which has induced them to place him over the head of old officers of their