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and Fort Clinch have been given to us. * * * * * I take great pleasure in reminding the Department that the principal and ultimate object of the naval expedition which I have the honor to command, was, in its first conception, to take and keep under control the whole line of the seacoast of Georgia, "knowing," to use the language of the original paper, "that the naval power that controls the seacoast of Georgia controls the State of Georgia." The report that the fortifications at St. Simons, armed with heavy columbiads, had been abandoned, which first reached me at Port Royal, is confirmed. This being the case, the entire seacoast of Georgia is now either actually in my possession, or under my control, and thus the views of the Government have been accomplished. Very resp'y, your most obd't serv't, S. F. Dupont, Comd'g South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. To Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of Navy, Washington. Black Republican opinion of "the situation." The Washin