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rosecution of the war by land, and making the blockade so effectual that no vessel of the enemy can obtain ingress or egress from any harbor, bay, creek or inlet from the Chesapeake to the Rio Grande. They should demand of the President, as they have not only the right but the duty to do, that more honesty and energy should be infused in the War and Navy Departments, and men of talents and statesmanship placed at their head. The country has already lost enough through the imbecility of one Welles, at the head of the Navy Department. We have been long enough disgraced in the eyes of the world, having twenty-two millions sustaining the Government, contending with less than eight millions, and at the same time sending out armies one-third of the numbers against us. The Secretary of War, in his message to Congress, stated that he had accepted three hundred and ten thousand troops and rejected as many more. Where are those troops ? They certainly were not at Big Bethel, nor has ther