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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], New Orleans banks. (search)
s not end with the meagre force called out in the beginning. The chief mischief has resulted from the short period fixed for the service of the new levies. To expect to subdue the South with seventy-five thousand raw militia, and to accomplish the work in less than three months, was certainly a blunder for which General Scott may blush. The restless temper of Maryland was another circumstance left out of consideration in the first call for troops. It is found that with all the aid of Hicks' treachery, and of a large submission party in that State, it requires half the seventy-five thousand men first demanded to hold Washington in security, and to overawe Maryland. Add to this fact the embarrassment which the three months term of service stipulated for in the beginning has occasioned, and it may very safely be surmised why Gen. Scott has not yet invaded Virginia. Gen. Scott is not ready. The illustrious old peacock boasted a few weeks ago, that he was "ten days ahead of Davi