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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
More Magniloquence. The Washington correspondence of the New York journals inform the world that, in ten days, Gen.McClellan will be at the head of a hundred and fifty thousand wall-equipped man, and will resume offensive operations by the 1st of September. All this may be true, but it is not probable that letter-writers are admitted to the military secrets, or, if they are, the Generals are unfit for their position. McClellan may begin his operations in a few days, a few weeks, or a few months; he may choose Western Virginia, Winchester, the lower Potomac, or some other zig-zag mode of corkscrewing into the country, or resume the direct line forf of the Southern cause has been manifest and undeniable, and without whose aid no human skill and energies can prosper. We have no disposition to underrate Gen.McClellan's abilities, but he will find more than his equal in Johnston and Beauregard; and the hundred and fifty thousand men, even if not all men in buckram, will probab