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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Signs of the times. (search)
ernment held Fort Pickens, well manned, but in reach of its guns permitted the Confederates to entrench and fortify, and they could now take it if they chose. The Government allowed an army and a brave commander, numbering 8,000, to be overrun by one of three times the force in Missouri without reinforcements. The Government allowed an army of 15,000 fresh troops to come down from Winchester and stock the cards upon the "Grand Army," when there was a stronger force near Winchester, under Patterson, which never tried to engage the Confederate force there. The Government has a navy--a navy which, in other wars, was the nation's chief means of defence, and a terror to the enemy. This navy is doing worse than nothing — not even rendering the blockade efficient. Nowhere along the extended coast of rebellion has this navy ever struck a blow. We believe this is all owing to the imbecility of the Government. A few days or weeks more will decide whether the Federal Government is abl