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ads. The Republic has been prodigal of the lives of her sons on these lines, but has been stingy of the means of sustaining them in their remote positions, and therefore has failed. It is notorious that the Pierpoint Government exists in Trans Allegheny to-day, only because the State has neglected to provide access for her troops to her own frontier, to which an active and intelligent enemy has uncontested transit by land and water. Cæsar held Gaul, Napoleon held Italy, and Austria holds Lombardy and Venice, by roads as well as arms; while Virginia, in defiance of all experience, looses half her territory by the stupid and disastrous experiment of Lasser faire. By its means the people are estranged; their trade and attachments belong to the enemy, and their territory is neither a province nor a portion of the empire of the State, except on paper. No State before ever attempted to govern and defend what it could not reach, or so defied interest, safety, and example, in its blind aba