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, by some miraculous process, he had been able to foresee precisely what occurred. And is it not a most curious coincidence that, supposing he were fool enough to attempt an impossibility, the result should have proved it the highest wisdom; that two gunboats should run the gauntlet of the most formidable batteries on the American continent, and that the batteries should permit the gunboats to do as they pleased? It is much easier to suppose that the commander of the gunboats know that his vessels would not be resisted, and that he expected to be supported by a land force taking New Orleans in rear, which the destruction of Fort Pike, which commands the passage between Lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain, rendered entirely practicable. Altogether, it is a great mystery, involving a disaster so heavy that if the public can permit it to become a nine day's wonder, they can look with the most philosophic composure upon the sinking of the whole Southern Confederacy into the Gulf of Mexico.