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an essential service to mankind. In this sense Dr. Vinton is the greatest benefactor of whom humanity can boast. He has overthrown every military reputation that ever existed, in a single lecture. He shows that when Hannibal piled the field of Cannæ with the bodies of 80,000 Romans he was ignominiously defeated. He shows that Pompey, and not Cæsar, was victorious at Pharsalia. He shows that the Russians and Austrians conquered at Austerlitz, and that Wellington was beaten at Waterloo. We . They can never be made, we very much apprehend, to believe that flight means victory, or that pursuit means defeat. In spite of his unanswerable logic, they will obstinately persist in believing that the Roman Republic was nearly overthrown at Cannæ, and that the French Empire was prostrated at Waterloo. As the Yankees wish to possess our country, and as they certainly will not get it by running, we see not what besides glory they are to derive from this new definition of victory. The stoi