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s journey with not more than one hundred men. If Grant is whipped on land, however, he is always victorious on paper. We have sometimes wondered why he takes the trouble to fight at all. He can demolish armies with a stroke of his pen, and capture cities by a flash of the telegraph. Why not confine his exertions entirely to the composition of telegraphic dispatches? He succeeds far better at that than he does at fighting. Lee whipped him in at least ten battles, in Spotsylvania and Hanover; yet he continually flogs Lee on the wires.--He inflicts very little loss on Lee with his army, but he slaughters his men by the thousand with the telegraph. Where, then, is the use of fighting with any other weapon than the wires? If he can gain so many victories with that instrument, why cannot he take Richmond with it? If a telegraphic victory satisfy Lincoln and the rest of Yankeedom, we do not see why it should not satisfy Grant, since the applause of those interesting people is all

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