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resist him but old men and children — that we have robbed the cradle and the grave to make up an army. All this is very witty, and very severe, no doubt; but wit and sarcasm are not useful in the capture of cities; and that is what is required of General Grant just at this moment. His friend and admirer, Sawney Bennett, said, when General Johnston retreated from Manassas, that his whole force did not amount to one thousand men. And yet that same force hunted his sometime favorite, McClellan, like a deer, all around this city, and left him panting and shivering behind his breastworks, and under the projection of his gunboats, twenty-five miles below the city. We cannot understand why Grant chooses to draw such a despicable picture of our army, seeing that it is the same which flogged him so often and so severely last summer. If he should plead that the men are not the same, and that he killed off all our last summer's heroes, then he ought to see that, according to his o