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Gen. Scott's miserable subterfuges to escape the responsibility of Manassas are unworthy a great mind. He shows that he thinks more of preserving his own military reputation than of the truth and honor which are the brightest ornaments of a soldier's character. His mortification must be intense, but that is no apology for the undignified and unmanly shifts he resorts to for soothing his wounded pride. Hitherto, he has boasted that he never lost a battle; but he never was engaged in one before on a grand scale. It is clear that he cannot handle large bodies of men — an operation which requires a real General! The world has found him out at last, and so, crimson with rage and gobbling out great swelling words of vanity and falsehood, the demented old turkey cock disappears from the scene of public affairs.

The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 9, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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