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General Lee's opinion.

--The Lynchburg Virginian has seen a letter from a prominent gentleman, who was in Richmond a few days since, which states that General Lee remarked to a friend that "he saw and appreciated the difficulties surrounding us, but he was hopeful and confident; that any compromise now would prove but a truce or an armistice, and would be an unmanly shrinking from present duties, and entailing upon our children trials which we should meet and overcome."

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