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Looking at the contest from a distance.
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"If the Federals were not blind with fury, they would now see what all Europe has seen from the beginning. Looking at the contest from a distance, we cannot so much as imagine on what calculations the President's government can now expect to accomplish its objects, or on what grounds they can justify their prosecation of the war. Twelve months ago they commenced, not in haste, but with great deliberation, and after a rude and costly lesson, their preparations for the realities of the struggle brfore them. What this struggle implied they first learnt from their defeat at B ill's Run. That reverse taught them that the suppression of the rebellion was not the work of a week or two for an army of ignorant volunteers. They saw then what the war would require, and they made no secret of their convictions. They acknowledged openly that the subjection of the South would demand the organisation of powerful forces, and these forces they proceeded to raise and discipline. They called for hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and in those days the soldiers came. President Lincoln got every man and gun that he asked for, and these immense levies were placed under the coinicaud of a popular and promising general to train at his leisure. How linle M Glellau was hurried in his operations we need not say. Nobody can have forgotten the mouths that he spent, probably with great prudence, on the drill and discipline which might impart to his new levies the qualities of an army. The best pait of a year passed before he could be indued to leave his parade ground, and begin the work on which he was set. At last he did move, and what »c beg our readers to remember is the army with which he then advanced was the real grand army of the North. It is curious indeed, to reflect how very little we know of those forces which fought the battles of the West. We first heard of desultory combats in Kentucky and Tennessee, then of more extensive operations on the Missouri border, and finally of two large armies manoeuvring against each other on the Mississippi. But the Feferal army which was so severly handled at Corinth never seemed to draw for either men or muntions on the immediate resources of the Fedreal Government...