. . . edited by John Forsyth, is not any longer disposed to
undervalue the power of the Government of the United States. The tendency of the secesh mind is just now
rather to exaggerate than depreciate the force brought into the field to crush
the rebellion. An article from the
Register on “the Activeness,” is before us, in which the following passage
occurs:
We must make up our minds to bear a certain amount of
disaster. It is impossible that such a
war as this should be a career of uninterrupted successes. We are
engaged with an enemy who marshals the most majestic military strength that
modern times have witnessed. He
assails us along land and coast frontiers of near five thousand miles in
extent. It is impossible that our
government should have the means or the prescience to make every post
impregnable which the foe may choose to select for an assault with overwhelming
force?
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 1
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