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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Condition of the Federal Army in Texas. (search)
ere is a necessity for the U. S. Government to arm and man a fort on the Potomac River and keep up and increase an army of a thousand regulars at Washington, and none for Virginia to throw up a single outwork, or put a single company in the field to defend its soil? No effort, says the Washington correspondent of the Examiner, will be left untried to pacify Virginia, so as to give time for the Government to accumulate its resources, to make Old Point impregnable, and thus have the State of Virginia so controlled at all the strategic points that she cannot move, and a sufficient number of troops to move rapidly on to Richmond and seize the Armory, powder, arms and munitions of war. The following extracts show that under the velvety professions of peace, the claws of the tiger are beginning to move: "The policy of Seward is to gain time. Gen. Scott does not like to undertake a general war without collecting all his resources, and getting in from the frontier as many troops a