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The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Secretary Welles on Admiral Dupont. (search)
Secretary Welles on Admiral Dupont. --Secretary Weltes is not always as placid as has been believed in a letter to Admiral Dupont, published in correspondence submitted to Congress, he thus walks into the Administration. Your prompt abandonment of the harbor of Charleston after a brief attack; your disinclination to occupy the harbor; your declaration that the monitors could not remain there with safety; your doubts and misgivings in relation to those vessels; your opposition to a naval attack; your omission to suggest or devise any system of naval proceed age; your constant complaints; the distrust that painfully pervaded your correspondence; your distressing personal anxiety about yourself, that seemed to overshadow public duty; your assaults upon editors instead of assaults upon rebel batteries; your neglect of any reconnaissance of the harbor obstructions; or if such was ever made, your neglect to inform the Department of the fact! These, with quornions and conscious ch