Crushing.
Poor Rosecrans, in a late Cincinnati speech, gabbles, like so many of his delirious predecessors, about "crushing the rebellion." Like McClellan, and others who have used that phrase, the rebellion has crushed him, instead of his crushing the rebellion. There has been a good deal of "crushing" since the war commenced, but it has been of Yankee Generals, who, from Scott to Rosecrans, have been squeezed as flat as a pancake, whilst the rebellion is alive and more vigorous than ever.
