Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTE. The writer is perfectly aware that his little pamphlet on the " Of The Potomac And Its Mismanagement," was a very unpopular and unwelcome exposition of a fatal truth. But he did not write, and does not now write for popularity. He is in pursuit of no man's or party's favor or patronage. Our country is sinking, not beneath the strength of the rebellion, but under the heavier hand of Military Incapacity. Foreign governments begin to interfere in American affairs ; to enforce their own wills on a neighboring Republic, and to dictate their wishes to us. We are fast losing our proud position; and he who would pause to think of his own popularity in such an hour of peril, would be unworthy of the loftiest privilege that a man, in this age, can enjoy—the right to assert his claim to be A Citizen or The Fkee American Eepublic. The writer offers his thanks to all those who have given him assurances of their appreciation of his previous feeble effort to uphold the honor of the flag by the only means left open to his exertions—teaching him, as their kind letters do, that the patriotism of his country is not dead, though that of our great and gallant Army has been, and if still, most cruelly stifled. Georgetown, D. C., February 6, 1862. chapter{Section 4MILITARY INCAPACITY. Georgetown, D. C., February 6, 1862. The Memorial of a loyal citizen to the Congress of the United States, respectfully represents: That It is Military Incapacity at the head of our Army that has enabled a rebellious population of four or five millions of people, without a recognized government, or naval power, or foreign commerce, or pretended skill in the arts, to set at defiance the entire military and naval resources of a brave, enterprising, and patriotic population of more than twenty...