and pompous ways.  Why I have no idea that Gen Burnside or Fremont or even old Abe could put on half such airs. & then we have but little confidence in him.  These are some of the reasons why I have been some what discouraged, it seemed Just like this, a farmer, employs a man who he supposes to be competent & faithful, to oversee a distant farm.  He goes to his post & employs a number of hands to work & keeps an appearance of doing his duty, he has his men runing here & there doing but little if anything to advantage, but on the contrary eating up the substance of their employer.  The agent all the time deceiving his employer by "strategic moves"! into the belief that he is a verry good man, so it has been with us, it has always seemed to me until lately that we were undergoing all these hardships & privations to no purpose only to fill the pockets of these government leeches.  But I think now unless there is a disgraceful retrograde movement that the prospect of doing something to break up this most wicked of all wick rebellion is favorable, we certainly will march on Little Rock as fast as we can
