Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-12-16
CAUSES o. THE cosrINuArIoa or WARS il
THE WORLD

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1t has. been too much the practice of histo.
rians to dwell on the bright points Of war I'm
I'll sthc pomp and circumstance of glorious
war has passed into poets by-word. BY
bright points here, mean those which appear
such to the weak and ignorant. for to all 9th.
ers war has no bright points. 4 Conquerors and
kings, and the instruments of kings, be thev
generals or statesman, have spread ravage and
desolstion over the earth, and recorded theft
fame in characters of blood. And poets and
historians have sought immortality in records
more horrible even than these, for, by dwelling
upon the bright points, by bringing forward
the gaudy equipage. the gorgeous drapery, sthe
pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war
land throwing into the shade its horrible and
lrevolting features, they had tended to keep up
the scourge,. to perpetuate the curse, 10 carry
down the degradation through all ages, through
all generations of the earth. Upon the former
the curse which they dealt out to mankind will
return. and rest forever upon their unhallowed
and blood stained name; but it is the latter that
will be visited with the highest measure of pun4
ishment and upon them most assuredly will fall
the deepest execration of their species.-Let
any man, elevated ever SO little by knowledge
and civilization above the brutes, fix his atten-
ton upon the following picture, and say if he
jecting himself and all that is dear to him to
$50 frightful a destiny. The detail is ;horri-
BILE, but it must not, and shall NOT, be passed
over. 1t would almost defy the Imagination
to conceive the infamous extravagances, the
lhorrible'excesses; which men, released from the
only restraint to which they have long been ac-
customed, from military discipline, and who
acknowledge no other law, human or diviney
are capable of perpetrating. OF such char
acter were the indignities which Rome had ts
endure from, the soldiers of Bourbon. more disl
solute, and more impious than the Goths and
Vandals who had formerly conquered herr
Beauty, youth, innocence and weakness tortu-
red, and abandoned to ignomy, the most shameI
full outrage committed on women of the high9
est rank, and on those consecrated to the ser-
vice of religion-the former dishonored in the
presence of their husbands and families, the late
ter violated on the very affairs churches pro-
famed, plundered of their ornaments, and con.
lverted into tables; in one part old men, bisht
ops and cardinals mounted, with their faces to
the tails of asses and mules. paraded tn the
public places, exposed to hootings, to insults;
and to blows, in another, processionsSof sole
dier's boys dressed in sacerdotal robes, count
terfeiting the chanting and the ceremonies of
religion, having their train borne by prelates,
reduced by the condition of footmen and LACE
qeys; here groups of women and girls weeping
dragged with violence BY the brigands who
have carried them off, there, citizens loaded
with irons, laccrated with blows inutilated and
put to the torture, till they discovered the place
where they had concealed their treasures.
Such were few of the scenes presented on this
occasion by the captured city, and enacted By.
those followers of fame, those renowned foster
habies of gore and glory.--Hemoirs Of the
Bourbon family.