Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1838-11-13

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"a zen ta'ft, aud iaae ~, BY hsa4aAiiy spd god
eonnUsi. i'T sssea al var iniftrssd ~ uuas..,ri
Pee na'' fnufHis ass commanders, snd naturally
H@.as wa every sFfcicg Of crime ard Gls0tdfr
Niirther hfs, srs usss. cttrmV Hpd civilization asi
OF g''nT" oY TIE thriy YcHr.' saf ~ carsiian not
very EASILY eerited thnuri, h,siarins tnsv sss-ft
mat tnlope Nas tvwA back fur cfntur, hy Hs tain
Gus '''''qnrares la iuauy pafis "i Gtnnauy learn
'ng Sha % asuAi 5eiafdsei othesa q altogether
'"'pi away, along Nilh The whole p gulsuou "a en-.
hie geori aiion WHO would tot ia .rntral. prove le
0'fl ''uat o. alec grew up AMID sorass OF strife, hcru.
cfntousucss, aud the uncertainty - The morrow Got
ne smear Of Know ledge exitiHg csld h destroy
co ana thousands 0i learned bbC . iBdasirius Ger
mans ,migfalrd and catrcd along : them, into 9th
e. an lea tuAghirned counriss a.. AIS and kuos
sdgc .f WhIch tivif osh alfeGay Nivt,D rashed
he Danes, Swcdrs Poles, aud Scots, who fought ia
germany, there came m contact with state ct erwin.
z""n superior to wh-t existed IN their countries
and along with much unworthy spool, some for aud
honorable booty would Of least Ice carried home by the
mintafy advcnufess As good sometimes results from
e'r t"e unworthy plumber may at times have producrd
beneficial effect The Sntd-s an imitation Of Maxi.
mi'an, who had seui the Heidelberg library to ROME,
sent Libraries paintings, statues aud works of art to
sweden where. OWING TO the scarcity II such treasures
hey could nurdy fan TO some taste lor learning
literature, and refinement
II was 10 the pressure aud hardness of the times.
however that Europe owed toe progress which made
inc uon time forced upon men excess OF mental *.
efion that produced lar nob"r iruit than any likely
nave arisen during the calm reign ordinary peace
Ana The Young Germ1uJ which grew up from beneath
the ruins Of the thirty years var was already many
generations an advance Of the GERMANY that witnessed
lhe hFs' outtreakng Of the great Bohemian volcano.
But whatever advantages Europe may have gained
by the cont. 81. Germany purchased us share OF the
benefit at fearful puce. Law. justice, cquity,-in
many places all the deceucies of ls.--Gad entirely
vanished i:om land IN which force alone welded the
arbitrary sceptre Of command The country said to
have lost twelve millions o. inhabitants by the contest
and the population, which amounted to sixteen IA Hons
when the troubles first broke out counted hardly more
than iocr millions when the closed Though ,his
statement may perhaps, be exaggerated il seems petty
well asccraIued that the population Of the Duchy OF
eight thousand that Of Bohemia had already been re-
duced from three millions TO eight hundred and ninety
thousand before the death of Ferdinand II Saxony
ana brunswick suffered IN the proportion
In the Electorate Of Hessc, seventeen towns forty.
seven castles and three hundred villages had been
to the ground. la the Duchy of Wt,emberg, eight
Towns, iuiyh!c villages, thirty six thousand houses
had been laid IN ashes aud twenty thousand hearth es
completely rAungushed seven churches and four hun
bred and forty -four houses had been burned Eich
stead Many Towns that had ped jcstruc were
almost depopnlaed three hundred houses stood empty
at Nordhelm; more thai: two hundred had been pulled
down at Outtngen merely to serve for fuel he veal
thy city Of Augsburg which contained eighty thousand
inhabitants before 'he war, had only eighteen thousand
when It closed tins town. like many others has never
recovered is iormer prosperity. No less than thirty
Thousand villages aud hauets SAID have been de
s'royed IN many Others the population bad entirely
died OUT aud the uubured cutpscs OF the last victims Of
violence or disease were LETT exposed abnu the streets
or h"'dsi to ne mangrn 10y beasts or birds at ptry
la the last campaign Of the war, tie French and
Swedrs burned no lrss than handled villages B1.
ylra alone and the skulls o! 81 C1znas and 81 Dami-
anus had to be- seat from Bremen 10 unicn IA order
10 console Macmillan for the rum he had brought
his beautiful country. Bnt even these p.'ah.e relics
failed 10 alay the icars OF the unhappy Lratur. the
share which ne had taken in bring ug about tins deco.
ailus contest pressed heavily the latter years of his
life. In vain lac prayed and tasted the dreadful future
was con family before his sight. and the valiant
soldier and ambitious prince died at last a trembling
aud desfairlng blgot
The crimes aud cruellies Of which the troops were
frequently gniy would appear most incredible were
lhey not aucslrd IN manner TO render doubt a0acth
tr 'm possible But independents of private accounts we
nave various reports from he authorities OF towns vii
1Ees and provinces, complaining Of the atrocities
mt'd oy tnr Ia"les' s1ldisfy Peaceful peasants wcrc
hun''u ~ mere Sport He TIE beasts ct lie forest cii-
zen' were uaed up agalnS' doors and walls, and Efod
hl hHe URGES "h.r n'Fnrmrh ana Cfoals liFd l"e'f
shH IN hHI"i"g OF 'ie hrodS 81 young children at o
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