The native American., 1839-01-19
GLIMPSES OF WAR.

Causes of Wu.-These says Dr. Knox, are
often such as would disgrace any animal pretending
TO the least degree of nationality. James tells Us
their real character. Whence come wars anc
fghtings among you' Come they not hence, even
lof your lust" !"
lders duties!! And here is part of them
"Push hard with the bayonet Stab once and
off with the Turk from the bayonet Stab the
second stab the third A hero will stab half a
dozen If three attack you, stab the first, fire on
the second, aud bayonet the third - Such is war.
Is it like the Sermon on the mount?
Waste of property by Wm.--It is incalcuIable,
because we can estimate only its expenses mere
fraction of what it wastes but these alone are
euorlnous, even in time of peace. The expen-
ses of the United States in one form or another,
for war in 1892 were $50, ,554 900 and for all
other purposes, only S3,7O2, 900. From 1916 to
1884, period of lS years. our national expenses
were $463, ,9l5, 756, an average Of $25 TIA, ,O97 a
year, all of which, except about three millions and
a half, were for purposes of war OF the whole
sum, more than 398,0DO,OOO were for war, and
only about "a OOO0 600, less than one-sixth for the
necessary operations of Government The war
debt of Great Britain is nearly 1000, 600, 600
From 1897 to 1917, she raised by revenue &C.
1872 S66, ,066, and borrowed So, l6O, ,O00, 900 in
all $S,352 866, ,o66; an average Of $l,l43,444
IeVery uay lor twenty years, ana 1uli hfty-nlne-
sixtieths of it all for war
hilated an army of $4,000; of another, he slew
4OO0 900; and on another occasion, he massacred
more than 43O 900! Jenghiz-Khan once shot co.
900 men in cold blood. At another time he mas
sacred 200, 900, and sold 100 600 more for slaves
In single district he butchered GOO, 900, and in
| two cities with their dependencies, l,76O, 900 !!
During the late wars of Europe, no less than s.
100000 lives supposed to have been lost in
tUelUe gears; and the Spaniards said to have
destroyed in AZ years, more than l2,O0O, 900 of
the American Indians How long will Christians
connve at such custom?
.Napoleons sacrifice of fife" Never was there
a conqneror, says an European paper, "who fought
more battles or overthrow more thrones than Ma
poleon. But we cannot appreciate the degree and
quality Of his glory, without weighing the means
he possessed, and the results which he accom-
|plished Enough for our present purpose will be
|gained if we set before us the mere resources Of
flesh and blood which he called into play from the
rupture of the peace of Amiens, in 1904 down to
his eventful exit. At that time he had, as he de-
clared to Lord Wentworth, an army on foot Of
4SO,0O0 men, and from 1904 to 1914, he levied
at least, 1865, ,965. This statement is deficient
but even if we deduct the casualties, as we'll as
the 800, 900 men disbanded in 1915, we shall be
tered two millions and half of human beings, ant
these all Frenchmen. But we have yet to adj
the thousands and tens of thousands of Germans
Swiss, Poles, Italians Neapolitans, and Illyrians
whom he forced under his eagles and. at a mod
crate computation these cannot have fallen short
of half million It is obviously just to assume
that the number who fell on the side of his ad-
versaries was equal to that against which they
brought. Here then, are our data for asserting
that the latter years Of his glory were purchased
at no less an expense than six millions of human
lives p
| atrocities incident to War.-It is not very un-
common for the ouposts Of two armies, encamped
near each other to be terms OF friendly inter-
course; and after having messed together one day,
they have, the very next, when called forth to
battle, imbrued their hands in each others Blood.
In cases, professed disciples of the Prince Of
Ipeace, belonging to the two armies, have attended
the sacrament together and then gone, in few
days or hours, to the field of mutual slaughter. In
the famous battle Of Bennington, members of the
same church! fought on both des-actually
butchered one another
Sometime since," says an excellent minister
I"I endeavored to prove, in discourse to my own
lpeople, the incompatibility of war with Christian
lily. Soon after, one of the members of the church
who had been in the army, mentioned, in refer.
ence to this discourse, that he had lately met with
a comrade of his who had been in the PeDinsual
war, and who had related to him the following
anecdote: A soldier whom knew when we
were in Spain a German by birth, was engaged
with his company of the rifle corps, in skirmishng
with some Of the enemy's outposts. From shell
tered position, he had an opportunity Of taking aim
at detached individual, belonging to the conti-
mental auxiliares Of the French army. He fired
the enemy fell. He ran up to him, and seized his
knapsack for prey. On opening it, letter drop
ped out he had the curiosity to take it up an
open it. He glanced at the close Of the letter.
found it subscribed by person Of the same man,
las his own father His interest was increased
The read the whole letter. He had shot his go,
brother ! '--.dduocate Of Peace. "n
DEsTRUcTIvENEss.-Och the son of Artax-
erxes, and successor to that King on the throne OF
Persia, 800 years before the Christian era, accor-
Idng to all accounts, had the greatest destructive
lnronenstv with n very few exceptions, of any in