Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-02-10
entrance of the French army into Russia

cost 500. 900 lives At Lelpsic, Borodno,
aud The Moskva, the slaughter was horri-
bic. Napoleon entered Russia with 375,-
0oO men and 100000 horses. At the
passage of the Nlemen, his army was de-
vastated 6V a terrible storm. Count Seeur
says that 10000 horses persisted on the
march, and large numbers ofthe men soon
gave way also; their carcasses encum-
bered the road, and sent forth a mephitlc
smell, impossible to breathe; it was new
scourge, more terrible than the sword or
famine; many soldiers of the Young
Guard persisted with hunger. Allturned
their attention to plumber. The army had
advanced but 100 leagues from the Me
men. when it was completely changed.
The officers who travelled post from the
interior of France to join it arrived in
camp dismayed. They could not conceive
how it happened, that a uictorious armu
aolthout fighting, should leave behind more
wrecks and desolation than defeated one.
From these suferings, moral and physical.
from these privations. from these continu-
al bivonacs, as dangerous near the poles
as under the equator. and by the infection
OF the air by putre6ed carcases of men and
horses, sprang two dreadful epidemics-
the dysentery and typhus fever Out of
$4,000 Bavarians, who had crossed the
Oder, 1000 only reached the Duna, and
yet they had nerer been in action. This
march cost the French one-fourth, and
the allies one half their armies. A,
Wilma, it was not possible to establish
hospitals for more than 5000 sick. Con-
vents. churches, synagogues, and barns,
reserved TO receive this suffering multi.
tude; and in these miserable places. un-
healthy, too few, aud too crowded, the
sick were very often without food, without
beds, without clothes and covering, and
without medicines Such was the march
OF a victorious army. What then must
track the career of defeated one? Lei
the horrible passage of the Beresina tell
To sum up all in one line, careful CAL
culators have estimated that there has been
at least the enormous number of seventy
billions of human beings killed by war
since the creation of the world! What
mind, then, can estimate the horrors of
war And here we might ask, does it
not deserve the anxious thought of all, that
this immense number Of creatures, amen
able 10 Heavens awful tribunal. should be
sent prematurely TO their last account. IN
anolnted, unannealed. with all their sins
upon their head? We can weep over an
imaginary tale of sorrow, concocled bv
some hungry. starving novel writer: and
yet we have no sigh to spare for the scenes
of real sorrow and suffering which the
$ Horrors of War; produce. We can
read OF forced marches, hunger, privation
and suffering endured by the soldier: of
he battle array, the fight, the slaughter,
he butchery of human beings; the flash
alarms, thelglare of bombs, the groancs of
he wounded, the blast of the trumpet.
pouredforth to drown the agonized screams
Of the dying; the shouts Of onset the
teafenlng roars of cannons as it was
1t Zorndof where they were likened to a
continued clap Of thunder for four hours !: |
men and horses mingling and fighting to-
5ether like raging tigers, muItitudes
trewing the ground, writing in blood
md dirt, nangled, groaning, trampled and
rushed beneath the feet of the charging
md retreaiing cavalry; the earth smoking
With blood, forming the bed alike of the |
lead and dying, the corse of friend or foe !
heir pillow; death in frigh,ful forms
meeting one at every step; bodies a few
minutes before gay and graceful with life,
lealth and beauty, laying dreadfully dis
lgured in every direction, features ghast-
Y, eyes half closed, garments rolled in
Hood - some lying dead in hostile pairs
S they fought and fell some struggling
Or life to free themselves from under
pile of dead bodies, the dead
MI the dying haddIed unceremoniousIv
ogether IN one great grave! All this we
an read OF in the midst, of the peaceful
omestic circle with the utmost composure
nd yet weep over the imaginary woes oil
Werter, and our eyes be sufused with
ears at the supposititious sorrows of a
charlotte.
Oh, how inconsiderate, how apatbetic
ow inconsistent is man! How true it is
nat Il
-" Mans inhumanty to man,
Makes countless thousands mournt"
Even the tiger fell and sullen bear, |
Their likeness and their image SPARE ;
Man only mars kind natures plan,
And turns the fierce pursuit on man" {
Again. think of the sufferings and mis- :,
lies endured by the wounded and the
'nquered alter battle. After the fight !
Aorndoff, between the Emperor Fred
nc and General Farmer, in twenty vii. | U
ges there was neither man nor beas,. I
I'd seven fourishing towns were set on t.
r., the men massacred, the women yio-
ted, and the children thrown into The
ames. Every city and village which Ii
e French entered on their march TO P
Ioscow, was deserted and set on lire d
fer the battle of Smolensk, there was II
IT particle of linen to dress the wounds b