Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-02-10

the Christian Emperor Constantine. Ten |
centuries afterwards, 10000 fell in one
single fight. The Aibigensian war, In !
the commencement of the 18th century,
began with the sacking of B-zieres, In
which 10000 souls were massacred.-I
Procopius tells US in speaking oil the raw
ages committed in that part of Africa bor-
dering upon the Mediterranean, by the
Romans, that it was so entirely depopula-
ted that one might travel whole dav. and
not meet human being and in the
course of this war 100000 persisted.
At the s.orming of Karazm, Mohanmed's
capital, 100000 were mastered, and 100.
600 were sold for slaves; 10000 were
shot with arrows upon the plains of Mesa,
in cold blood. 1,746,OOO were butcher.
ed IN the two cities of Tus and Nashbur
and 100000 in the province of Hera..
In the last battle that Genghis Khan
fought against the Tangut rebels, 800.
900 persisted on the field. In the first
fourteen years of the Mogul Empire,
Genghis Khan destroyed $4,000 OO0!-
Julius Cesar annihilated an army of
100000 Helyetii, and some of his sold
iers dropped dead from WEAKNESS with
slaughter. At another time he massacred
100000 innocent Germans who crossed
the Rhine with their wives and children,
fiocks and herds, in search of new
home!
Oh what mournful task il is for the
tender mind to trace the page of history.
How often have one, two, nay three hun
dred thousand persons persisted in SIM
gle fight. Ancient history tells of many
such sad tales, and modern history ech-
| oes the mournful story. In the ten wears
siege of Troy there persisted $40, 900
Grecians and $4,000 Troians. When
the city was taken. $4,000 men, women
and children were massacred. Cesar
killed more than million of persons;-
the Arabs under Mahomet the second,
slew 100000; Constantine, Christian,
slew $4,000. One man, Siccius Denta-
tus, fought in hundred fights, aud re-
celVed forty wounds; one King, Edward
the 4th of England, fought in 26 battles.
At the battle of Couna. the hostile armies
fought from sun to sun, and the once
golden orb of day sank to rest, red with
bloody rays reflected from the field on
which lay 10000 human beings cold and
dank in death. :.
In sieges the loss of human life is often
more frightful than in pitched battles. -
At the siege Of Jerusalem, 100000 died I
with sworl and famine At the siege of
Ostend, justly termed a small fortress but
great grave 10000 men lost their lives.
besides whole towns and hospitals full of
the wounded. When Rhodes was be-
sleged, the bitches were full of dead carl
cases; and when Vienna was beleaeuered
by Solyman, the Turk, the dead bodies
lay level with the top of the walls. In
the ten years terrible civil war, in France. !
| 900, 600 of men persisted. And in the
domestic contests in England, between the
red and white roses, between brothers and
kindred, 10000 families were rooted out,
and 100000 men were killed The
Spanlards, In AZ years, destroyed l2,OOO,-
600 in the West Indies. To come down
still later IN the pages of history, it is
calculated that at least 100000 of per-
sons persisted in the wars occasioned bv
the French Revolution; and at least 60
600, 700 were slain in the various wars
that have occurred between France and
England, since the commencement of the
Christian era. The crusades drained
Europe o. 20,000,O0O; at Nice and An
tloch the destruction was dreadful: and il
IS calculated that at least 5 100000 per-
!shed by the ravages of civil wars in the
Holy Land, in which the crusades did not
DIN ...-. i =.
la the last siege of the city of Mexico.
more than hundred thousand persons h
persisted in battle, and more than Gfv
thousand by infectious distempers, oeca-
stoned by the impurity of the air, arising
from the great multitude Of PURIFYING
bodies. There is no excess of sufferinos
which the wretched Indians did not IN
1ergo 10 the defence of their capital ;
Bernal Dlas del CASTILLO, one of the con- t
lasstGdores, bears witness, from personal
observation, that it exceeded oil the hor.
rors of war recorded of the destruction OF !
Jerusalem by Titus. 1t would seem. in +
Iced, as if Cortez and his followers lad
become actually brutifed in this terrible
var; for the same Unsuitable thirst of
blood appears TO have animated all alike.
he officers as well as the common sol.
iiers The individual acts of cold blood
'ruelty, which they committed, are truly e
stonlshlng. But what was to be expect E
d from the low bred foot soldier, when =
;ortez himself could condescend to tor. =
ure Gualemozin, with his chief minister i
nd the vassal, the king of Tlacopan, by
nearing their feet with oil. and suspend f
ng them over braziers of burning Goals /,
even the cbdurate army itself murGured, A
when he caused the captive emperor and Il
ne two highest princes Of the empire TO 4
e ANONYMOUSLY executed as common 4
on some such light suspicion n