The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-09-14

900 were slain IN the various wars tina
have occurred between France and Eng
land since the commencement. of the Chris
tian era. The crusades drained Europe
of 2O.000,000; at Nice and Antioch the
destruction was dreadful; and it is calcu.
lated that at least 100000 persisted by
the ravages OF civil wars in the Holy
Land, in which the crusaders did no,
join.
"Tn the last siege of the city Of Mexico
more than 100000 persons persisted in
battle, and more than $4,000 by infectious
distempers occasioned by the inquiry OIL
the air arising from the multitude of pu.
trifying bodies. There is no excess oil
suferings which the wre.ched Indians did
not undergo in the defense of their capt.
tai. Bernal Dias del CASTILLO, one of the
conquistadores, bears witness. from per-
sonal observation, that it exceeded all the
horrors of war recorded of the destruc-
ton OF Jerusalem by Titus. 1t would
seem, indeed, as if Cortez and his follow
ers had become actually brutifed in the
terrible war for the same Unsuitable thirst
of blood appears to have animated all
alike, the officers as we'll as the common
soldiers. The Individual acts of cold
blooded cruelty which they committed are
truly astonishing. But what was to be
expected from the low bred foot soldier,
when Cortez himself could condescend
10 torture Guatemozin, with his chief
minister, and the vassal king Of Tacopan,
by smearing their feet with oil, and sus.
pending them over braziers of burning
Goals? Even the obdurate army itself
murmured when he caused the captive
emperor and the two highest princes of
the empire to be ANONYMOUSLY executed
as common malefaetors, on soNe light
suspicion, such as had before furnished
a pretext for the similar murder of Yco-
tencati, the subtle minded Tlascalm ctief.
The popuIous cities of Chill and Panuco,
RACED to the earth, and AGO of the princl-
pal mobiles of Panuco burnt alive, suffi.
ciently signalize the vindictiyeness of Cor
tez Gonzalo Sundeval.
Alexander and Cortez were alike in
their astonishing cruelty-a general char.
acteristic of conquerors. The hero of
America caused AGO Indians to be burnt
alive; the hero Of Asia caused 1000 Tyr
ians 10 be crucified.'
Even this generation has witnessed an
enormous loss of life by bloody and dis
astrous wars. 100000 of the English
soldiers persisted in the campaigns of the
peninsula, and 1000 officers. At Water
loo, one man in every 40 was killed
The entrance of the French army into
Russia cost 100000 lives. At Leipsic,
Borodino, and the Moskva, the sIaug liter
was horrible. Napoleon entered Russia
with $4,000 men and 100000 horses
at the passage of the Niemen, his army
was devastated by terrible storm; Count
Segur says that 10000 horses persisted
on the march, and large numbers of men
soon gave way also; their carcasses en-
numbered the road. and sent forth me-
philic smell impossible to breathe; it was
a new scourge, more terrible than the |
sword or famine. Many soldiers of the
Young Guard persisted with hunger
All turned their attention to plumber. The
army had advanced but 100 leagues from
The Niemen, when it was completely |
changed. The officers who travelled post
from the interior of France to Join it, ar.
rived in camp dismayed. They could not
how it happened that victori.
ous army, without fighting should leave
behind more wrecks aud desolaion than
, defeated one From these sufferinos,
moral and physical, from these privations,
rom these continual bivouacs, as danger
BUS near the poles as under the equator,
md by the infection of the air by putr.
led carcasses of men and horses, sprane
wo dreadful epdemics - the dvsentery
md typhus fever. Out of $4,000 Bava-
'ians who had crossed the Oder, IL 900
'nly reached the Duna, and yet they had
aeUer been IN action. This march cost
he French one-fourth and the allies one
1alf their armies. AT Wilma, it was not
possible TO establish hospitals for more
han 5000 sick. Convents, churches,
and barns served 10 receive
his suffering multitude; and in these mis-.
'rable places, unhealthy, too few, and too
crowded, the sick were very often without
God, without clothes and covering, and
without medicines Such was the march
IF victorious army; what, then, must
rack the career of a defeated one? Let
he horrible passage of the Beresina tell
TO sun up all in one line--careful calcu
ators have estimated that there has been
At least the enormous number of 70. 600.
100000 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.
amenable TO heavens awful tribunal.
should be sent premalureIy 10 their last
account, unanointed, unanneaIed, with all
their sins upon their heads2 We can