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

Think of the hostile armies, each con
sisting of 100000 or 10000 men, ar
rayed against each other on the field o
battle, las on the night before the fight a
Walerloo,) waiting, painting, eager for the
fray, and actually thirsting with intense
eagerness to i,ubrue their hands in each
others blood And then think, if you
can, of the situation of these men, after
the frighlful scene of strife and blood is
at an end - thousands upon thousands OIL
these immortal beings, friend and foe, in
discriminatory hCddled together in heaps
the dying & the dead, wounded, MAIN
ed, mangled, trampIed on, the living SUI
ferer buried beneath the dead and decaying
carcasses of his fellow men, and in some
cases buried alive
"Rider g. horse, friend, foe in one red burial bent"
Oh the horrors of war are too dread
full even for contemplation. We are told
that in the wars between the Romans and
the Jews, 100000 of human beings were
slain at Jerusalem. Probus caused 700.
900 Gauls to be slain in the space of one
year. Ia the 9th century, 10000 men
were slain upon a sngl occasion, by the
Christian Emperor Constantine. Ten
centuries afterwards, 10000 fell in one
single fight. The Albigensian war, in
the commencement of the 18Th century,
began with the sacking Of Bezieres, in
which 10000 people were massacred.-
Procopus tells US, in speaking of the raw
ages committed in that part o. Africa bor-
dering upon the Mediterranean, by the
Romans, that it was so entirely depopu-
lated that one might travel whole day.
and not meet human being; and in the
course of this war 100000 perished.-
At the storming Of Karazin, Mohammed's
capital, 100000 were mastered, and l00,.
900 were sold for slaves; 10000 were
shot with arrows upon the plains of Mesa,
in cold blood l,746.000 were butchered
in the two cities of Tus and Nashbur;
and 100000 in the province of Herat.
In the last battle that Genghis Khan
fought against the Tangut rebels, 100000
persisted on the field. In the first four
leen years of the Mogul empire, Genghis
Khan destroyed 100000! julius Cm.
sar annihlated an army of 263, 900 Hell
vetti, and some Of his soldiers dropped
dead from weariness with slaughter. AT
another time he massacred 100000 limo,
cent Germans, who crossed The Rhine
with their wives and children, hocks, and
herds, in search Of new homei
Oh what mournful task it is for the
tender mind to trace the page Of history.
How often have one, two, nay three
hundred thousand persisted in single
fight. Ancient history tells of many such
sad tale. and modern history echoes the
mournful story. 10 the ten years siege
Of Troy, there persisted $4,000 Grecians
and $4,000 Trojans; and when the city
was taken, 376 900 men, women and chill,
dren were massacred. Cesar killed more
than million Of persons; the Arabs, un.
der Mahommet the I'd, slew 100000;
Constantine. a Christian, slew $4,000.
One man. Siccius Denlalus. fought in
hundred fights, and received forty wounds;
one King. Edward the 4th of England,
fought in 26 bottles. Al the battle Of
Gamma, 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 Law TO-
900 human beings cold and dark in death
In sieges the loss of human life is often
more frighlful than in pitched battles. At
the siege of Jerusalem 1000 900 died with
sword and famine. AT the siege of Osead,
justly termed a small fortress but great
grave, 10000 men lost their lives, be-
sides whole towns and hospitals full of the
wounded. When Rhodes was besieged,
the bitches were full of dead carcasses !;