Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS
WARS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES.
By E.. BuYitt.


i The newspaper press has long per-
/ petuated "reminiscences Of War, sea-
lsoned to the ardent fancy of youth, with
the generous heroics Of patriotism and
poetry and romance. | should be ex-
ceedingly grateful to your courtesy, and
you might lay mankind under some
obligation to that blind quality of
Christianity, if you would occasional
ly admit into your columns some of
those "reminiscences Of War calculated
to inspire both the young and the old,
ofthis enlightened age, with an indom-
liable adherence of all that savors Of
/ the spirit, or tends to perpetrate the
existence, of that sanguinary monster.
| These Observation-Disclosures are living,
without any association with romance,
or the heroics of the Imagination, in
the sleepless misery of millions of your
fellow beings-the burning Inheritance
of War. The down-crushed poor of
Christendom, with the bleared vison of
their starved intellects, are gasping for
the cause Of their poverty and degra-
dalion, and grssping it In its slow rev.
elation.
| They had discovered in the monstrous
lineaments of War, the Dampered Cor
don which for ages has fed at the veins
of Labor, and IS now eating out the
substance and subsistence of their bod
les and souls, and enslaving them TO
want, wretchedness. and hopeless igno-
rance. They appeal to you to indict
this horrid cannibal War, before the
! tribunal of Humanity, and enter there
the evidence Of its savage atrocities
perpetrated on the human race, and
| written in lines of fire and rivers of
blood around the globe.
Here, then, are few of the RENT
niscences of War, entirely shorn of po-
etry. They are bloody witnesses to
| the truth, and let them testify. In the
periodical butcheries in the human fam
| lily, the following hecatombs have been
offered up to that god Of battles
which both Christians and Pagans
have worshipped with the same devo-
ton.
Lose of Life IN the Jewish
Wars, 100000
! By Wars in the time of Sesos-
iris. 100000
| By those of Semiramis, Cyrus,
and Alexander, 100000
By Alexander's successors. 20,000,000
Wars of the twelve Cesars, 30,0OO,CcO
Roman Wars before Julias C@-
Sar, OU,Joo,oUO
| Wars Of the Roman Empire,
Turks and Saracens,, lS0,0O0,OOO
Wars Of the Reformation. 10000, 900
Wars of the Middle Ages, and
nine crusades, S0,OOO,UOO
Tartar and African Wars. 10000, 900
! American Indians destroyed by
the Spaniards, l2,OO0,O OO
! Wars Of Napoleon. 6,000,0 600
668,0O0,OOO
The above is mere extract from the
bloody statistics Of glorious War; one
/ chapter in the annals of the violence,
crime and misery that have followed
in the foot prints Of the Great Destroy
er. The loss Of souls is entered where
human eyes may not read the list DR..
/ Dick estimates the number of those
who have persisted directly and indi-
rectly by War, at fourteen thousand
millions, or about ome-temth OF the hui
man race. Edmond Burke placed the
number at thirty,,fve thousand millions.
Taking the estimate of DR.. Dick, and
assuming the average quantity ofblood
in common seized person, the veins
Of those fourteen thousand millions
would fill a circular lake of more than
seuenteen miles IN circumference
ten feet deep! in which all the navies
!. Of the world might float! Surprising
these slaughtered millions to average,
each, A feet in length, if placed in a
ROW, they would reachnearly 442 times
round the earth, and 4 times around the
Isun. Surprising they average l3olbs.
each, then they would form globe Of
human flesh ofnearly mile in diameter,
weighing 1890, 900, 900, 900 lbs, "A
times more than all the human beings
now living onthe globe.
HINTS TO FARMERS.