Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-23
For the Anii-S Slavery Brgie.
War and Warriors.
" Great men are not always wise"
ny JOHN n. DsAcu--So. v.

article, will remember that we were dwelling
upon one Of the prominent evils Of war, viz
its terrible destruction of human life. We ad-
duced some important facts from history, show
ing what vast numbers have fallen upon the
field. We spoke Of the other means Of de-
s~truction ever attendant upon the s%ystem-of
the famine, the pesiilence, and the hre-of
the infections and rigors Of foreign climates
of the privations, exposures and hardships
that necessarily sweep of soldiers in vas,
multitudes, and of the widows that have been
made, and the orphans that have persisted
from its barbariiies.
But perhaps some are ready to exclaim,
"all this is ancient warfare" Very true
and what, | ask, is modern warfare but ga
chip from the old block 1t is of a piece
throughout-the DEVILS work from beginning
10 end.
Truly fewer men now fall upon the field Of
battle than formerly-for our muskets, and
howitzers, and cannon, our forts, and bate
ries, and war-ships, our bombs, and rockets,
and grenades, decide an engagement far more
summarily than the lingering mode of olden
time. But this very generation has witness
ed the slaughter of nations and the depopula-
ton Of provinces. France it has seen shorn
Of her 6rst.born, by a more terrible visitart
than ever moved over the land of the Nile.
England, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germa-
nv, Prussia and Austrian short. almost the
1T r-.--a F. A.. rL,-r.I e., III.
city of the Czars-it has seen decinated by
the Moloch of war. The thunders of con-
fiict it has heard booming over the valleys,
lakes and seas Of both hemisphcres. Its tale
is Of Copenhagen, Erie, Champlain, Traial-
gar-of Borodino, Leipsic, Austerlitz, New
Orleans, Waterloo. II came upon the stage
amid the crash of falling empires and the din
of belligerent States. The notes of battle,
caught up from old Atlantic's bosom, echoed
back by Gibraltar's eternal granite from the
old world to the new, still linger in lis ears.
In 1919 it saw in six months alone a million
of men perish on a single campaign. 1t has
can0nized one of the most sanguinary human
butchers that ever trod the worlds stage
that iron-hearted Anarch, who for fifteen years
ranged over Europe like the Death Angel,
overwhelmed the earth's g~randest Empires
in a single battle, and grimly boosted, 81 can
afford ten thousand men a day !" The old
civil structures Of the Continent trembled or
their foundations when he appeared. Govern
ments were demolished before him, dynas.
ties overthrown, kingdoms and states remov.
ed from the busy theatre Of affairs with al
the rspidity of the drama. War was to hin
like his ~favcrite game of chess-Europe wa.
his field Of action; Kings, Emperors, Mar
shalls, Princes and Prelates, his puppets
But his vivid career was cut short by a hanC
mightier than his own. After treading upor
the necks Of rulers, and clambering over tin
wrecks of fallen States, till he reached
height from which he looked down on all tn,
crowned heads of the old World, he died
died a ~cdptire-died amid tho Gesolate crag
Of Helena. Twenty-Five years ago that rock
bound isle was visited by a storm. Tn
ocean reared, and the wild winds moaned i
the valleys; the thunder beloved among til
hills, and the lightning balts crashed throug
the rocking forest. In the voice of the rof
ing elements his warlike spirit, fast ebbin
on the bed Of death, heard the old echoe
of battle" "The last words on his lips wei
of war; Tete d'.3rmee,' was uttered in h
dream-and he died. The fiery spirit passc
away, like Cromwell's, in a storn!' The
followed he those six millions of wTetcht
ghosts that he had despatched before hin
the spirit land. Nor at the close of his ever
full course did the work of destruction ceas
"During only twelve years Of The recent wa
of Europe alone" ] am authorized to atirr
"not less than $500, 900 Christian lives a
supposed 10 have been lost"
Few persons are aware Of the extent
which wars have been waged within the Ia
quarter of a century. 1t has been styled t
period of general Peace, but during the who
of it the massive gates Of the worlds w
Temple, Janus-like, have stood ajar. All t
nations of Chrisiendom have thronged the
grim courts, each bringing her houid heC
tomb and libations of human blood have
cessantly steamed up from those brazen
tars.
About the commencement Of 1921, t
storm Of Revolution broke out in Greece.
ION Suli's rock and Parga's shore" the
give sword FLASHED with the Turkish sciu
tar. For nine long years that hardy ia
stood firm against the Ottoman power; a
for nine long years the land of classic mem
" was defaced by pi!lage and decimated
slaughter. But at length the Autocrat of /
North stretched forth his arm the Pacha
Egypt followed up the advantage, and Gree
through the tardy interference of foreign Pc
ers, at last obtained rest.
During the same time France was wagi
an exterminating war against Algiers, a
ia. .a.r,Isionc xuara ehakin0 the Rem