Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-16
Arithmetic Of War.

II is difficult to credit, or adequately con-
cciye even, the well-nttested statistics of war.
When such philosopher as Dick, or such
statesmen as Burk, brings before us his esti-
mate of the havoc which this custom has
made of human life in all past time, il seems
utterly incredible-almost inconcevable (;
and still more are we staggered by the for
midable array of figures employed to denote
this sum total of money squandercd Oh hu-
man bntchery.
Baron Won Rtden--pcrhaps the abest
staiisticlan of the age-tclls us in recent
work of his, that the continent of Europe
alone now has full four millions of men un-
der arms-moro than half its population
between the age of twenty aud thirty and
that The support OF these immense prcpara-
ton for war, together with the interest and
cost OF collection aud disbursement on the
aggregate of its war debt, amounts TO more
than one thousand million of dollars year.
Let any man try to form an adequate concep-
ton ofwhat is meant by either ofthese sums.
and Inc will give up the effort in despar.
| The Baron estimates the war debts now
resting on the States of Europe ut ;s7,ASI,-
000,O0O. How shall we realize what this
enormous sum means? Shall we count?
At the rate of $50 a minute, ten hours every
day, for three hundred days in n year, il
would take moro than eight hundred yenrs
barely TO count the present war debt Of Eu-
rope alone.
Let us look for moment at what Ingland
wasted for war from the revolution in 1858
to the downfall of Napoleon in 1915. The
sum totul besides all that she spent upon
her war system in the intervals of peace.
was SlO, 5O,O0O,OOO; and it we add the in
tcrest on her war debts contracted in that
period, the grand total will reach nearly Sl7,-
OOO,OOO,OOO! Al $50 minute for ten hours
in day, or $4,000 a day, aud 300 days in
year, II would require more than | ,57i years
to count it all. Add an average of her war
establishment since 1851, aud aggregate of
$4,000, 100000 in these tliirty-iivo years, and
we have a sum total of nearly twenty thou
sand millions No wonder that the old
world is recling and staggering under the
burden of such enormous expenditures for
wa; purposes.
Twenty thousand millions of dollars! 1t
is nearly thirty times MS much us all the coin
now supposed to bc in the world aud if
these $4,000, 100000 were all in silver dol
lars, aud placed in rows, they would belt the
globe more than lG0 times
p""o WV nuiluIeu years ago, lhoS. Hob
hes, an English lnfidel, put forth the theory
III regard to duty, that the rule of moral ac-
ION was the law of the lnnd" This Inf.
del theory, which has been exploded more
Than century, has been dug mp from lis
grave, rcvampcd, and stale MS il is, nfdeI as
II has ever been regarded, is seized by the
great apostotc and his followers, and pro-
claimed over the land by them, rs the very
essence of truth aud gospel. That Mr.. Web.
sler should apostatize so suddenly, and sink
so low, is moro melancholy than surprising.
Ills long course Of ntcnperanco and de-
banchery was calculated TO destroy the NOR
al principles which may have controlled his
better days. No moral honesty can long
withstand the constant force OF alchohoI.
and the indulgence Of RIGHTEOUSNESS. The
Devll may for time assume the aspect of
AN angel of light" but sooner or later lie
VIII manifest the cleft of his foot. and stnnd