New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-29
CHRIsTIANIrY-WAR.

Around and la SevdstOpOl, on tbe Eastern verge
of Europe near the ancient seats Of civilization,
were gathered at our last accounts more than
One Hundred Thousand of the chivalry of Chris
tendon. Science, Art, Wealth, Genius have
done their utmost to provide and equip these men
with everything calculated to increase their ef-
fciency. The region they occupy, though rugged
is fertile and fruitful-a land where the Grape
and the Peach attain their rarest perfection. 1t
was included in skirted by all the great empires
of antiquity; and all religions deserving
moments attention were Graded on the oppO-
site shore of the chain Of seas and straits that
here and southwark divides Europe from Asia
On every ade are memorials Of the mighty Past
and inspirations to heroic deeds. Here is a force
capable of making short work Of canalling the
Istbmus Of Suez and shortening, by more than
half, the route by steam and sailing vessels be-
tween Christendom and the -Four Hundred Mil
lions of India and China. What are they doing
to justify such an aggregation of the noblest
blood Of Europe and to requite a total out
10y equal to the wealth of Kingdom
They are hacking and manning aud staying
each other as fast as the most devilsh enginery
will enable them so to do-shattering each others
ankles with grape and breaking each others
spines with musket-balls All day, all night, the
cannon below, the shell whizzss, the round shot
crashes through squadron and platoon. Here
horses run frightened and riderless; there the
ball is heated red hot to pierce and explode the
magazine or set the ship on fire. Want, irregu-
larity, exposure, sleeplessness, hurry thousands
after thousands to their grsves-but no; even
those who are covered with earth have nothing
worthy the name of sepulture. The stencil Of
unburied corpses corrupts even the chill air of
November; hence pestilence assails those whom
rocket and bomb have spared. Amputated arms
and legs lie in unrt garded piles; mutilated but
living bodies in every form Of CORY and hideous
Disagreement, crowd every bowel, and shrieks Of
agony drown even the reckless jollity Of the camp.
Grim Death claims fresh victims every moment,
while Thousands in maDgled agony pray eagerly
Tor the stroke which will come but sill delays.
What have men ever heard or dreamed Of He'll
that equals this aggregation Of torture and
horror
Surely, some Scythian butcher, some pagan de-
vasistor, of the breed of Attila or Jenghis Khan,
must have burst with his innumerable hOrdes
frontier of Civilization TO render possible such
Pandemopium in the middle of the Nineteenth
Century
On the contrary, the principals in this carnival
of murder are three of the foremost Nations Of
CbIistendOm representing respectively its three
al J;r,s IL II D.
estant Churches. The first vaunts itself pre-
eminently "Orthodox;" the second lie par excel
lence Catholic" the third is ranged under the
banners of the Defender of the Faith" Nay:
the earliest pretext of this gigantic butchery was
a squabble between the rival adherents of Greek
and Roman orthodoxy for precedence ia the
house of prayer erected over the alleged sepul-
chre Of the cruciied Prince Of Peace; and the
earthly head of the Russo. Greek Church was the
immediate author of this horrible carnage. He
-0zar Nicholas, chief champion OF Orthodoxy,
Christianity and Orier-he, sole bulwark of
Family, Property and Religions the stirrer-
up of this internal fray and his instrument there
IN, Menchikof, is now commander Of one of the
mighty hosts intent on destroying each other!
Nay. more: Russian Priests and Bishops are
blessing banners, and performing all manner of
clerical incsntations to excite the combatants on
their side to massacre those on the other, assur.
ing the deluded timpletons that they are fighting
for Christianity and "holy Russia" and that all
who die so lighting are instantly translated to
eternal bliss. OF course, the priests of the an.
tasODistie nations are equally profu.s in the EN-.
ployment of this same cheap incentive to heroism.
And so the chariot of War rolls on. crushing un.
der its pitiless wheels more victims than an, "a.
gan Juggernaut and resolved not to stay its blood,
course until one or both armies shall have been
annihilated.