Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-20
THE HAyoU or LEE av wAR

II is difficultsto conceive what fearful havoe
war has made Of human life. Some Of its
INCIDENTAL raysges seem to defy ell belief. It
has at times entirely depOpulateG immense dis
tTtcts. II modern as well as ancient times,
large tracts have been left so utterly desOlate
that a traveller might pass from village to viii
lage, even from city to city, without finding a
solitary inbsbit1nt. TIE war of 1856 waEedin
the heart of Europe, left, in one instance, no
lessS than tvs onty continuous villages without
E sirgle msn or beast. The Thirty Years.
War;" in the seventeenth century, reduced the
population Of Germany from y 0GO.O00 to
1000, 000-fEres fourths; and that Of Wurten-
burg from 500, 900 10 69, 690-m0re than nine
teuths! Thirty thousand villages were de-
stroyed; in many parts the population entirely
died out; sDd in districts, once studded with
towns and cities, now sprung up Immense
forests.
Look at the havoc Of gleges-in that Of Lon
d~ondsrry II, 0o0 soldiers besides a vast number
OF inhabitants in that OF Paris, In the 18th
century, $4,000 victins OF mere hunger; in
that OF Malapfssuet. 1900 soldiers alone in
that Of Ismail, 10000 Of Vienna, 10000 ; Of
Ostend, 10000; Of Mexico, 1906 600 Of Acre,
goo 600; of Carthage, 100000; Of Jerusalem,
LOCO, 600.
Mark the slaughter Of single battles-at
Lepanto, twenty-five thousand ; at Au1tsrlitz,
thirty thousand at Eylau, sixty thousand at
Waterloo and Quatre Brss-one engagement
in faet-seyenty thousand; at Borodino, eighty
thousand ct Fontenay, one hundred thousand;
at Chslons, three hundred thousand OF Attilla's
army SIene /; four hundred thousand Usipetes
were slain by Julius C95ar in one bate, and
four hundred and thirty thousand Germans in
another.
Take only two cases more. The army Of
Xsrxes, says DR.. Dick, must have amounted TO
yy5S3,320; aud, il the attendants were only
one-third as great as commOn at the present
day IN eastern countries, the sum total must
have reached nearly Blk millions. Yef, in one
year, this vast multitude was reduced, though
not entirely by death, TO three hGndred thou
sand fighting mn; and Of these only three
Thousand escaped destruction. JenghIs-kean,
the terrible ravager OF Asia in the thirteenth
century, shot ninety thousand On tbe plains Of
Mesa, and massscred two hundred thousand
at the storming Of Ksarasm.
In the district Of Meret, he buschered one
million six hundred thousand, and in two cities,
with their de9endeDcies, one million seven
hundred and sixty-two thousand During the
last twsnty-seven years Of bis long reign, be is
said to have massacred more than half a mil
lion every year; and ia the frst fourteen years
be is supposed by Chinese historians to have
destroyed not less than eighteen millions-a
sum total Of over thirty-two millions in forty
one years. i
In any view, what a fell destroyer Is war? |
NapoIeoh's wsrs sacrificed full six millions,
and all the wars consequent on the French rev.
olusion, some nine or ten millions. The Span
iards are said to have destroyed in forty-two
years mere than twelve millions Of American
Indians. Grecian wars sacrificed fifteen mil
lions Jewish wars wen y-fve millions the
wars Of the twelve CasaFs, in all, thirty mil
lions the wars OF the Romans, before Julius
Cesar, sixty millions the wars Of the Roman
Empire, Of toe Ssracens and the Turks, sixty
millions each those Of the Tartsrs eighty MIL
lions those of Africa one hundred millions
DR.. Dick says that if we take into eonsid-
Grafton The number, not only Of those Who
have fallen in battle, but OF those VINO have
persisted through the natural consequences of
war. it will bot, perhaps, be OverruBning the
destruction of human life If We affirm that
Of tbe human race has been DESTROYED
By the ravages Of war; and according to tbis
estimate, more than fourteen thousand millions
Of humsn beings have been slaughtered in war
since the beginning Of the world. Edmunu
Burke went still further, aud rsckoned the
sum total Of it's Tavages, from the first, at no
less than thiTtY-hve thousand millionsl