The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-13

the contest against the South be continued but
fifty millions OF dollars? Have they ever reflected
bat all this vast sum of money will have TO he
'aid by them, out of their earnings, and for the
most part by direct taxaton2 As the Northern
mind is assumed 10 be emnenty statistical, would
not be well to estimate beforehand what sum
u money will be required to carry on such a war,
/ 1t should happen TO be protracted, not merely
Trough one year. but through four or FIVE?
Where is six or seven hundred millions of dollars
to come from? Not from accruing revenue, thati
clear. The net amount of revenue that may be
calculated upon during the next four years cannot
exceed, in the aggregate, more than hundred mil
lions of dollars. For the remaining five hundred
millions, resort must be had to loans and at a
steadily progressing depreciation in the value of |
the bonds or treasury notes offered for sale in the
market That the South will also have to bear a |
heavy hurthcn may be admitted: but the eypens,s |
incurred by the South will not exceed one-,lird
Of the costs and charges which will hare to be |
betrayed by the North. A defensive war is. COM
parauvely speaking, a cheap war, so far as pecu
mary outlay is concerned. The Southern people
are lighting for their Independence, upon their
own soil, in defence of their homes and fres5es
their wives and children, and the right to govern
themselves. If thy are beaten in the field, they
can fall back upon their swamps and mountain
Businesses, and live, as MARION lived upon sweet
potatoes baked in the ashes of the camp fire. and
water from the brook. Pay, with them, is a
secondary consideration, for, having drawn the
sword and cast away the scabbard, they will fight
while there is a hand to grasp a weapon. nav or
no pay. Will the Northern soldiers do as much
Already they are clamoring loudly for their
money, and growing malcontent over Indifferent
ralment and worse food. We have put the dollar
and-cent view Of the question foremost because
OF the prevalent belief that it is the nont
which touches Northern people most nearly
But there is another phase of the subject
to which we have already more than once
called attention. 1t is the awful nature of war it.
sell, and especially of civil war. 1t is not the
number who fall in battle that makes war the most
terrible OF evils. This is as nothing when COM
pared with the loss Of life from other cauaes A.
thentc documents, compiled from the archives IF
the war Department at Paris prove, beyond con-
troVerSy that from the commencement Of tho ,,or
OF the Revolution 10 the overthrow of N,po,,oy
lhe ievieS OF soldiers in France exc eedad fam, mil
'It0nS, and that not less than three ,;yz;o,,a IS
"these persisted in the field, the hosptaI and tho
'b!Vouac." 1t las been well said that eva,
when we have summed up, in all the magnitude
oil figures, the al palling destruction of life which
Is thus exhibited, we have only faint and remote
Of the sufferings and evils inflicted NV
war. Death on the battle field is the ightest ca
amlty OF all. We must count the burned towns
and villages, the devastated haryests, the ruined
commerce, the nlassacreS and outrages commit |
''ted upon non-combatants, old men, and women
''and children, and the grief, despair and desola-
''uon carried into innumerahle families There
Is no mention made In the bulletins of the thou
sands that die in the hospital or by the wayside:
OF the hearts that are crushed when son. or hus
baud, or father, dies; of the atrocities that war
sanctions; Of the morality that war sans: of the
shame that war nfctS; Of the vices that war en-
eenders; of the awful reta!ialious that war pro-
vokes we are happily left in ignorance Of these
things; but who does not know that, if record
oil them conId be published, the horrors thus re-
veaied would be appalling. Even after a great
battle we catch urid gimpses of The slaughter, and
mutilation, aud agony which accompany the con-
liict and make terrible its close. Sir CHARLES
BELL, the eminent English Surgeon. writipo TO
Mr. FRANCIS Homer, states that when the victory
at Waterloo had been won, be was engaged for
eight successive days, from six in the morninn
uutll seven in the evening, knile in hand at the
table, amputating limbs and performing
all the higher and more dangerous branches of
he was but one out of hundreds Of
o'herS VINO at the same time, and in the same
ne'ghhorhoo0, were also busily employed in the
performance Of similar duties.
What evils follow in the train of an army of
INVASION, let recent English writer state
Nobody sees battle. = 1t is well. for
''a-b battle is of those Jobs which men do with
'out daring to look upon. Over miles of coun-
Try, at every field fence, in every gorge of val
ley, or entry into wood, there is murder COM
initung-wholesale, continuous, reciprocal MUIR
der. The human form Gods ilaare-is muti.
lated deformed laceraied in every possible wav,
ana win every variety Of torture The wounded
are 'ed OH IN carts to the rear their barred nerves
crushed INTO maddening pain at every stone or
fu'; or the fight and pursuit trample over them,
leaving them to Shrek aud wi,he without assist
ance-and fever and thirst the most enduripn Of
painful sensations, possess them entirely Thirst,
100, has seized upon the yet able-hodied soldier.
VINO, win bioodshot eyes and tongue lolling out.
phes his notwithstanding, killing with saw |
age delight, callous when the brains of his hest
loved comrade are spattered over him.
But civil war is deader and more hateful in
Ill It's aspects Than any war between foreign foes
AN possibly be; and those cold-booded men who |
ire STRIVING to ncuicate the beli,f that harmony |
'nd mutual affection will grow out of it. are
guilty OF gross and wiful deception. There is
10 lend so bitter in its expression, and so per |
uaheht IN its effects, as q family sc,i
ana when such feud as that which now EXISTS |
between the North and South is subjected to the |
'FOItramsnt Of the sword but one of two results
HNSt l'HoW-the utter destruction of the Southern |
People and possession of the Southern States by
'ght OF coDquest--or the triumph of the Southern |
a'use and permanent separation from the North. |
nat the South will come ont of this conflict victo
oFiouS we no more doubt than that the sun shines
'r ihat MOWERS bloom in their season. Every step |
NAT the Northern trools advance into the heart of
lfgina, will but add greater intensity to the
oa'hing with which they are already regarded =
They may say that they are there fer "the enforce
ment of the laws" but the very spirit of the laws
themselves is adverse to their enforcement nv acts
Of cruelty and violence. War comprehends the
extreme of both. 1t does more; it brings into |
'reest exercise the ferces and worst passions. 1t
S''t'terS the entire social fabric, d-secrates the
altar, converts churches into barracks, laws IN
ashes private dwellings or riddles them with shot
and SHE'LL encourages spies TO ply their degrading
occupation in the midst of every community. and |
Saddest sight of all, its bloody footsteps NAV be
Traced by the wailing of innumerabe families
wrecked in hope, bankrupt in means, and moving |
over The mangled bodies of those they loved. Yet
HENRY WINTER DAVIS and his radical Republicsn
associates complacently justify such Wholesale
slaughter and assert that the preparation of the
manifold atrocities that war engenders will restore
In the hearts of the Southern people, a profound |
attachment to the Union in whose name these |
evils are to b. inflicted and to the Northern sec
aft hos hon dc tna,,