Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-03-05
Havoc orLIfe hr war

u Is ciihcult to conceive what fearful
havoc tins custom has made Of human life
Some OF its incidental ravages seem 10 defv
belief. Ii has ut times entirely denonnlsted
immense districts. In modern a. vel =,
ancient times large tracts have been left
80 utterly desolate that one might mass from,
village 10 village, even from city TO city.
without finding solitary inhabitant The
war Of 1856. waged in the heart Of Eurone.
left IN one instance no less than twenty
contiguous villages without man or beast
The thirty years war in the 18th century
reduced the population Of Germany from
100000 TO 5000. OO0-three fourths:
ard that Of Wertemborg from 500 coo to
4S,uOO-mOre than nine tenths thirty
thousand villages were destroyed; in many
others the population entirely died out;
and 10 districts once studded with towns
ana cities, there sprang mp immense for
ests.
Look at the havoc Of sieees-;n sb.. oe
Londonderry 1900 soldiers. besides { T.st
npnher ef iDbabilarfs Ia that of Pa-;s IN
The l6th century. 30 Coo victims ~ No.. Z.
hunger; in that Of Molplaquat. "a. 600 SOL
diers alone; in that Of Ismail, 4O. eco /: Of
Nienna. 10000; Of Ostend. IL, eco; of Mex.
ieo. 10000; Of Acre, 100000; Carthage.
100000; of Jerusalem, ], 900 goo!
Mark the slaughter Of single battles-at
Lepanto. $1,000; at Austerlitz, 80 600: M
Eylan, 6O.OO0; at Waterloo and Quartre
Bras. lone engagement. IN fact,) loo. 600 /:
at B,rodino. 50 600 at Fontenov. 100 600.
at Arbela. 800, 600; ut Chalons. 200. 600 of
ATLAS army alone; 400 600 Usipetes slain
by Julius Cesar in one battle, and 43S. 600
Germans in another.
Take only two caseE. The army ~
Aerxes. says DIR. Dick, must have amounted
to 5,2S3 800; and IL the attendants vere
only one-third as great as common al the
present time in the Eastern countries. the
sum total must have reached nearly 6.OOO.-
600. Yet in one year this vast multitude
was reduced, though not entirely by death.
to 100000 fighting men; and of these only
1900 escaped destruction. Jengbiz Khan.
the terrible ranger Of Asia in the 18th
century, shot 10000 on the plains Of Mesa
and massacred 200, COO at the s,ormino Of
Chlriasm. Ia the Herat district he butch.
cred 100000, and in two cities with their
dependencies 100000 During the last
p years Of his long reign. he is said 70 bare
massaered more than half million every
year; and IL the first III ye~rs, he is sup
posed, by Chinese histurians. TO have de-
strOyed not les 1900. coo; a sum total Of
80 100000 in IL yearsl
In any view. what fell DESTROYER IA
war! NapOleon's wars sacrificed some G..
OO,0OO, and all the wars consequent on
the French Rev, luton, some nine or ten
millions. The Spaniards are said te have
destroyed in u years, more than 10 OOO. 600
Of American Indians. Grecian wars sac
riheed 10 1000. coo; Jewish wars %. 600. 600:
the wars of the twelve Caesars 80. GOO. 600
in all the wars &C the Romans before Julius
Cesar, GO, Co., 900; the wars of the Roman
Empire, Of the Saraeens and the Turks.
60 OOO.OOO each: those Of the Tartars So
100000; those Of Africa, loo. OOO. COO!
"lf We take into consideration. saws
the learned DIR. Dick, 1.-THE number of not
only those who have persisted through the
natural consequences Of war. it will not
perhaps be overrating the destruction Of
human life, If we affirm that one tenth of
the human race has been DESTROYED by the
ravsges OF WAT; and according to this es.
innate, more than IA. 0O0. O00. coo of human
beings have been slaughtered iE war since
the beginning Of the world" Edmund
Burke went still further, and reckoned the
sum total Of its ravages, from the first. at
no less than IS, DOC, 0C0, 900.