The Nevada Democrat., 1861-10-03
Havoc OF LIS nv War.


1t is difficult TO conceive what fearful
havoc war has made Of hamaa life. Some
of its incidental ravaces seem 10 iefv All
belief. 1t has at times entirely depopuls-
ted immense districts In modern, as we'll
as ancient times. large tracts have heen
left so utterly desolate, that q traveller
might pass from village to village. even
from city TO city, without finding solitary
inhaoltant. The war of 1856, wagcd in the
heart of Europe, left in one instance no less
than twenty contiguous villages, without a
single man or beast. The Thirty Years
War, In the seventeenth century, reduced
the population of Germany from II. .OOo 900
to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS aBd that Of
Wurtemburg from 100000 to 4S,O0O-mope
than nine.tenths Thirty thousand villa
ges were destroyed ; in many others the
population entirely died out; aud in dis.
tricts once studded with towns and cities
there sprang up immense forests.
Look at the havoc of sieges--in that Of
Londonderry $4,000 soldiers, besides a vast
number Of inhabitants In that Of Paris. "a
the sixteenth century, $4,000 victims on
mere hunger !; and that of Malplaauet. a..
600 soldiers alone; in that of Ismal, 40. 600:
Of Vienna, 10000 /; of 0stend, 100000: OF
Mexico. 10000 of Acre, 800. Gee; of Car.
thage, 100000 of Jerusalem, 1. I.O0O. coo.
Mark the slaughter of single bat.les-ut
Lepanto, $4,000 at AusterIitz, 10000: At
Eylan, $4,000 at Waterloo and Ouartre
Bras-One engagement In fact-7O,OOO at
BOrodino, $4,000 at ATbela, 100000; at
Chalons, 100000 Of AtiIla's army alone
100000 Usipetes were slain by Julius Ca.
sar in one battle, and 43O, 900 Germans in
another.
Take only two cases more. The army OF
Xerxes, says DIR. Dick, must have amount.
ed to 5,283,320 and, il the attendants were
only one-thlrd as great as are common at
the present day in Eastern countries. the
sum total must have reached nearly 900.
600. Yet in one year, this vast multitude
was reduced, though not entirely by death,
to 100000 fighting men and of these only
5000 escaped destruction. Jenghis-khan.
the terrible ravager Of Asia, In the thir.
teenth century, shot 10000 on the plains
of Mesa, and massacred 100000 at the
storming of Kharasm. IN the district OF
Herat, he butchered l 900, 900, and in two
cities with their dependencies, 1852 600.
During the last twenty.seven years of his
long reign, he is said 10 have massaered
more than 100000 every year aRd in the
first fourteen years, be is supposed by Chi
nese historians to have destroyed not less
than 1S,0OO,000; a sum total of over 32.-
100000 in forty .one years.
In any view, what fell destroyer is war;
NapOleon's wars sacrificed full six millions
aud all the wars consequent on the French
Revolution, some nine or ten millions. The
SpaDiards are said to have DESTROYED. in
forty-two years., more than twelve millions
Of American Indians. Grecian wars sac
riiced fifteen millions Jewish wars, TWEEN.
ty-fVe millions; the wars of the twelve
Caesars, in all, thirty millions the wars OF
the Romans, before Julius Caesar, sixty mib
lions; the wars Of the Roman Empire. of
the Saracens and the Turks, sixty millions
each those of the Tartars, eighty millions:
those of Africa, one hundred millions.
DR.. Dick says that if we take into con
sideratiOn the number not only of those
who have fallen in battle, but of those who
have perished through the natural conse.
quences of war, IL will not be overrating
the destruction of human life, IL we affirm
that One-tentb of the human race has been
destroyed by the ravages of war aud, ac.
cording to this estimate, more than four
teen thousand millions of human beings
have been slaughtered 10 war since the be-
ginning of the world Edmund Burke went
still further, and reckoned the sum total of
its ravages, from the first, at no less than
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