The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1861-02-02
Havoc Of Life by War.

1t is difficult to conceive what fearful
havoc this custom has made of human life.
Some Of its incidental ravages seem to
defy belief. 1t has at times entirely de-
populated immense districts. In modern,
as well as ancient times, large tracts have
been left 50 utterly desolate, that one
might pass fr8n village to village, even
from city to city, without finding solita-
ry inhGbitant.
The war of 1856, wGged in the heart
Of Europe, left in one instance no less than
twenty contiguous villages without a sim
Clio man or beast. Tile thirty years war,
in the seventh century, reduced the popu-
lation Of Germany from 100000 to
! 5000 ,0C0--.hree fourtls; and that of
| Wirtemburg from 100000 to $4,000
more than nine-tenths Thirty thousand
villages We're destroyed in many others
the population entirely died out and in
districts once studded with towns and
cities, there sprung 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, in the 10th century, 10000 victims
of mere hunger in that of MolpIaquet,
$4,000 soldiers alone in that of Ismail,
1000 of Vienna, 10000; of Ostend,
10000 of Mexico, 10000; of Acre,
800, 600 of Carthage, 100000 of Jeru-
salem, 100000.
Mark the slaughter of single battles
at Lebanto, $4,000; at Austerltz, 10000 !;
at Eylau, 10000 at Waterloo and Qua
tire Bras, one engagement in fact, 10000 !;
at BorodinO, $4,000 at FOntenOy 100,-
900 at A,bcla, 100000; at Chalons,
100000 Of Attila's army alone, 100000
| sipctes slain by Julius Caesar in one bat
tie, and 10000 Germans in another.
Take only two eases more. The army
of Nerxes, saws Dr., Dick, must have
amounted to J,2S3,32Q and if the at
tendauts were only one-tlird as great rs
common at the present day in Eastern
countries, tie sum total mist have reach
ed nearly six millions. Yet in one year,
this vast multitude was reduced, though
not entirely by death, to 100000 fighting
men and Of these only 5000 escaped de-
struction. Jcngliz- Khan, the terrible raw
ager of Asia in the 18th century, shot
10000 on the plains Of Nessa, and massa-
cred 100000 ut the storning of Charasm.
In the district Of Ilcvat, he butcher,d
100000, AMI in two cities with their
dependencies, 10000 During the last
twcnty-sevcn years of his long reign, he
is said to have massacYed more than half
million every year and in the first
fourteen years, he is supposed by Chinese
historians, to have destroyed not less than
eighteen millions Il snm total Of y, 600, o
600 in forty-one years.
IL any way, what fell DESTROYER Is
war Napn'co = VI + sacrificed full six
millions, ana all ;!.e wars consequent upon
the French Revolution some nine or ten
millions. The Spaniaris are said to have
destroyed in folty-two years more than
twelve millions Of American Indians Gre
c;an wara sacrificed lj,G00,O00 jewish
wa,s, 2j,c010OO the wars of the twelve
c ,sars, 3r,OOO,OnJ, in all the was If
i Roman before julius CUaar; co.
Ou}.1JG IT." VaI- Gf the N,,aan Empire,
o. .h. SaYay-is aui the Turks, CG.C1G,-
600 each ,has. Of the Tartars, S0G00,-
coo; those O.; Africa, IGJ,3,0,OOD. "If
We take into consideration" SAYS the
learned DR.. Dick, 'rLo number not Only of
n 500 who hay, t,!l.a in battle, but Of.
;..s' who have persisted through tie nat
u.al c1uaeiUchc,, Of war, it viii not pen
haps be oy,uatiug tlr destruction Of Lu-
man l.f,, II We affirm tLat ouc-tcu;h OF The
human race has been destroyed by tn.
rayag,s uI war and according to thi; cs-