Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-01-24
Havoc VI Life ny war

tits difficult to- conceive what fearful
havoc this custom has male of human
life. Some of its Incidental ravages
seem to deiy belief. 1t hss at times en-
,relv depopulated immense DISTRICTS
In modern as we'll as ancient tirHes, large
tracts have been left so utterly desolate
that one might pass from village to viii
lage, even from city to city, without
finding solitary inhabitant. The war
of 1856 waged in the heart Of Europe
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
10000. 900 to 5000, ,000--three -tourths;
and that of Wurtcmburg from 500, 900
10 4s,000-more than nine-tenths! Thir-
" thousand villages were destroyed; in
many others the population entirely died
out; and in districts once studded with
towns and cities, there sprang up i'm
Mense forests.
look at the havoc Of sieges-in that OF
Londonderry 10000 soldiers, besides a
vast number Of inhabitants; in that Of
Paris in the 10th century. 1000 victims
of mere hunger; in that Of Molplaquat,
$4,000 soldiers alone; in that Of OF lsmail
10000 of Vienna, 10000; of Ostend,
12,006; Of Mexico, .150. 200; of Acre,
100000; Of Carthage, zoe, 900; of Jeru-
salem. 100000!
Mark the slaughter Of single battles
at Lepanto, 25, 900; at Ansterlitz, 30,-
600: at Eylau. 60,000 at Waterloo and
Quartre Bras. one engagement in fact,
100, 900; at Borodino, SO,OOO at Fonte-
noy, 100, 900; at Arbela. 300. 900; at
Chalons, 800, 900 Of Atilla's army alone;
100000 Usipctes slain by Julius Caesar
in one battle, and 430, 600 Germans in
another
Take only two cases. The army OF
Xerxes, says Dr. Dick, must have amount
ed to 1888, 800; aud if the attendants
were only one-third as great as common
at the present time in the Eastern coun
tries, the sum fetal must have reached
nearly 100000 Yet in one year, THU
vast multitude was reduced, though no
entirely by death, to 800, 900 fghtin;
men; and Of these only 5000 escaped de
struction. Jenghiz Khan, the terrible
ravager Of Asia in the 18th century, sho
10000 on the plains of Nessa, and mas
sacred 200, 900 at the storming of Chair
ssm. In the Herat district, he butchere,
10000, and in two cities with thei
dependencies, 100000. During tn
last 27 years of his long reign, he is san,
10 have massacred more than half a mill
ion every year; and in the first IA, yecrs
he is supposed by Chinese historians. t,
have destroyed not less than $4,000, 900
sum total of 32,000000 in al years!
In any view. what fell destroyer i
war! Napoleon's wars sacrificed som
5000 900, and all the wars consequen
on the French Revolution, some nine O
ten millions. The Spaniards are said
TO have destroyed in AZ years, more tha
$4,000, 600 of American Indians. Gre
clan wars sacrificed $4,000, 900; JEWS
wars 25, 900, 000 the wars of the twelv
Cpsars 30, 900, 900; in all the wars of tn
Romans before Julius Caesar, 60, 600, 00
the wars Of the Roman Empire, Of tn
Saracens and the Turks, 60, 900, 900 each
those of the Tartars, S0,0O0,000; thos
OF Africa, 100, 600, ,000 "If we take in
to consideration" says the learned DR.
Dick; "the number of not only those wh'
have fallen in tho battle, but of those whit
have perished through the natural conso
quences of war, it will not perhaps b.
overrating the destruction Of human life
if We affirm that one tenth Of the human
race has been destroyed by the ravages o
war: and according to this estimate, NOR
than $4,000. 100000 OF human beings
have been slaughtered in war since tn
beginning of the world" Edmund Burk
went still further. and reckoned the sun
total of its ravages. from the first, at n
tess than 1000, 900, 900.