The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-03-22
Havoc of Life by War.


havoc this custom has made OF human life.
Some Of its incidental rsvsges seem to
defy belief. 1t has, at times. entirely de-
populated Immense districts. In modern
as well ancient times, large tracts have
been left so utterly desolale, that one
might pass from village 10 village. and
even from city TO city, without finding a
solitary inhabitant. The war Of 1856,
waged iu the heart Of Europe, left in one
instance, not less than twenty contiguous
villages without single man or beast J.
The thirty years war in the l7h century
reduced the population Of Germany from
100000 TO 5000, ,O00-,hree- -fourths
and that Of Wurtemburg from 500, 900 to
48, ,o0O--more than nine -lenths Thirty
thousand villages were destroyed in
many others the population entirely died
out; and in districts once studded with
towns and cities, there sprang up immense
forests.
Look at the havoc OF seiges--in that OF
Londonderry, 10000 soldiers, besides a
vast number of inhabitants ; in that oi
Paris, in the 9th century, $4,000 victims
of mere hunger in thai Of Molphaquat,
"a 600 soldiers alone; in that of Ismail
40, QUO of Vienna, 10000; of Oslend,
10000; of Mexico, $50, 900; of Acre,
800. 900; Of Carthage, 100000; OF Jeru'
salem, 100000
Mark the slaughter Of single battles--at
Leponto, 25000; at AusIerlilz, $4,000
at Elyau, GO, 200; at Waterloo and Quar-.
tire Bras. one engagement in fact, 100. 900
at Borodno, 10000 at Fountenoy, 100,
600 at ArbeIa, 800, 900; at Chalons,
300, 900 OF Attilla's army alone 400. 900
Usipetes slain BY julius Caesar in one
battle, and 430, 900 Germans in another
Take only two cases. The army OF
Xerxes, says DR.. Dick must have amounted
TO s, 283, $50 ard il the attendants were
only nsthird rs great as common al the
present time in Eastern countries, the sum
total must have 100000. Yet in one
year this vast multitude was reduced
though not entirely by death, 10 800.000
fighting men, and Of those only 5000 es.
capped destruction. Jenghiz Khan, the
terrible ravager of Asia in the 18th ceH-
fury. shot 1000 on the plains OF Nessa,
and massacred goo. 900 ct the storming of
Charasm. In The FIerat district he butch
cred 1.6OO. 900, and in two cities, with
their dependencies, I.700. 900. During
the last twenty-seven years OF this long
reign, he is said to have massacred more
than half million every year and in
The 6rst fourteen years he is supposed by
Chinese historians 10 have destroyed not
less than 100000, sum total Of 32,-
900, 900, in forty one years.
In any view, what fell destroyer is
war |! Nspoleon's wars sacrificed some
5000, 900, and all the wars consequent
on The French Revolution some 5000, ,00U
or l0,0U0,0o0. The Spaniards are said
to have destroyed in forty-two years, more
than IL 900, 900 OF American Indians
Greciam wars sacrificed $4,000, 900 -
Jewish wars, 5000, 900; the wars OF the
l2 Cesars, 80. 600. 900; in all the wars OF
the Romans before Julius Caesar, 60. 000.-
900 the wars OF the Roman Empire, Of
the Saracens and the Turks. GO, OO0, 900
each; those Of the TaItsrs, $4,000, 900 |;
those Of Africa, 400, 900, 900. "If We
take into consideration, says the learned
DR.. Dick, "the number Of not only those
who have fallen in the battle. but Of
those who have perished through the
natural consequence Of war. it will not,
perhaps. be overrating the destruction OF
human life il we affirm that one-tenih OF
the human race has been destroyed by
the ravages Of war and according to this
estimate, more than $4,000, ,000.O Of
human beings have been slaughtered in
war since the beginning Of the world."--
Edmund Burke went still further. and
reckoned the sum total OF its ravages from
The frst at no less than 5000, ,000, 900.