Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-06-08
HAVOC OF LIFE BIZ WAR.

1t is difficult to conceive what fearful havoc
! this custom has made of human life. 1t has
! at times entirely depopnlated immense dis
! trcts. In modern as well as ancient times
| large tracts have been left 80 utterly desolate
that one might pass from village to village
even from city to city, without finding soil
tary inhabitant The war of 1855, waged ID
| the heart Of Europe, left 10 one instance nc
| less than twenty contiguous villages without
single man or beast. The thirty years war
the 7th century reduced the population o
| Germany l2,000000 to 3000,000,--three
fourths; and that of Wirtemburg from 500
| 900 to 4S,000,--more than ninetenths !
|sThirty thousand villages were destroyed r
many Others the population entirely died out
and in Districts once studded with towns and
cities there sprang up immense forests.
Look OF the havoc of seiges-in that o.
Londonderry 10000 soldiers, besides vast
number Of inhabitants in that Of Paris, in
the 18th century, 10000 victims of mere
hunger; in that of Malpaquent "a 900 sol
diers alone in that of lsmail, 40,000 o.
Vienna, 10000; Ostend, 120 900 OF Mexico
! 100000 of Acre, 100000; of carthage
100000; Of Jerusalem, 100000
Mark the slaughter of single battles-a'
Lepante, $4,000; Austerlitz, 10000; nt
Bras, one engagement in fact, 10000 at
Borodine, 10000; at Fontenoy, 100000
OF Arbela, SEQ 900 at Chalons. 100000 o
Attilla's army alone 100000 Usipetes, slain
by julius Caesar, in one battle, and 430,00C
Germans in another.
Talks only two cases more. The army ol
Xerxes, says Or. Dix, must have amounted
to 1882, ,320; and if the attendants we're only
one'third as great as common at the present
day at Eastern countries, the sum total must
have reached 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 1900 esca.
ped destruction. Jenghiz' X han, the terrible
ravager of Asia in the 18th century, shot
10000 on the plains of Nessa, and massacred
200, 600 at the storming of Charasm. In the
district Of Herat, be butche-ed 100000. and
in two cities with their dependencies, l,T00,.
600. During the last twenty seven years oi
his long reign, he is said to have massacred
more than half million every year; and i1
the first fourteen years, he is supposed, by
Chinese historians, to have destroyed not less
than eighteen millions; sum total to
thrty'two million in forty one years
liz any view, what fell destroyer is war
Napoleons wars sacrificed full six millions,
and all the wars consequent on the French
Revolution some nine or ten millions. The
Spanards are said to have destroyed in forty
two years more than twelve millions OF
American Indians. Grecian wars sacrificed
100000; Jewish wars 25,000,000; the
wars of the twelve CAESARS, thirty millions
in oil the wars Of the Romans before Julius
Caesar, sixty millions the wars OF the Roman
Empire, of the Saracens and the Turks,
sixty million cath those of the Tartars,
eighty millions those Of Africa 100000
COO! ''lf we take into consideration" says
the learned DR.. Dick, "the Dumber not only
Of those who have fallen in battle, but OF
those who have psrshed through the natural
consequences Of war, it will not perhaps be
oyerrating the destruction of human life, il
We affirm that one tenth Of the human race
has been destroyed by the ravages of war
and, according to this estimate more than
fourteen thousand millions of human beings
have been slaughtered in war since the
beginning of the world" Edmund Burke
went still further, and reckoned the sum total
to its ravages, from the first, at no less than
thirty.fve thousand millions.