Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-10-05
The Journal.

HAVOC OF LIFE By WAR.-It 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 so
utterly desolate, that one might pass from village
TO village, and even from city to city, without
finding solitary inhabitant. The war Of 1856,
waged in the heart of Europe, left in one instance
not less than twenty contiguous villages without
n single man or beast The Thirty years war
in the 7th century reduced the population of
Germany from 100000 TO 3,000,0OO, three
fourths, and that of Wurtemburg from 500 900 to
48 000-more than nne-tenthsl Thirty thousand
villages were destroyed in many Others the
population died out and in districts once stud
ded with towns and Cities there sprang up i'm
mense forests.
Look at the havoc sieges-in that of London
derry, $4,000 soldiers, besides vast number of
inhabitants in that of Paris, in the 10th century,
10000 victims Of mere hunger in that OF lSmal
10000; of Vienna, 10000; OF Ostend, l2,0OO
of Mexico, $50 900 of Acre, 100000; of Car
tbage, zoe, 900; Of Jerusalem, 100000!
Mark the slaughter of single battles-at Lep-
Onto rs. 600: Austerltz, 10000 at Eyau, 10000,
at Waterloo and Quartre Bas, one engagement in
fact 100, 900 at Arbela, 300,0 900: at Chal0ns,
300 900 of Attilla's army alone 400, 900 Uspptes
slain by Julias Caesar in one battle, and 1000
Germans in another.
Take only two cases. The army Of XPrxes, says
DR.. Dick, must have amounted TO 5,2S3000; and
if the attendants were only one third as great as
common, at the present time in eastern countries,
the sum total must have been 6,0000O0. Yet in
one year this vast multitude reduced, though
not entirely by DEATH to 100000 fighting men,
and of these only 5000 escaped destruction
Jenghiz Kahn, the terrible ravager OF Asia in The
18th century, shot $4,000 on the plains Of Nessa,
and massacrcd 200, 900 at the storminG of Char
asm. In the Herat district he butchered 600
900, and in two cities, with their dependencies,
10000 During the last twenty seven years
OF this long reign, he is said to have massacred
more than million every year and in the first
fourteen years be is supposed by Chinese histOr-
ans to have destroyed not less than lS 900 GOO a
sum total of 32.O00,000 in forty one years. In
any view, what fell destroyer is war NapOle-
on's wars sacrificed some 100000 and all the
wars consequent on the French Revolution some
100000 or 10000 000 The Gpanards said
TO have destroyed in forty-two years. more than
12,000,000 of American Indians-grecan wars
sacrificed 100000; Jewish wars, 1000 eco ;
the wars of the IL Caesars, 30,000,00O; in all the
wars of the Romans before Julias C9Sar, 6O.000,-
600 the wars of the Roman Empire. of the Sara
Gems and the Turks GO, 600, 900 each those of the
Tartars, so, 900, 900 each those of Africa. l00.-
000.00 " If we take iuto consideration" says
the learned Dick, " the number of not only those
who have fallen n the battle, but of those who
have perished through the natural consequence
of the war, it will not, perhaps, be overrating the
destruction of human life il we affirm that one
tenth Of the human race has been destroyed hy
the ravages of war; and according TO this eSti-
mate, more than l4,000000,0 600 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 first at 10 less than $4,000, 100000