The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-07-01

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the snarlest little sheet 10 New England =
showing wha, may he expected from Jeir
Davis twenty years war, The people Of the
South have already bad loreiasle Of It's
many aud horrible enormiIic., bat they have
not begun to realize in the faintest possible
degree what staie Of things twenty OF
even ten years war would inevitably bring
about.
The President Of he so-callel Southern
republic has promised his followers. IN case
Of defeat A. Richmond. twenty years war
on Virginia soil lie and HE ieludci PEG.
ple can have war as long IS they are able
and choose to wage il. They have already
seen something Of the tcrrors aud tasted
something Of the bitterness Of war. but they
probably have not the slightest conception
of the calamtes Of twenty years sirog-
gle. a picture Of . long war elsewhere may
enable the Imagination 10 pierce the lsis-yeil
Of the future, and to catch shndowy
glimpse Of accumulated ruin and desVhiion.
Gustav Frcytag, one Of the most brilliant Of
living German writers, has published book
entitled, " Pictures Of German Lite in the
Fifteenth Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centu-
ries." During these three esentfal centu-
ries war was the rule, peace the exception il
Germany Among Herr Freyiag's pictures
Of Teuionc life, pictures Of the famous Thir-
~ Years War are conspicuous The war
was self supporting, like the war o. Jenui-
son g jayhawkers in Southwestern Missouri,
like the war in general on the part Of the
South. What the lively German author mar
rates Of either party il the Thirty Years
War Is clearly true Of what Southern ar
my or guerilla band must doin case Of
lengthy contest" When a troop Of soldiers
entered village or country town, they
rushed like devils into the houses; wherever
the dung heaps were the largest, there The
greatest wealth wits TO be expected The
object Of the tor;urcs to which the inhah-
tants were subjected, was generally to es-
tort from them their hidden property The
plunderers took the Aints from their pistols
and forced the peasants thumbs IN their
place; they rubbed the soles Of their feet
with salt, and caused goats TO lick them;
they tied their hands behind their backs;
they passed a bodkin threaded with horse
hair through their tongues, and mored it
gently up aud down; they bound knotted
cord round their forehead and twisted il TO-
gethcr behind with stick they bound two
fingers together, and rubbed ramrod up
and down I'LL the skin aud flesh were burnt
TO the bone; they forced the victims into ov-
ems, lit the straw behind them, and 10 they
were obliged to creep through the flames.
Ragamuthns were everywhere to bc found
who bargained with the soldiers 10 betray
their own neighbors. And these we're not
the most horrible tormenis."
Thus did the army misoehays amongst the
people, robbing every house. devastating ey-
cry field, till they we're themselves involved
in the general ruin. And the destruction
Of these thirty years increased progressively.
II was the years from 1855 to 1871 which
annihilated the last power Of the nation;
from that period TO the peace dcathlike
lassitude prevailed the country; il commune
Gated itself 10 the armies, and one can casi-
ly understand that The bitter misery Of the
soldiers called for some consideration from
the citizens aud peasants.
In the domain o. Henneberg between the
years 1884 aud lC49. we're destroyed 81 per
cent Of the inhabitants, So per cent. Of the
horses, the same per cent. Of cattle. and 60
per cent Of the houses And what was true
Of the domain. Of lIenneberg, was true Of
the whole empire. Over Thuringis, after
lapse Of more than two centuries. still how
ers the death angel Of the thirty years war
So would il be with Virgins, i. BY any
chance, in the mysterious providence Of
God, the threat Of the rebels should b ear
red ont