Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1863-05-29
Miscellaneous.

THr IfsFrRLU Havoc OF WAR-It is diff
cult t1 conceive what fearful havoc the Gus
tom OF VT has made Of human life. Some
rI IT, iGril'5fsl ravdg's seem u defy belief
u hss ar lime.. entirely dcpopulated i'm
msnfe dos -irfs. In modern, as well as an
cjrn; times. large tracts have been left s1
uttsrlv d.s1lste tlfsr one might pas from
,Ilacc 10 vllls-t, even from city TO city,
without hn!iu- q solitary inhabltani. The
war of 1855. vsc,l in the heart OF Europe,
left. IN Hne instance, n3 jess than twenty
contigU lg, viila.es without singh ~ 40 or
beast. The tEiI'y y.aIs war, Ia The l1th
century. reduced tie population oi Germany
irlm l-,0Uh, ,OJU to 3,00O, 600 0-three-lourths.
and that of NIrtemburg from. 500 600 o.
g. f-.000-moTe than nine tcntbs Thirty
thousand Villages were destroyed In many
others tGe population entirely died out and
in districts once studded with towns and
cities. there sprang Gp immense forests.
Look a the havoc Of sieges IN that o.
Londonderry 1900 soldiers. besides vast
number Of inhabitants in that Of Paris. in
the sixteenth century, 50.0G0 victims Of
mere hunger in that Of Malplaquet, $1,000
soldiers alone IN that Of Ismail, 10 600 Of
Vienna. 10000 # Ostend. 10000 Of
Mexico. 80 900. Of Acre, 500 600; Of Car
thace. 700 600 Of Jerusalem, 900 600
Marx the slaughter If single batJlos-at
Terantc, p 600 a. AusterlitZ, 80, 600 at
Eylau, 6O.0C0. at Waterloo and Quatre
Bras, one engagement in fact. 100 ,0oa at
BorodIno, at Fontenoy, 100, ,0O0; at Arhela,
300 ,000 at Chalons, 800 ,000 Of Attila 's ar
my alone 100, 900 Usipetes slain by Julius
Cesar in one battle and 10000 Germans
n another
Take only two cs-1s. The army of Asr-
zes, saws Dr.. Dick. must have amounted q
S.2S3. .3o0 and If the attendants were only
one-tbird d great a. common at the present
time in eastern countries the sum total must
have reached nearly g 900 600. Yet, in one
wear, this vast multitude was reduced, though
not entirely hy death, 10 10000 fighting
men and Of these only 5000 escaped des-
truciion. Jenghls Khan, the terrible ravager
OF Asia in the thirteenth century, shot 40
900 on the plains OF Nassau, and massacred
200 600 al the storming of CharaIsm. In the
Herat district he butchcrod 500 600, and in
two cities, with the dependencies, Loo, ,00o.
Durins the last twenty-sevcn years Of his
long reign. he is said u have massacred more
than half million every year and, in the
fist fourteen years be Is supposed, by Chinese
historians, 70 have destroyed not less than
5000 000 SUM total Of 32,e00,0 900 in
forty one years
In anv view what fell destroyer is war
Napoleon'e wars sacrificed some 5000, 600;
and all the war; consequent upon the French
Revolution, some nine or ten millions. The
Sranisrds are said 70 have destroyed, in for
tv-two years, more than l., 600, 600 Of Am
erican lndisn. Circcian wars sacrificed
5000 .000 Jewish wars, 25 900 goo, the
wars Of the twelve Cesars, 1000 900; IN
all the wsrs Of the Romans, before Julius
Casssr. so eco 900 the wars Of the Roman
Fmrire, OF the Saraccrs and the Turks, co.
OOO.0O0 each those Of the Tartars S0,00O,-
600; tho-e Of Africa. l0e 600 600 If We
take into consideration, says the learned
Dr. Dick, "the number not only of thos'
who have fallen in battle. but of those
who have Terished through the natural con-
sequences of war. we viii not, perhaps, l.
overratin- the destruction of human life, It
we were 10 efhrIa that one-teDth OF the hn-
man race hss been DESTROYED by the ravaSe
of war; aud. according 10 tins estimate
more thsn u 600 900 600 Of human beings
have slaughtered in war since the beginning
of the world. " Edmund Burke went still fur
Their, and reokonod the sum total Of its nav
ages. from thz tiret. at No les- TINT '5."'p,
nG0. 600