The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-01-20

0IF THE LIVING WILL NOT HEAR THE LIv-
ING, LET THE DEAD SPEAK E-How many
human lives have been sacrificed by this cruel
and relentless war? Hon. Thadeus Ste
vens made a speech last session OF Congress,
winter of 1898, in which he stated that Il
loo, 900 men had been mustered into the Uni
ted States service, Of swhich number only AGO.
900 men remained fit for service. The bal
ance of this host, SOC, 900 men, had either
been killed in battle, died of disease or wounds
or been disabled. Since then there have been
some of the. greatest and fercest. battles of the
war, and large accessions to the military force,
by conscription and voluntary aenllstments
have been made. ToAthe zoe, 1000 above,
may be added at least 100000 more, making
in all l JOG, 900 men destroyed or disabled.
If Northern accounts ofscausaltiestin battle
and otherwise be correct, the South has lost
more than two to one Dis compared With the
North. This will give 100000 men as the
Southern loss. which, added to the Northern,
makes 1000, 900. 1t will not be an ~oyeresti-
mate to put the number killed, or who have
died from wounds, etc, at 1000, 900 men.
How much space would it require to bury,
side by side, this enormous host of dead men,
allowing four feet to each grave, and the
space between ? One mile in length contains
$3.50 feet, and will bury thus, 1920 men.ws
How many miles will it require to bury 2,0O0,-
600 men Just Isis Z miles! Or sup
pose we place the dead lcngthwise, allowing
six feet for the grave, and two feet for the
space between. On one mile could be buried
600 dead. How many miles required to bury
1000, 900? The answer is3, 030 10 33 miles.
Suppose a man to walk, day by day, thirty
five miles, it would require over eighty-six
days continuous walking to pass from one end
of this "Golgotha' to another ! Nearly three
months to pass by the last resting-place Of
brothers destroyed in battle, because the
words, "No compromise aoih traitors !" had
gone forth from headquarters, and was taken
up and re-echoed by the f~anatical masses
throughout the whole North. The word
"compromis use" uttered in q patriotic and fra
ternal spirit, and these thousands of miles of
grave yards and billions of indebtedness had
had no existence.
When man rebelled against his Creator,
the words; "No compromise ]" were not pro-
claimed against him, else to-day he had been
enduring a punishment that was to be eternal.
On the contrary, Omuipotence proposed. a
compromise-devised a plan of redemption,
and said to man, 81 offer you terms, through
the sacrifice of my only begotten Son. Ac-
eept the terms and be saved ~ But this Ad-
ministration, and its f~anatical supporters, are
greater, purer and wiser than God
Let us present the question in q somewhat
different light. In war times, the killed are
mostly buriedfin great pits and trenches, like
dogs +!
To give two million dead decent burial, how
many men will be requisite? Say that it will
require, to make the collins, the shrouds, dig
the graves and inter, four persons to bury
thus six dead in one day, what number will
It require to bury two million in SIX days ?
Answer-222,222 men A larger army than
the great Napoleon ever commanded !
A few years more followed by such de-
struction of life, and the Gov eminent can
form this graveyard, that would reach from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. The masses
of the people North seem to have declared in
favor of such q magnificent idea What q
theme for a Beecher, a Cheever, a Chase, a
Seward ;,or a Sumner! Only think OF, it, a
line of "dead heroes and PATRIOTS" reaching
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ! What
an eloquence and poetry in the thought =
Reader, tread lightly ] Breathe not a word
of charity, humanity or Christianity here y
Ignore all such vulgar thought or idea, and
let the heart wen only in devotion to Moloch,
the God of blood and slaughter. But let the
disciples of Moloch beware The day of ven
geance comes on apace, when God, through
an outraged and betrayed people, will fake
vengeance npon the perjured, and lin who
hath betrayed His trust. y Washington Conssi
tut.on. - n
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