Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-11

How many human lives have been sacrificed
by this cruel and relentless war Honorable
Thaddeus Stevens made speech last session
Of fCohgress, winter Of lS62-3, in which he
stated that one mllioa one hundred thousand
men had been mustered iuto the United States
service, Of which number only four hundred
thousend then remained 6t for service. The
balance of this host, seven hundred thousand
men, had either been killed IN battle, died of
disease or wounds, OF been dismissed Since
then there have been some Of the greatest aud
hercest battles OF the war, and large acces.
sions TO the military force by oonseription and
voluntary enlistment have been made. To
the seven hundred thousand above, may be
added al least four hundred thousand more,
making in all ono million one hundred thous-
and men destroyed or disabled
IL Northern accounts Of casualties in battle
and otherwise be corr ect, tho South has lost
more than two TO one as compared with the
North. This will give two million two hun.
dfod thousand men as the Southern loss,
which, adeed to the Northern, makes three
million three hundred thousand IL will not
be Rn over estimate to put the the number Of
killed. or who have died from wounds, etc f,
at two million men.
How much space would it require to bury
side by side, this enormous host Of dead men,
allowing four feet to each to each grave, and
the space betweeul One m'le in length, con-
tains 5,2S0 feet, aud will bury thus, 1920
men. How many miles will it require to
bury 1000, 900 menl Just ,5l5 Ii miles
Or suppose we place the dea lengthWise, al.
lowing six feet for the grave and two feet for
the space between. On one mile could be
buried 660 dead. How many miles required
to bury 2,000,000l The Answer is 3, ,030 1898
miles Suppose = man to walk, day by day
thirty.6ye miles, it would require over eighty
six days continuous walking to pass from one
end OF this "Golgotha' to anotherl Nearly
three months to pass by the last resting place
Of brothers destroyed in battle because tho
words--"No compromise with traitors r had
gone forth from headquarters, and was taken
up and re echoed by the ianatical masses
throughout the whole North. The word
"comproRliSs, uttered in patriotic aud fra
ternal spirit, aud these thousands Of miles Of
grave yards, and billions of Indebtedness had
had no existence
When man rebelled against his Creator, the
words mo Compromise p were not proclaim
ed against him, else to-day he had been en-
during a punishment that was to be eternal -
On the contrary, Omnipotence proposed n
omPromise-devised u plan of redemption,
and said to man 81 offer you terms through
the sacrifices Of my only begotten Son. Ac-
cept the terms and be saved - But this Ad-
ministration, and its ianatcal supporters are
greater, purer, and wiser than God
Let us present the question in somewhat
different light In war times, the killed are
mostly buried in great pits, and trenches, like
dogs
To give two million dead decent burial, how
many mon 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 be re-
quirSd to bury two million in six dnys2 An,
swer; two hundred and twenty thousand two
hundred and twenty-five men A larger army
than the great Napoleon ever commanded
A few years more followed by such destruc-
tiOn OF life, aud the Government can form a
grave yard, that would resch from the Allan.
tic to the Pacific oceanl The masses of the
people North seem to have declared in favor
Of such a magnificent ideal What thema
for Beecber, Cheever, a Chase, Seward,
or Sumner Only think of it, line of
dead heroes and patriots reaching from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific oceanl What elo-
quence and poetry in the thought Reader,
tread lightly Breathe not word of charity,
humanity or Christianity herel Ignore ali
such vulgar thonght or idea, and let tho
heart swell only in devotion to Moloch, the
God Of blood and slaughter. But let the dis
ciples Of Moloch bewarel The day of ven.
gesnce comes on apace, when God, through
an outraged and betrayed people, will take
vengeance upon the perjured; and him who
hath hatravad HE truat