Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1864-08-18
From Halls Journal Of Health.
HISTOLOGY OF THE WAR.

diseased and degraded class; thss
either soon die or are killed off,
But there are examples not few
where the activities of the camp, it
discipline and its experience, hav
made invalids robust; have impartet
q higher moral tone to some, ant
given character and energy to others
who before were by common consen
considered to be inarSe and worthless
When a man OF good common
education and some steadiness o.
character. goes to war and fairly
engages in battle, he Is thereafter
until his dying day. more7of a man
then he ever was before. No one
ofeven common observation can have
failed to notice in the face of retur.
ned veteran regiments as they have
marched along our streets, stereoty-
ped cast Of countenance, common to
all; there is an imprint of sternness
on every face; of determination, and
an elevation ofspirit, despite of tat
tered garments and solid clothing
and the dust and sweat of a long
march; as much as to say, 1 have
been fighting for my country.I have
imperiled my life to maintain liber-
ties aud her unity; these are the first
things my mission is godlike, to wit:
to maintain liberty and the right fof-
eyer! Amen.
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When this war ends, much of the
scuf and scum of society will have
disappeared, and nine out of ten of
those who return from victorious bat
tie fields will be made better. sterner,
more manly members of society than
ever before. The most of the great
soldiers of history were men Of sim
pie tastes, quiet manners, aud of uu-
assuming department This is the
tendency of war. to lop of excres.
cences, to consolidate, determine
ton and seifreliance. and to mould
the whole man Alright This war will
leave more men in the, country than
were fonnd in At the day Su inter
was fired at and fell. 4F
Official reports Of European coun-
tries have shown that more boy chill
dren are born in war than in time of
peace, and that although at the end
of the wars ofthe First Napoleon. it
was rare to findaa Frencaman over
five feet three, there was recupera
- B-the next age. and now the
asetage height of the men does. not,
vary much from what it was before
the Directory.
AS soon as the war closes there
will inevitably be a universal fnan-
cial crash; in five years thereafter
the country will exhibit degree of
solid prosperity and national power
which can defy the world, besides;
an amount of cotton will he raised
annually. which will astonish all civil
lized nations. Why?
War makes men determined, self
reliant men; such men have degree
OF self respect which idlers never
dreamed of; these characteristics will
impel them to labor: to Intelligent
labor, to labor well directed Five
years ago, manya planter had from
five hundred to five thousand acres
Of land, of which few hun irei only
were cultivated; the renal nder was
held in reserve for children who
were growing up with the expectation
Of fortune and with the full cal I
to live in ease AMI luxury,
10 end in life ofidleness. intemper-
ance, and debauchery. Five wears
hence there will be ten households
instead Of one, to every Thousand
acres; there will be ten families in
steaC of one to be supplied with
school books, and libraries; with the
ubiquitous newspaper; the weekly
Journal and the monthly magazine
Ten families will want a sewing
a piano, a reaper and a
wringer. where one does now.
Ten neat cottages win spring up.
where was seen but five years since
a solitary planters house, never pa
pered, seldom plastered, and always
IN a il0re or less unfinished condi-
ton. Intelligence will not plant
teeming soil with corn and potatoes
at price of twenty dollars al.
acre when it can raise a hundred
dollars worth of cotton. and some
5imes three hundred dollars wortl
with less labor. /
That country is strongest. is most
and can best defy all out
side actions, which is marked off into
farms of forty, fifty, or hundred
acres, instead of embracing ten or
twenty oil these in one partially titled
So that aside from the
mere question of slavery there will
be benefits arising from this war
which will present an encouraging
front compared with the opposite
phases.
The ravage of war as to human
life is exaggerated in almost all
and is never so great 1t seems
to be. Many of the soldiers who
sicken and die in the hospitals would
have sickened and died at home;
while the proportion Of all who die
from wounds is astonishingly small,
and some of these would have peris-
he'd by accident had they remained
at home.
It cannot be denied that war is al
ways curse and can seldom, if
ever fail TO be q sin. hnt as in the