Shreveport news., 1864-06-28
Stop the Fighting.-M Make thi,
Campaign the Last.

conservative press VI 'iiS -NN!'h. ne
New York News, speaking of the
terrible losses already sustained in
tn. campaign in Virginia. says:
I'VE are vet in the beginning of,his
campaign. and already we count tie
dead bv ,lousa IDS, and the wounded
bv tins Of thousands. I'h" contest
for Richmond has been ushcred in
with Il hilious saturnaiia of blood.
This havoc of the first few battles is
without parallel upon the red pages
J of human strife, unless we look far
back into the record of heather bar
barism, " hen slaughter was the Object
and not the instrument OF warfare.
1t is true that at rare intervals great
numbers have persisted upon siugle
fields. but never, in a military sense.
to 50 little purpose. Waterloo dccid-
ed the fate of Europe. The total loss
of the French was twcnty-six thous-
and three hundred: the battles ofthc
Wilderness, mdecisive. barren Of per,
ceptible results. and but the prelude
Of work more terrible Yet to be done,
have cost the North. as has been com
putrd, twenty five thousand men.
If weestimate the Confederate loss
as equal to ours, there IS til. aPpal!
ing list Of fifty thousand human be
'ings killed or disabled. at the ve-y
threshold of the campaign. Fifty
thousond human beings, in their
strength and :nanhood-as many as
institute the total population. men,
women and children, Of Il second class
civ. have been stricken down at the
very first collision, without bringing
the ISSUE near 70 It's close. When it
. is considered that fifteen thousand
wounded i. d,r&l soldiers are hnd-
died together in the streets of f'retrr-
icksburg. and that they are 4 portion
only ofthe victims thus far of thi~
. campaign. the extent Of the carnage
, can be more nearly realized. Every
better feeling affects the inhumau'ty
and folly OF prosecuting war that
: involves such waste Of life and serves
to accomplish 10 desirable end.
Whatever may he the military re
: suit OF this campaiGS, so terribly IN
a a.eurated, the lo,d that has been
e shed the blood lat viii be shed, must
~, ann,ol ~ ,,;r'n.,,;r.+ ,h. ,rolon.
CATION of this internal v ar. We can.
not believe that the people will con.
sent 10 repeat tl'se scenes Of mutua
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