Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-06-10

gained by managing twenty five thousand
men and its marches and evolutions we're
within an area less extensive than the
State of Virginia, ,..
THE ENGLISH REBELLION.
The great civil war of England, known
as the "Great Rebellion was also con.
hct between the oligarchs and the com.
mons-called again the Cavaliers and the
Roundheads-ca! again, more appro-
pria,ely, the King and the Parliament
1t divided England horizontally-the king
and lords and bishops on one side, and the
commons on the other and it decided the
question forever, whether constitutional
government was q possible boon to the
English race.
The war opened in l742 and continued
seven years. 1t would probably have
been finished in half that time. but for the
hesitancy and half measures of Essex, the
! first Parliamentary General. The first
conflict Of Edeehil, has its exact parallel
in An.ictam. 1t was drawn battle; both
parties laying all night on their arms but
in the morning Hampden came up with
four thousand fresh men. julius Cesar
would have followed up quickly the former
days work, aud with blow upon b 'ow fin,
ished the loyaliSts ard the war. Instead
| Of this, the armies "lookcd at eaEh olher,'
dreaded to renew the fight, and drew Of,
each by himself. much TO the chagrin and
disgust of Hampdcp. Five thousand were
left slain upon the feld-slan to no pur
| pose, as nothing was decided. 50 things
went en-, till Oliver Cromwell came with
his "ironsidcs regiment" aud at the deos
i've battle of Naseby, dashed upon the
Kings forces and shivered them in pieces
We may smile, 81 reading over these
great battles, At the numbers engaged -
They varied from twenty to twenty five
| thousand men on each side, never exceed.
| ing the latter number The battle Of Mar.
| ston Moor was the most obs :inately cou
tested between the most numerous ar
mics that were engagnd during the course
of these wars" and in that battle, as
I Hume laments, fifty thousand troops we're
led to mutual slaughter Such was the
! price paid; the end achieved free govern
meut for the English race everywhere.--
The writer in the Religion Mouth!p de.
| duces from the facts he ~lates several ar.
guments. First comes one in favor Of the
cultivation Of nation military spirit as
the surest way of avoiding the shedding
of blood. Caesar. in . three years war
between the Cesarears and Pompeians,
lost fewer men than Mcclellan did in u
single campaign on the Peninsula. In,
deed, It's said moro lives have been lost
in our present war than the great civil
wars of Greece, Rome and Finland put to
gether; and this might have been avoided
had the NORTH been a military people.
THE EFFECT OF INTERVENTION.
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from which our present civil war to save
us. Resolving the Union iuto thrtp.six
State sovereignties wouik place US exactly
where the Greek Autouomies were ploced
in their struggle Of twenty seven years.
1t means mutual slaughter and finale col.
lapse, until some stronger third power
comes in and adjusts the bleeding fras
ments. Persia finally intervened" in
favor Of Sparta, and her hateful desro.
tism was pressed down upon all the States
Of Hsllas and her lovely islands. Thebes
finally rebelled against it, led on by the
great Epaminoldas; and a second series
Of civil wars brought on more complete
exhaustion, aud Q more deadly collapse
Philip Of Maccedon next intervened,'
aud crushed them still lower into the
dust, amid the dying thunders Of Demos
themes, and the fading glories of the Gre.
clan name. Next Rome "iutervencd,'
aud conquered Macedonia, and both
Macedonia and He!las went down togeth.
er under the iron heel. Next the Turk
"intervened,' aud Rome, in all her Eas-
tern empire, involving Greece with her
ancient States and beautiful isles, was
eclipsed in . more baleful dsspo,ism aud
in heather night. a,
Such are the last results of autonomy
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, mutual hate and slaugh.
ter, national extinction, determination aud
DEATH. So the lovelest form Of ancient
civilization, in democracy just rising to
the gloriss of empire, was sacrificed to the
insane notion Of petty State sovereignty
and when We now ask, Where 10 Hellas ?
We are only answered by poets, who sing
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