Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-09

| Hampton. Five thousand were left slain
upon the 6eld-slain to no purpose, as no
thing was decided. So things went on, till
Oliver Cromwell came with his 'irousids
regiment and, at the decisive battle of
Haseby, dashed upon the kings forces, and
shivered them in pieces
"We may smile, on reading over these
great battles, as the numbers engaged =
They varied from twenty to twenty. I've
| thousand men on each side, never eI-
ceedtng the latter number. The battle
| of MArstou Moor was the most obsti-
ustely contested, between 'the most uu-
merious armies that we're engaged during
the course of these wars and in that bat
tie, as Hume laments, fifty thousasd British
troops were led to the slaughter. Such was
the price paid; the end achieved Wss free
government for the English race every
whereH
The writer in the RsEfgioas Monthly de-
duces from the facts he relates several ar
gumeuts. First comes one il favor of the
cultivation of national military spirit as
the surest way of avoiding the shedding Of
blood. Wars anskiltuliy waged are the
bloodiest of sll. Cesar, in three years
war between the Cessreans and Pompei-
ans, lost fewer men than Mcclellan did in
single campaign on the Peninsula In
deed, it is satd, more lives have been lost
in our present war than the great civil
wars of Greece, Rome and England put
together; and this might have been avoided
had the North been military people.
TEz zyEEcT OF 1zTEa7sHTIoN.
''It is we'll to look into the gulf Of ruin
from which our present civil war is to save
Us. Resolving the Uuion into thirty-six
State so7ereiguties would place Us exactly
where the Greek Autouomies were placed
in their struggle of twenty seven years =
It means mutual slaughter and 6ual col
lapse, until some stronger third power
comes in aud adjusts the bleeding f-ag-
ments. Persia finally 'iuter7eued' il ia
Vor of Sparta; aud her hateful despotism
was pressed down upon all the states of
6eiIss and her lovely Islands, Thebes fu-
ally rebelIed against it, led on By the great
Epaminandas; aud a second series Of civil
wars brought ou more complete exhaust
ion, and more deadly collapse Philip
Of Maeedon next sintervened,' and crushed
them still lower into dust, amid the dying
thuuders OF Deuostheues, and the fading
gIories Of the Greciau name. Next Rome
both Macedonia and HelIas weut down to-
gether under her iron heel. NeItthe Turk
.intervened;' aud Rome, in all her Eastern
empire, involving Greece with her ancient
states and beautiful isles, was eclipsed in a
more balefuI despotisu aud in heather
night. Such are the last results of auto
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, mutual hate and
slaughter, national extinction aud death
So the Ioveliest form of ancient civiliza.
ton, in democracy just rising to the glo-
ries Of empire, was sacrificed to the irsa1e
notion OF petty 'stste aovereiguty;' and
when we now ask, Where is Hellas2 we
are only answered by poets, who sing her
elegy:
"sAsk the Payuim slave.
VINO treads AL fearless on her halEoWed SraTa:
Invoke the spirits Of tie pa at, aud lhed
The voice of your strong bidding ca the dead!
Lor from : thousand cruu bting soubH they rise
The great Of old, the powerful And the wi5e
And \ sad tale, which uoue but they can tell,
3alls on the mOUr1tUI silence Ike kleII.
Then mark you lonely pilgrim bend and weep
Above the mound where genius lies in aisep.
And ID this AIl2 AAsl : We turn in vain,
And turning, meeting the self-saue waste Again
The same crear wilderness of stern decay,
la former pride, the phantom Of day;
sCEg Of summer birds within bower;
A dream OF beauty traced upo1 \ flower;
A l1Es whose master chord ceased TO sound;
morning star struck darkhng 30 the ZruuRd-'