The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-02-18

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ut home" sti
It ID curious to contrast the numbers en-
gagged in our war with those engaged in the
great warn Of the past:
I'VE select two decisive battles. One OF
these was fought in the haroor Of Syracuse.
In an expedition against Sicily. Athens
had strained every nerve and equipped
msrnidcent feet and army. They sailed
oit Of the Pirmus with sound Of trumpets,
paens and ibations Of wine from gold and
silver cups, This great army consisted Of
I'VE thousand heavy-armed infantry. 1t
was reinforced by another Of about the
same number. When gathered at Syracuse
they numbered in al-heavy.armed in
fantry, natives Of the island and slaves,
as skirmishers-9O,O0 COO men. This, in the
language Of Thucydides, made her power
appear stupendous, and her resources be-
yond calculation.
ssThe final and decisive battle was that of
Aigospotami, when Athens lost her feet.
and nearly her whole army was surprised
and taken prisoners. The numbers en-
gagged In battle are not told; but the rum
Der Of prisoners, who were native Athen-i
iane, Is recorded ~ $500, which seems to
have made up the bulk Of her army N the
last decisive engagement"
NOW AND THEN.
''As 10 the numbers engaged, the little
State of Maseachusetts has furnished more
men in our present struggle than fought on
both sides in the great English rebellion
Il has sent more men into the field than
Julius Cesar commanded to gain the en-
pire ofthe world; moro than all the troops
Of Hellas put together, In the long strug-
ele that rent her in pieces, when her sun
went down in blood. The State OF New
York has equipped more soldiers than all
the troops Of Cesar and Pompey put to-
gether, though drawn from every prov
1nce, from the Euphrates TO the pillars of
Hercules. The whole army Of Cromwell
would only serve - sklrmishers, or Is q
detail for raid, from the army Of Grant
or Sherman. His great military fame was
gainedsby managing 5000 men; and its
marches and eyolution1 were within an
area less extensive than the State Of Vn-
ginia."
n THE ENGLISH RHRELIloN.
1.-THE great civil war Of England, known
~ the Great Rebellion waa also q conflict
between the oligarchs and the commons;
called again the Cavaliers and the Round
heads; called again, moro appropriately,
the King and his Parliament. It divided
England horizontally-the King and the
Lords and the Bishops on one side, 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 l64o, and continued
finished in half that time, but for the hest
fancy and half measures Of Essex, the frs!
Parliamentary General. The FIRST confiic;
OF Edgehiu hes its exact parallel in Ante
tam. Il was . drawn b6ttle, both parties
lying Ill night on their arms; but In the
morning, Hampden came mp with fou,
thousand freeh men. Julias Cesar woulG
work, and, with blow upon blow, 6nishel
the royalists and the war. Instead of THU
tho armies looked at each other dreaded
70 renew the fight, and drew of, each By
1teeH, much g the chagrin and disgust o
Hampton. Five thousand were left slail
upon the 6eld-slAin 10 no purpose, q
nothing was decided. So things went o.
tll Oliver Cromwell came with his iron
side regiment, and, Ct tho decisive battl
Of Naseby, dashed upon the Kings forces
and shivered them Ia pieces.
!. I'VE may smile. on reading over thes
sereat battles, at the numbers engaged
They varied from twenty to twenty-6v
thousand men on each side, never exceed
ing The latter number. The battle Of Mart
ton Moor Was the most obatinately contet
ted, between the most numerous armit
these wars and in that battle, % Hum
laments, 6fty thousand British troop
were led to mutual slaughter. Such wi
the price paid; the end achieved was FRI
government for the English race ever,
whore"
Tie writer in the Religious Monthly d
0ucee from the facts be relates several .
Eumsnts. First comes one in favor Of Il
cultivation Of . national military spirit,
The suzest way Of avoiding the shedding.
blood. War; unokillfully waged are Il
bloodiest Of Ill. Cesar, in three year
war between the CBsaFeans and Pompe
ans Loot loWer men than Mcclellan did
single campaign on the Peninsula. i
oeed, It Il said, more lives have been 10
IN our present war than the treat civil VA
OF 0feeces Rome and England pat toget
q; and thu might have been avoided h.
the North been military people.
TA1 xfFHcT o. lNTERvEN1IoN.
''It u we'll to look into the guilt Of ru
1, from which our present civil var 10 to a
~. Resolving the Union into thirtv.s
State ooveteignties would place us exact
:, Whoro tho Greek autonom1eo were plac
IN their struggle Of twenty-seyen vears.
It means mutual slaughter and final 9,
lapse, until some stronger third now
oomee in and adjusts tho bleeding frs
mont. Persia finally 'intervenedS in
vor OF Sparta; and her hateful despotia
Was pressed down upon all the States
Hellae and her lovely islands. Thel
finally robelled against it, led on by
areat Epaminondas; and second series
Svil wars brought on moro complete
&austion, and . moro deadly collapse
philip OF Macedon next ssintervensd," Z
caushed them atill lower into the d.
amid the dying thundeD Of Demosthen
and the fading glories Of TIE Grsci. p. ~.
IN her Eastern empire involving Gree
With her ancient States and beautiful =
- eolipoed In - moro baleful deepoti
snd IN 6eashen night. Such are tho
reeults Of autonomy-aisnenber1n(
mutual hate and daughter, national
tipction and dsAtb. So the loYeiast fo