The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-03-16

Gu Ol ouuu HeaVy armed inlahLfy. IL
was reinforced by another of abou.
the same number. When gathered at
Syracuse they numbered in all-hea-
Wy armed infantry, natives of the ISL
and and slaves who were light armed
and only employed as skirmishers-
10000 mon. This, in the language Of
Thucydides, made her power appear
"stupendous," and her resources "be-
yond calculation"
Tho final and decisive battle was
that OF Aigospotami, when Athens lost
her feet, and nearly her wnole army
was surprised and taken prisonets.-
The numbers engaged in battle are not
told; but the number of prisoners who
were native Athenians, is recorded us
three thousand, which seems to have
made up the bulk Of her army in the
last decisive engagement.
NOW AND THEN.
As to the number engaged. the little
State of Massachusetts has furnished
more men in our present struggle than
fought on both sides in the great Eng
lish rebellion. 1t has sent more men
into the field than Julius Caesar COM
manded to gain the empire of the
world; more than all the troops of Hell
las put together in the long struggle
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 Pom
pey put together, though drawn from
every province, from the Euphrates to
the pillars of Hercules. Tho whole
army Of Cromwell would only serve as
skirmishers, or as detail for "raid"
from the army of Grant or Sherman.
His great military fame was gained
by managing twenty thousand
men; and its marches and evolutions
were within an area not larger than the
State of Virginia,
THE ENGLISH REBELLION.
The great civil war OF England,
known as "the Great Rebellion" was
also conflict between the oligarchs
and the commons; called again the
Cavaliers and the Roundheads; called
again, moro appropriately, the King
and his Parliament. 1t divided Eng
land horizontally-the King and the
lords and the bishops on one side. the
commons on the other; and it decided
| the question forever, whether constitu-
tional government was possible boon
TO the English race.
The war opened in 1912, and con
tinued seven years. 1t would proba-
bly, have been finished in half that
time, but for the hesitancy and half
measures of Essex, the first pariamen,
tary general. The first conflict OF
d, Edgehill has its exact parallel in An.
tietam. 1t was q drawn battle; both
parties laying all night on their arms;
but, in the morning, Hampden came
up with four thousand fresh men,
Julius Caesar would have followed up
quickly the former days work, and
with blow upon blow, finished the 10y.
alists and the war. Instead OF this
the armies "looked at each other,
dreaded to renew the fight. and drew
off, each by itself mach TO the chagrin
and disgust Of Hampton. Five thou
sand were left slain upon the field
slain to no purpose, as nothing was
] decided. So things went on, till Oil
yer Cromwell came with his "ironsidC
regiment" and, at the decisive baitl,
of Nascby, dashed upon the Kings for
ces and shivered them in pieces
: We may smile, on reading ovel
these great battles, at the numbers en-
y gagged. They varied from twenty t.
d twenty i've thousand men on each side
# never exceeding the latter number
! The battle of Marston Moor was tn,
most obstnately contested, betwccl
u "the most numerous armies that wer,
t. engaged during the course of thes
/. wars" and in that battle, as Hum'
}. lamcnts. fifty thousand British troop
n were led to mutual slaughter Sucl
!, was the price paid; the end achieved
e was free government for the Englisl
II race everywhere:
If The writer in the Religions Month
- y deduccs from the facts he relate
l. several arguments First comes one il
f. favor of the cultivation of q nationa
r, military spirit as the surest way q
avoiding the shedding of blood. War
% unskilfully waged are the bIoodiost O
z all, Caesar, in three years war be
Ie tween the C@sarians and Pompeians
10 lost fewer men than Mcclellan did il
single campaign on the Peninsula
d Indeed it is said, more lives have bee
h lost in our present war than the grea
t, civil wars Of Greece, Rome and Eng
A. land put together; and this might hav
le been avoided had the North been
D. military people.
3, THE EFFECT OF INTERVENTION.
d 1t is we'll to look into the gulf of ru
" in from which our present civil wa
~ is TO save us. Resolving the Unio
n. into thirty-six State sovereigntic
~ would place us exactly where tn
5f Greek Autonomies were placed in thei
,g struggle of twenty.seven years.
b. means mutual slaughter and final co
ID lapse, until some stronger third powe
ID comes in and adjusts the bleeding fray
be ments. Persia tiiially "intervened" i
y favor Of Spartai and her hateful despc
re tism was pressed down upon all tn
" States of Hellas and her lovely island
cs Thebes finally rebelled against it, le
III on by tho qreat Epaminondae; and