The New York herald., 1866-09-17
Tho Horrors Of war IN Europe.


Tho Horrors or War in Europe.
When the civil war was raging in this coun-
try the European journalists sent to report 1t
were loud In their condemnation of the devas-
tation of the Southern country by our soldiers,
and quoted the raids of Stoneman and Kill
patrick, the marches OF Sherman and the
ravages of Sheridan in the Shenandoah as
without parallel in the history of war. The
same journalists have lately been employed In
writing accounts OF the war between Austria
and Prussia, and have given interesting stories
of the exciting operations of the campaign.
But they have given but one side of the picture.
Apparently the march of the Prussians has
been triumphal one the battles have been
grand exhibitions of military evolutions; the
leaders have the appearance OF the chivalric
knights of olden times and the men are per-
feet specimens of the true soldier in figure,
sentiment, impulse and outfit The movements,
according TO these writer's, have been made
with the care and precision Of the chess player
and even the King Of Prussia has hattered him
money. The writer's for the English press
would have us believe thst it cost nothing in
blood; for there are no woanded, no Dead no
mangled among the combatants, while all the
horrors which have been visited upon the
peaceful women and children who lived in the
pathways of the armies are carefully kept from
view.
But our own advices from the seat of war
tell us of the terrible sufferings Of these un-
fortunates in Bohemia and Moravia. Our cor
respondents who witnessed the marches of our
troops in The South and who have accompanied
the Prussan and Austrian armies in their
marches, declare that the actual sufferings of
the Southern people were as nothing compared
with those Of he people Of the devastated dis
tricts of Northern Austria The indiscriminate
seizure by the armies of cattle, proyender and
food the destruction incidental 10 the canton
ment of troops in the houses or the peasantry,
the confagrations attendant ON the frequent
dreds Of thousands Of poor people houseless
and starving, and the distressed condition Of
the peasantry Is without parallel in that coun-
try. II is with difficulty that these countries
in their most prosperous condition support
their numerous population Of poor peasantry,
so numerous indeed that their labor commands
but about onc-ffth of the price paid for il in
this country. Now with the country devas-
tated by the excuses and necessities OF two
great cOntending armies, the sufcrings must be
very great. Death from actual starvation has
been frequent among them, and now that the
cholera has broken out in the rear of the
armies, the sufferiDgs will he intense.
What is to become OF these poor people?
The country cannot support them through tho
winter; they cannot remain where they are,
nor find room in other similarly dcnsely
populated districts. They will, Of course,
wherever II il In their power, emigrate
to the land which, according to our Eng
lish slanderers, was so terribly ravaged by
Sherman and Sheridan, but in which there il
plenty to eat and plenty 70 do. This country
has already recovered from tie blight OF war
the plough OF the farmer has ievellcd the rifle
pits Of the soldier, and made in their stead more
beautiful burrows in which staad not the stall
wart soldier, but the tall corn with its flaming
plume. Peace has already reaped crop, and
plenty biesses the land /; and hither. in ssarch
OF both these blessings. these people will come
In swarms and be welcome. Willie the Euro
pcans fight for power, Americans fight for
principle; while Prussia fought 20 dissolve the
German Union, We fought 10 preserve and
strengthen ours; and while she reaps The ques-
tionablc advantage OF annexation, we shall an
doubtedly gain by emigration.