Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-10-19
THE HORRORS OF WAR.

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'I Just at this time, when war is in, every
,body's mouth, it may be acceptable to
your readers to have spread out b efore
them, on a single page, some of The most
terrible battles Of the world, with their
bloody results These will show us the
great evils of war. We had thought
some time ago that as civilization advanced
war and blood shed would diminish {; but
in this we were sadly mistaken, !. The
Rev. Joseph A. Collier, in his great
work against Wharf.-The Right Way
insists upon it that all national as well as
individual disputes can and should be set
tied without resorting to the arbitramept
of arms. This is a nice theory, but it
don't seem to work well.5 It is indeed
true, as he says, no difficulty has ever
been settled on the field Of battle, for
after the war is over, the settlement must
be made in other modes This will hold
good in most cases. Why not them Mr..
Collier asks. make the settlement before
the ,warf Simply because the war, terri
BILE and wicked, and unreasonable and in
human as it is, is absolutely necessary to
make the unreasonable and stubborn par
ty willing to listen to .tcrms.v How
could our great civil war have been avoid
eda Only by the destrution of our
I Union. How could the Franco Prussian
war have been averted ?5e Nothing would
satisfy Napoleon and the French but a
measuring of strength with the Germans.
Only after getting terrible thrashing
will they be willing to make peace on
terms safeto Germany -.-.-. so4 A'alH
/ 1t is said during this short conflict, l.
e., from the battle. of Saarbrask, to the
capture or Sedan, 100000 men on both
sides have been slain and wounded !
| What an enormous waste of humane life !
This equals the greatest slaughters of
former times and if the siege of Paris
shonld be continued, it may become one
of most extensive scenes of suffering and
death in the history of the world, as the
following facts will show .,...,.-
s' In the battle of the Granicus, between
Alexander and Darius, 10000 were
slain and two years afterward, in the
battle of Arbela, 300, 900. In the great
battle between Scipio and Asdrubal in
Africa, 10000 perished. At the siege Of
Jerusalem, according to Josephus, up
wards of 1000, 600 perishedin in two years !;
and even this does not come up to the
Franco Prussian war; for at the rate at
which the French aad Prussians have
been slaughtering each other for single
month, the slain would amount to more
than 100000 in two years. In the
great battle between Marius, the Roman
general, and the Amliouess and Teutones
there were slain 100000 in a few .daysi
In the battle of Canna, between the Ro-
mans and Hannibal, 10000 Romans and
I $4,000 Africans were left dead on the
feld-nearly all were killed outright in
those hand to hand combats. In the
1 battle between Suetonius and Bovdicea,
! the Queen of Britain, in the A d. 90,-
4 100000 were killed Julius Caesar, it is
said, in single battle killed 100000
Teutons The combined nations of
Gaul and GernaAia attacked Attila at
Chalons, tnd slew 5000 of his warlike
Huns. The Goths, in the battle of
Milan (630), slew upward of 800, ,O0e..-
/ In 730, the Saracens slew $40 900 Span
iards. In the great battle Between
Charles Martel and the Mohammedans
$4,000 were slain. In the great battle
of Antioch. between the Saracens and
the Crusaders, commanded BY. Godfrey
de Bouillon.o $50, 900 persisted incone
day. This was; perhaps, the most ex-
tensive battle that ever was fought =
There, were 700, 900 Christians and 620,-
600 Saracens engaged at once In the
battle of Platea, .commaned by Mardoni-
MS, Persian general; out of 800, 900
who went into battle, only 5000 escaped,
! ,1enghiz Khan, the great ,Mongul butcher,
Gays DR.. Dick. slew no less than 14,S7o.-
900 human beings in twenty two years
These are some Of the horrors Of war.
Should not all good men pray that wars,
and rumors of war, may sbe heard no
more l-Lutheron Observer. uisroosiV
The suHeripgs imposed upon the un.
for.unats French who live in the neigh
borhood Of the active operations Of the
war are, according, 70 all accounts, Of .
fearful description. si Around Metz and
Graveloste apd other points where, grin
yisaged, war has shown his wrinkles
front,in its ,grimmest aspect, there. j
nothing 8 lsft for the peasent to j, eat. NJ
shelter 'reuains for them. no place Q
\ refuge offers. Their friends cannot heli