The Osceola times., 1876-08-19
War as Il Was and as Il Is.

The following is an extract from an ad-
dress before the Yale law school:
Some tive thousand years before Christ
we read that certain king, one of the
kings of those times-the head of tribe
or city-boasted, "Three score and ten
kings, having their thumbs and great toes
cut of, gather their meat under my ta-
ble.' When the men OF Judah made his
royal mutilator csptive according to
the received lex talionis Of the age, they
cut off his thumbs and great toes, cast
him into a dungeon at Jerusalem and
left him to die Of hunger. When Ne
buchadnezzar took Jerusalem he slew
the sons Of king Zedekiah before his face,
carried him TO Babylon, put out both his
eyes and left him to end his days in
prison. At the close OF the long Jugur-
thine war, Marius brought Jugurtha to
Rome, and, in accordance with the estab-
lished usage of the Roman triumph.
chained to his chariot wheels this deposed
king, this gallant soldier, dragged him
in triumph through the streets, amid the
insults of the populace, and when he
turned his chariot from the forum to as
cend the capitol, he unclaimed the royal
prisoner from his chariot wheel, cast him
nearly naked into dungeon. where he
was not strangled until he had contended
six days against famine. When Carthage
was taken it was blotted from the map
of nations, its past destroyed, its ships
burned and its inhabitants sold rs slaves.
The campaign against Corinth ended In
the extinction of that luxurious, mag
nifcent city and the enslavement OF all
its inhabitants. The curse which Joshua
pronounced against the man who should
presume to rebuild Jericho, "Cursed be
the man who shall Iise up and rebuild
this city Jericho! lie shall lay the
foundation thereof in his first born, and
in his youngest son he shall set up the
gates of it," was but the expression of
the common sentiment-the common
law Of ancient times; at the height of
Greek and Roman civilization, after a
lost battle, every man, woman and child
every human being, not slain-became
an exile or slave. A campaign usually
ended in the destruction Of city; awar
in an extinct nationality.
Let us skip ever two thousand years
to our present civilization. The nine
tesnth century saw all Europe under
arms, from Siberia to Archangel, from
the Atlantic to the Vistula ships bat.
tered one another TO pieces In every sea.
When these wars closed, by treaty Of
peace, some boundaries were altered,
some dynasties were changed, but is not
necessary to say that all prisoners were
released and no property destroyed, for
such is the settled law Of Christendom.
And when the allies took Paris by siege
each Cossack paid for cup of coffee
handed him by the French waiter. and
the pubicists and moralists of Europe
got angry in discussing the refined ques-
tion as to whether the allies had a right,
under the law of nations, 10 restore to
museums and galleries of Italy and Hol-
land the pictures and statues that Napo-
leon had taken from them as trophies of
war. When our late war closed, we held
ourselves responsible to the world, to
history, that our only prisoner, and he
the insigator and head of the rebellion,
should se lodged and fed in accordance
with the most refined rules. When at
last proceedings against him ceased,
northern abolitionist became his bonds
man, he took trip to Europe as an
American dtizen, protected by an Amer
lean passrof.