The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-12
TIE RIGHT WAY
Or the Gospel Applied to Intercourse Be-
tween Individuals and Nations.
Ply REV. JOSEPH 4. CoLLiEE.

er the rhss ,unbeTS who perish 10y
such a death. 1t is impossible for the
mind f. cnlbTarc IN :, single view q
distinct n;ra 81 deaths ravages, when
its victims are MUubared by tens OF
thousands, as they lave been in al
most every battle o. nnte whose de-
tails are recorded. This fact will per-
hans account for the extraordinary in
difference with whic!i we read and
hear of the losses of life by war. We
dare not venture to grasp The tremen-
dous thoughts suggested by such ac-
counts, and so we spare ourselves al
mcst all reflection upon the subject.
This is wrong, and unworthy of ra-
tional beings. Let us, then, look this
evil in the face, until its view has in
spired us with those emotions which
are becoming 10 men, and to the par
takers of this gift of life which is SO
worse than wasted.
Let us group together few truthful
statistics upon this subject, called from
the pages of history. AT the battle OF
Austerlitz, $4,000 fell at Jena and
Lutzen, 10000; at Eylan, G0,O0O; at
Waterloo and Quartre Bras, 10000 at
Borodino, $4,000; at Fontenoy, 10O,-
900; at Chalons, 100000 of a single
army. The Carthagenians attacked
Hymera, Sicily, with all army of 50O,-
900 men, and fleet of 2,0GG ships and
5000 transports. mo! ship or a
transport escaped destruction and of
the troops, only few in small boat
reached Carthage with the melan-
choly tidings." Marius slew in one
battle l40, 1000 Gauls. and in another,
29O,OOO. Tamerlane, in his camp be-
fore Delhi, massacred 100000 Indian
prisoners. "The people of Ispahan
supplied him with 10000 human skulls
for the structure of several lofty tow
ers, and a similar tax was levied by
him upon Bagdad, amounting to 9O,-
900 heads" Ghengis Khan slew 9O,-
0UO persons in cold blood on the plains
OF Nessa; at Herat, l,G0O,00O; and at
Neisabar, 1,747,OO0. During the first
fourteen years. of his reign, he is sup
posed by Chinese historians to have
destroyed eighteen millions, and in
the last twenty-seven years, an aver
age of more than half a million every
year. This inhuman monster, whose
wars were these of determination, and
whose armies sometimes exceeded a
million, is said to have once '"seriously
proposed to eXterbinate all the inhab-
itauts of China, that the vacant land
might be converted to the pasture of
cattle. The firmness of a Chinese
maudaria alone diverted him from the
execution of this horrible design" 1t
is supposed that the whole number of
souls that followed Xerxes into Greece
was 5,2S3, ,32O. Of these only 5000 es-
capped destruction. Passing now to
more modern times, it has been esti-
mated that more than million of
lives were sacrificed in Napoleon's
Russian campaign, Which lasted only
one hundred aud seventy-three days,
making an average Of six thousand a
day. Germany alone is said to have
lost, in tie Thirty Years War, l2,O0O,-
OO0 of inhabitants. Not less than six
millions perished by the wars Of Ma
poleon in the heart Of Christian Eu-
rope during the early part OF tnis nine
teenth century.
Terrible beyond conception have
be, Il the sufferings and deirhS in be-
sieced cities. In the siege Of aris, in
the sixteenth century, $4,000 persons
died OF hunger alone. III the siege of
Mexico, by the Spanish, Elore than
were Slain in battle, and upwards of
$4,000 more died from the infection Of
putrefying carcas$cs. The siegc Of Vi
emma destroyed 1O,00G; that Of Ostend,
l2G, 900; that of Acre. 100000; that of
Jerusalem, Liza, 900; and that Of Troy,
1,SlG,0G9.
In our own day, the siege Of Silis-
tria, iS5i, is said to have killed @O,oOO
Rnss;ans. The siege of ScHastopol,
1850, was attended with fearful waste
Of life. During the last three weeks
Of that >icge, the loss OF the Russian
garrison alone amounted to about j.
600, exclusive OF these who periShcd
By disease :; and in the tila! assault,
the south side of the city was taken at
loss, upon both sides, Of ct least 30
U0o. The total loss of iifH in tic Cgi
mpa, from ;Aa landing Of the Allies al
r,upaiuria 10 :hc fall Of Seiast"pol-s
period of about one year is estimated
at 10000.
In connection with these state
ments, must be borne in mind war;:
indirect havoc. III the Peninsula
war III Spain, only 5000 soldiers were