The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-03
The World at Peace.

To day is the ons hundredth year an
niversery of the formation of the Com
mittee of Public Safety in Paris, the be-
ginning of the protracted and bloody
commotions which did not cease for
twenty-five years. These wars cost
the nations of Europe S5,0O0,OOO,-
600 in money and the loss of 100000
lives.
There was a period of peace from 1916
to 1928, and then a renewal of warfare,
in,ermittently, until 1s4s, when revolu-
tionary disturbances occurred in most
European countries. The loss by war
during the period the closing is computed
at s5OO,O 100000 in money, and 950, 900 in
soldiers lives.
After only six years of peace the Cri-
mean war began in 1854, and lasted un-
til March, 1855, the date of the treaty of
Paris. Three years later the Franco
Austrian war followed in Italy, and these
two conflicts entailed upon the partici-
pants cost Of 81 600, 100000 and the loss
of 55o,OOn lives.
A brie. wo years of peace preceded
the territ civil conflict in the United
States, ne most desperate and momen-
tous of mtiern times. No computation
of the indirect losses is possible, but the
national debt, it is known, increased
from $9O,OOO,0oO in 1861, to $2,775,000,-
600 in 1866, an addition of 100000,
exclusive of the losses to the Confedera.
cy, to the several States, and to indiyid
uals-very probably as much more. The
fatalities in the two armies are generally
put at about 100000. frances assault
upon Mexico was made during the Amer
ican civil conflict; 80, too, was the short
but sharp Schleswig Holstein war in Eu
rope. There was scarcely day of peace
before the war broke out again between
Austria and Prussia; then came the
Franco. German war, and these with wars
in Spain, China, and South Ameri-
CO, cost $2,0OO,OOO,OO0 and 100000
lives.
On this followed another four years of
peace, and then the breaking out of hos
tilities on the Danube and war between
Russia and Turkey. In March, 1868, the
provisional treaty of San Stefano was
agreed upon, and since that time there
has been no war between important
nations or in civilized lands.
The world is at peace. Fog longer
period than has been observed before,
during the past one hundred years, there
have been no conspicuous bloody con.
Aicts. Many of the European nations
have been paying the money penalty of
war by maintaining huge standing
armies, terribly armed and perfectly
drilled. But there has been no loss of
life, no tell.tale stories of widows and or.
phans, devastation of lands and homes,
and no new veterans crippled in active
service.
The anthem of peace has superseded
the reville for the time being, aud may
it long so be. Tie arts of thrift and
trade are those most cultivated, and the
general happiness is greater for this rea-
son. In our own country the people, su-
preme in their own authorities, and
stronger always than the official servants
who perform the routine duties of ad.
ministration, are secure with but q hand.
ful OF soldiers. The territorial limits of
the republic are soon to be extended,
but only by specific methods and
for the equal advantages of all concern
ed.
Happy is the era of peace l-New York
Sun