The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-08-23

ton and in every feeling by the war.
The few that felt no sympathy had an
antagonism quite as deep and as lasting
| in its effect. So in point of fact the his
| tory of the war, with its romance, its
pathos, its deep currents of feeling,
| whether Of sorrow or exultation, its trag-
| edies and it's thrilling excitements, comes
to this generation as the heritage of 50,-
| 900, 600 people.
There is still another side to the mag
| nitude of the war, one seldom thought
of or at least not appreciated, and that
| is the cost Of it all-the actual destruc-
| tion involved is life and property. War
| is destructive, and if neither the cause
at stake nor the spirit Of the contest stirs
mems blood SO as to mark the genera
tions following them the passion aroused
| by personal loss will. Taken in mass
the loss Of life would show great cities
wiped out, and that of property whole
states put in pawn. The number Of
men in the northern armies alone, killed
in battle, would equal the entire male
admit population Of the cities of Buffa-
10 and Cleveland-that is to say, if ey-
cry man in those two cities should be
cut off by violent death, leaving every
home desolate and every woman and
child mourner, the calamity and the
sorrow would not be greater than those
entailed upon the whole north by the
bullets of the enemy. On the other
hand, TIE death roll of the Confederates
would equal the entire male adult pop
ulation of New Orleans as it is today.
But deaths in battle represent only
third of the lives sacrificed in the
service In the Union ranks there were
100000 deaths from all causes during
service. That number exceeds the en-
tire male population Of New York city
proper, or Of Chicago and Boston COM
bined, with either Cleveland or Buffalo
thrown in. If the entire population of
ST. Louis was wiped out by death at
one blow, the horror would just repre-
sent in point Of numbers the sacrifices
Of the north alone.
Besides the death casualties in war
there are those permanently disabled by
wounds and sickness. Add. the dis
abled soldiers in the northern army to
those who fell in battle or from other
causes, and the number would represent
the entire body of the inhabitants Of
Cleveland and Buffalo. These are strik-
ing estimates, but they are true. They
show the waste of life, the appalling de-
struction of the best bone and sinew in
the land. If an epidemic were to pros
trate all the men in the cities of New
York, Brooklyn, Buffalo and Cleveland,
leaving three-fifths of them dead and
two-fifths MANNED for life, the calamity
would be no greater in point of the
numbers of victims than that entailed
by the war upon the northern states.
In another portion of this article COM
PARSONS are drawn between the armies
engaged in different campaigns Of the
civil war and those Of European nations
in the great struggles of Napoleon's
day. But the representation of armies
by figures can only impress the stron-
gest imaginations or the minds Of those
trained to estimate large masses Of men.
The population of state may present
tangible idea to those who have travelled
beyond the limits of their native town
or county. According to the census Of
1890, each Of the following eight repre-
sentative states of their sections contain
ed on an average about 1000, 900 peo-
pie. One was as low as 800, 900 and one
as high as 100000. Three stood at
1,600, coo, two at 1900, 900 and one at
100000. If every full grown man of
those eight states should be drafted for
an army, the multitude would just
about equal tho total number marshaled
in the Union and Confederate armies be-
tween the fall Of Sumter and the sur
render at Appomattox.
Again, the entire male population of
the great states Of New York and Penn
sylvania combined with that of. any two
Of tho eight states named above would
but fifty represent in numbers the le-
gions who wore the blue and the gray
The idea may be presented in form
still moro simple, for many, than either
of the above If all the inhabitants
men, women and children-of Kansas
and Virginia, or Of North Carolina and
New Jersey, should be transformed into
soldiers and sent trooping toward the
border in armies Of 100, 600 or 200, 600
at time, the spectacle would DO par
allel of the musters Of the great upris-
ings from 1861 to 1865, and all tho sol
diers gathered in former conflicts Of the
United States, beginning with the Rev
olution and ending with the Mexican
war, would not equal the entire popula-
tion Of tho smallest Of those four states
by 100000.
The cost Of the war in treasure cannot
bestated with the same exactness as that
expended i'll human lives. On the side
Of the south there was vast amount of
wealth devoted to the cause, yet the
Confederacy created debt Of $4,000
900, 200. Had every slave in the south
been worth $500 in cash tho southern
people would have been the gamers by
setting them all free in 1861. The north
expended about $4,000, 100000 This
treasure represented the present wealth
of Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania,
united, and almost that of New York and
California. Assuming that the wealth
of the 1 1 states in the Confederacy was