Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-26

thrown in. If the entire population of St. Louis was wiped out by death at one blow, the horror would just repre- sent ill point of numbers the sacrifices of the north alone.
 Besides the death casualties ill war there arc those permanently disabled by wounds and sickness. Add the dis abled soldiers ill the northern army to those who fell ill 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 tho waste of life, the appalling de- struction of the best bone and sinew ill the land. If an epidemic were to pros trate all the men ill the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo and Cleveland, leaving three -fifths of them dead and two-fifths maimcd for life the calamity would be no greater in point of tho numbers of victims than that entailcd by the war upon the northern states.
 In another portion of this article com parisons are drawn between the armies engaged i'll 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 tOcstimate large masses of men. The population of state may present a 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 l 300, 900 pcO- pie One Was ;.s low aS 1 300, GOO and one as high as 100, 900. Three stood at I,G00, 900, two at 1, 100, 900 and ono at 1,50O, GOO. If every full grown man of those eight states should be drafted for an army, the multitude would just about equal the total number marshalCd ill the Union and Confederate armies be tween tho fall of Sumter and tho sur render at Appomattox.
 Again, the entire male population of tue great states of New York and Penn sylvania combined with that of any two of the eight states named above would but f1tly represent i'll numbers tho le- gions who wore the blue and the gray. The idea may be presented i'll a form still more simple, for many. than either of the above. If all tho inhahitmts- men, women and childrrn-of Kansas and Virginia, or of North Carolina and New Jersey, should be transformed into soldiers and sent trnoping toward the border ill armies of 100, 900 or 200, 900 at time, the spectacle would be q par allel of the musters of the great upriS- ings from 1861 to 1865, and all the sol dierS gathered i'll 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 the smallest of those four states by 250, GOO.
 The cost of the War ill treasure cannot be stated with the samc cXactncss as that expended in human lives. On the side of the south therc was a vast amount of wealth devoted to the cause, vet the Confedcracy created a debt of $2,000, 900, OOO Had every slavo in the south been worth $500 in cash the southern people would have been the gathers by setting them all free ill 1861. The north cxpenlctl about 4,I00, ,O0O, GOO. 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 ! | states in the CUnfe1tracy WAS about tie same in 1870. after five years r"cuperaticn from the effects of the War, as it had heen in 1861, not count ing slaves, then valuing each slave in bondage i'll 1861 ct $500, the north could have bought out the Confectionery, slaves and all, at its real value and saved money i'll the operation, to say nothing of the waste ill lives and industrial energies GEORGE l.. kILMER.