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We need not dwell now on the waste
and cruelty of war. These stare us
wildly in the face to-day, like lurid
meteor lights, as we travel the page
OF history. We see the desolation
and death that pursue its demoniac
footsteps. Every nation must exist
in one Of two conditions-peace or
war. The former is state of
health; tho latter is abnormal. War
settles no questions, decides no is
sues. 1t Is resort to physical
force because the intellectual power
engaged has failed to compass it's
object or attain it's purpose. In what
engagement Of the late Civil War did
an idea originate bearing on the sub
ject in dispute? In the mouth of
what cannon and IN the muzzle of
what rifle were found MAJ jor and
minor promise from which a logical
conclusion could be drawn? What
instruction did the blade Of sword or
point of bayonet furnish? What NOR
tai wound presented a fact, or what
death established proposition?
War may silence argument, suppress
speech and muZZle the press. but 1T
carries conviction nowhere. 1t nei-
ther enlightens judgment nor con-
vinces reason. But war brings upon
nation great sorrow. Sorrow is
sacred; it is the lot Of humanity; it
is the crucible in which the human
heart is purified and sublimed; it is
the retort in which the soul is re-
fined. There is no great life without
great sorrow. 1t teaches charity to
the spirit, gives to pride sackcloth
and ashes, crushes vanity, and scat
ters it's broken bones In the valley Of
humiliation. OF all antiquity the
philosophy is sweetest which comes
to us bathed in tears and softened by
sorrow and so 1t will go on down
the ages to the end Of time. There
fore, great sorrows follow in the
wake Of war. The havoc RACES, the
ground is soaked with their COM
mingling blood; horse and rider are
stretched together on the earth. But
more revolving than the mangled vic
Tins, than gashed limbs, than life
less trunks, than spattering brains,
are the lawless passions which sweep.
tempest-like, through the fiendish
tumult.
1t has been stated--and l suppose
proven-that only four out Of every
hundred men are killed in battle in
the war with Germany; in other
words, o6 per cent come ont That
being the case, the casualties Of the
Civil Mar wcra much greater. The
| Civil War cost 100000 lives; OF this
numbcr 9&,0So were stain in hatJla,
. 134,331 died from disease, 10000
died Of wounds received in battle. At
the battle Of Chickamauga 80, 900
bit the dust from both armies iii two
days; at the battle of Maivern Hill,
during the seven days fighting near
Richmond, the Confederate's loss
: killed and wounded. At the battle
Of Sharpsburg, Md, Gen. Longstreet
lost 32 per cent of his corps in one
days battle, and | could go on and
on and tell how many were killed
at the different battles. At the bat
tie Of Waterloo $1,000 men were
killed or disabled. There we're 145,-
600 soldiers in the great struggle.
and 1t is estimated that one man was
killed or disabled for every 400 shots
fired, counting the artillery and rifle
shots. In the Crimean war 95,615
lives were sacrificed in battle; and
at Boradino, when the French and
Russians fought, $4,000 men we're
left dead on the battlefield. There
were 250,000 troops In combat in
that engagement. or the 95,615
men who perished in the Crimean war
$4,000 were Turks and Russians. At
Canedo, where the Romans suffered
the worst defeat in their history, it
IS said that $4,000 Of their soldiers
were slain. The Roman army in this
battle consisted Of 10000 men, the
picked Drawn and sinew of the En-
pire. In the Franco-Prussian war
$1,000 Frenchmen wero killed. The
Germans fired 100000 rife shots
and 100000 cannon discharges.
In none Of the battles mentioned
was dynamite used, or gatling-guns;
so, If it is a fact that only four men
, are killed out OF every hundred in
this world war, with all the imDroy-