Facts For A Thousand Millions: For The Signal Of Liberty
iilcDóe? The newspnpor prcss has long luated Réminiscences of War, eosoned ; anïent fancy ofyotiih, tvith the gor5 heroica of pniriotism nnd ponÃry and rö"-1 e. I shoiikl be exceodinrrÃy gratcfóï Ãff coürtsv, nnd yon might Iny irankind unr- ome obligfiion lo tliat bland quaüiy of 3tianity, f you wonlJ oecnioiiHÃy admtt your columns snmn of tho.-e Reminiscen of ÃYtir calcuÃated o inspire boib tho )g nnd the old, of this enüffhtrned itg i an indomifable abliorrence f-ll ihat sa of the spirit, er tenli o perpetuate exist, nf thnt pnnmn.iry manster. Tliose uïiical rrmmieceiices nre livin?, witliout any1 cintinn with romnnce nr lm hroics of thef linatiori, in tho eep)êes mi.-ery oà mi'Iioná or fellow b injrs - the burning inherlts of War. The duWM-crUified poor of iëtenflom, with the bleared viaion of their ved ihtellecisj are irroping for the cauee heir pover y nnd degradaron, and graspit in its s'ow revclation. Phe hnve d.sct.vered, in ilie monstrout) (nmenfs of War, ihe pnmpe.'ed Gorgort '.fh fnr iiflw. hna fpii :i( l!ifi ïeifli of Lnbi)f.I 9 now Ã-atinir P,Ht tlie stlbs'nnce atÃd subence oftheir bodies ntid s'ii!, and enslavhciti lr wijf, wreiclicnsss, aiid Jwpeleffl omnce. They nppeal toya'i to indicl thi8 rid cannibnl War. before, before the trlinl cf IlumnniÃy, and enler there the evire nf i's 3nvLe álmcitics perpeirnted on rafip, ano writ:cn -n lines of fue aÃid rivera blnod around lite globe. Uere ilien, Mr. Editor, aro a fpw of the re citfcences of Wut. entiroly sliorn nf poetry. [ey are bluody wilnefses to tlio truth, and ilicm it'süfy. Ãt the periódica! butcliern tlie human fam.lv, 'le fullowingf hecnbs hnve ben oQered up to that god of tiles whicli ootii Cli.I.'iaiH t-nd pagana bava rshiped wilh thp same devotioa; )ss cf lÃb in the j.wih Wor=, 25,000.000 f Wurs n thetitneol ScÃosI'1--, 15,000,000 r thopé of Si'mirainis, Cy rjs and Ali'x:ndr, 3,000,000 v Alpxmder's SucCPssor, 20,000,000 rf-ciin War?, 15.0,000 nru of ilie tc!ves Cjee&r, 30,000,000 omnn Wrj bpfor? Ctosar. 60,000,000 ars ói" I lie Roman Kmpire; Turki, nnd Sarncens, 130,000,000 -r'Ts o? he Refonuution, S0,00000fr 'rars of the MidüÃti IgeÃ, and D crusades, 30.000,000 'arÃar nnd Ãtri'can Ware, ÃCd,000000 iinericnn InÃünns desiro ed by xheSpaniards, 2.000,000 Vors óf Napo!eo3j 6,000.000 683,000,000 The above is a mere extract from ihe blbtfdy talistics of g)oriou8 War; onechaptèr 1H tho nivls of the violefice, crime and ffiifèrj that ir.ve fo!lwèil thh foot prlnfá 6'f thè Gnkx-f The losa of souls is entered vh-re hiumn eye.- may not read the list.- jr. Dri esiimates tite number of thoo wbo javo p'firi-ÃiPd direerjy and indirectJy by war, t fourleeii Vwusand millions, or about one-ttnth
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