War

i'iio ioiluwitigsurusucmendaiinns are given by Dr. Benjamin Rush, an eminent American physician and philanihropist, who dief] about thirty years ago, "In order lo impresa more deeply thx minds of the citizens of the United Siat.es wiih the blessingsof peuce, by contrastinji them with the evils of war, let the fullowing iuscription bö pninted on the sigu which is piaced over the door of the wur oflicB at Washington, narnely: An office ibr butchering tlie liuman species. A widow and orphan-making office. A broken bone multing office. A wouden-leg-makmg office. ♦ An office for creuting public and private vices. An office for creating public clebt. An office for creating pca'tilentiat dis- eases. An office for oreaipjr pnverty, and fr the dcstruciion ójf libciiy un.i ruitiona happiness. lu the Inbby, let there be painted representalions of the comrnon in=iruinenis o] death; also human sktills, broken bones, hospitáls crowded wiih sick aiid vvotinded swldierE, villaiies on fire, sbips sinking in tho ocean, rivers dyed in blood and e.tensive plajri's wiihout a tree or fence?, or !iiy oiher olject hut the ruins of deserted farm houses. Above tliïa group of woful figures?, Ier the following words be inseried in red characters (o represent human blood: