The Horrors Of War

- The followingeloquent passago occurs in the leading article in the last number of the Law Reporter, on the cnseoftïie Somers. It is said to be the production of Attornoy General Austin: It is ngainst all our notions of jnstice, and all our religious sentiments. that a man shou'd liüld by his own breath despoiic power over human life; but war in all its branches, in all its coiicütioup, in all its formsjs equally adverse to niopil feeling and religious duty. - What is a line of battle ship but one vast volcano for human destruction, an artificial enrthquake ready to burst upon mankind' - What are yonr navy yards, your arsenals, your magazines of arms,but instruments vhich the passions and crimes of men hnveinvented for desolation and death! It ia incident to this tremendous battery, that a power shóuld direct it proportioned in its might to the great machinery it moves. Henee comes martial law and the law of war, softened indeed in the civiliza tion of the world, and'impressed, to some extent with the mprovements of the age, stern, severe, sudden in its decisión, prompt in its exercise, yet a necessary part of that great system of wrong, which the vïolence of human passions has contrived for the propagation of human wietchedness. and which wil] continue to pour forth its vials of wrath, till the predicted time arrivés, "when men shall beat Iheir swords mto plough-shares and their spears into prunin - when nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither sball they learn 'var any more."