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 poníry and rö"-1 e. I shoiikl be exceodinrríy gratcfóï íff coürtsv, nnd yon might Iny irankind unr- ome obligfiion lo tliat bland quaüiy of 3tianity, f you wonlJ oecnioiiHÜy admtt your columns snmn of tho.-e Reminiscen of ÍYtir calcuíated 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 oí 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 í-atinir P,Ht tlie stlbs'nnce atíd 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 Ilumnniíy, and enler there the evire nf i's 3nvLe álmcitics perpeirnted on rafip, ano writ:cn -n lines of fue aíid 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. ít 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 lÜb in the j.wih Wor=, 25,000.000 f Wurs n thetitneol ScíosI'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 Midüíti Igeí, and D crusades, 30.000,000 'aríar nnd Átri'can Ware, ÍCd,000000 iinericnn Iníünns 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-íiPd direerjy and indirectJy by war, t fourleeii Vwusand millions, or about one-ttnth