Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — Lassos la War. [ARTICLE]

Lassos la War.

The Millenium has not come yet, though, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, we believe it is coming. Men are busier than ever in devising destructive Implements o£. war, and mutual slaughter is not merely a trade, but a science. It used to be said that, in proportion to the deddly character of the weapons of war. the slaughter of men became agually leas, and the duration of the conflict was correspondingly shortened. In the days that are passing over OS this is but partially true. No doubt with telegraphs and railways, it is scarcely possible to protract wars as they used to be when George 111. was king. Still when the combatants are pretty well matched, the tussle may last a good while, and the slaughter be enormous. In the course of the campaign recently closed in Turkey, the lives of not less, than 200,000 men have been lost, while a very large number have had their Hvea shortened by the hardships they have passed through and the wounds they have received.. This is a higher rate of casualties than prevailed in the FrancoPruarian conflict, though in the latter (double the number of contestants were engaged. It is much higher also than what was usual in the Napoleonic wars. It used to be said in the days of “Brown Bess,” that for eveiy man killed his weiriit in lead had been shot avnty. Modern science has made that a mere tradition of the olden time. In one asaault on Plevna, the Russian War Office admitted a loss of 8.000 kiHed, and 16,000 wounded, though perhaps there were not more than thirty or forty thousand engaged. In other words, in that oneunsucceesftil assault the losses of one of the combatants exceeded the total of killed, wounded, and missing on both sides at the world-fiuned battle of Austeriits, and very nearly equalled the whole French loss at Gravektte. Even in the four day’s fight at Leipric, in which 471,000 men were engaged, the percentage of loss for all the four was not so great as in this assault at Plevna. Hie slaughter is evidently very greatly increased by improvement in weapons. It is not so evident that the time of hostilities is being correspondingly shortened. Yet, after all, we cannot despair of the good time being bare by-and-by. “If* oomln rot a* ts tlmL Wfcon smb to man the world owtr Bttmll brothers bo and a UiaL”

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