THE RESULTS OF WAR.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 86, 1 September 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE RESULTS OF WAR.

Thefollowingisfrom The Old Guard, a monthly journal recently established in New York : — HOW WE ARE REVENGING SUMTER The following are the reported casualties of this war from its beginning to January fst, 1 <S<33 : — Federals killed - - - 43,875 „ "woumled - - 97,020 „ died of disease and wounds 250,0U0 „ made prisoners - - GB.^lß Total - 459,374 Confederates killed - - 20,S ( .KS „ wounded - - 5'.),'.! IS „ diedof disease andwounds 120,000 „ made prisoners - 22,16'J Total - 222,677 They have killed twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-four more of our men than we have of theirs. The}' have wounded, not mortally, thirtynine thousand four hundred and fourteen more of our men than we have of theirs. One hundred and fifty thousand more of our men have died of diseiiSii and of wounds than of theirs. They have made prisoners of forty - six thousand more of our men than we have of theirs. Our total casualties are two hundred and thirtyseven thousand two hundreaand ninetyseven more than theirs — that is, our casualties have been fourteen thousand more than as much again as theirs, This is the way we have " revsnged the firing on FortSumter." But this is not all. We have s^cnt almost two thousand millions more of money than they have spent. We have made two hundred thousand of our women widows. We have made one million of children fatherless. We have destroyed the constitution of our country. We have brought the ferocious savagei y of war into every corner of society. We have demoralised our pulpits, so 'that our very religion is a source of immorality and blood. Instead of being servants of Christ our ministers are servants of Satan. The land is full of contractors, thieves, provost marshals, and a thousand other tools of illegal and despotic power, as Egypt was of vermin in the days of the Pharaohs. We are rapidly degenerating in everything that exalts a nation. Our civilisation is perishing. We are swiftly driftiug into inevitable civil war here in the North. We are turning our homes into charne! houses. There is a corpse in every family. The angel of death sits in every door. The Devil has removed from Tartarus to Washington. We pretend that we are punishing the rebels, but they are punishing us. We pretend that we are restoring the union, but we are destroying it. We pretend that we are enforcing the laws, but we are only catching negroes. Tflat is the way we are " revenging Sumter."