The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and PeaceSixty four tracts, compiled and edited by George C. Beckwith, corresponding secretaty of the American Peace Society. Each tract is separately as well as consecutively paged. |
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Page 11
Think of the violence practised in procuring seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is predominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of their rulers , and doomed to all the hardships , perils , and ...
Think of the violence practised in procuring seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is predominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of their rulers , and doomed to all the hardships , perils , and ...
Page 11
The punishment of soldiers is equally cruel and shocking with that of seamen ; but we will not describe flogging ... a soldier was shot at Greenbush , New York , for going thirty or forty miles from the camp , without leave , to visit ...
The punishment of soldiers is equally cruel and shocking with that of seamen ; but we will not describe flogging ... a soldier was shot at Greenbush , New York , for going thirty or forty miles from the camp , without leave , to visit ...
Page 13
On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with hunger and fatigue . From such sufferings , and from the infection of the air by putrefied ...
On halting at night , the soldiers threw themselves down on the first dirty straw they could find , and there perished in large numbers with hunger and fatigue . From such sufferings , and from the infection of the air by putrefied ...
Page 14
... while many were so maddened by the extremes of pain and hunger , that they tore the dead bodies of their comrades into pieces , and feasted on the remains . ' " The soldiers often fired in the morning the buildings in which they had ...
... while many were so maddened by the extremes of pain and hunger , that they tore the dead bodies of their comrades into pieces , and feasted on the remains . ' " The soldiers often fired in the morning the buildings in which they had ...
Page 9
And can a soldier's life be lawful , when Christ has pronounced that he who lives by the sword , shall perish by the sword ? Can any one who professes the peaceable doctrines of the gospel , be a soldier ? Such views prevailed among all ...
And can a soldier's life be lawful , when Christ has pronounced that he who lives by the sword , shall perish by the sword ? Can any one who professes the peaceable doctrines of the gospel , be a soldier ? Such views prevailed among all ...
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| Title | The Book of Peace: A Collection of Essays on War and Peace History of international law |
| Author | American Peace Society |
| Editor | George Cone Beckwith |
| Publisher | G.C.Beckwith, 1845 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 609 pages |
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