BLOOD AND GLORY.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 102, 15 May 1847, Page 3

BLOOD AND GLORY.

These are a few of the reminiscences of war, entirely shotn ofpoe<ry. 'Ihey are bloody witnesses to the tiutli, and let them testify. In the periodical butchering in the human family, the following hecatomb has been ottered to that god of battles, winch both Christians uud Pagans have worshipped with the same devotion :—: — MILLIONS. Loss of life in the Jewish wars 25 By wars in tlu i time of Sesostris ie By those of Semiratnis, Cyrus, and Alexander 30 Jiy Alexander's successors 20 Grecian wars 15 Wars of the twelve Csesnrs 30 Roman wars before Julius Caesar 60 Wars of the Roman Empire, Turks, and Saracens 180 Wars of the Refoim<ition so Wars of the middle ages, and nine centuries. . 80 Tartar and Afi ican wats 180 American Indian* destroyed by Spnuiards. ... 12 Wara of Napoleon 646 4 m, , . 683 The above is a mere extract from the bloody statistics of " glorious war j" one chapter in the annuls of violence, crime, aud misery, that have followed in the footsteps of the great destroyer. The loss ot souls is entered where human eyeb may not read the list. Dr. Dick estimates the number who hare perished directly or indirectly by war aft fourteen thousand miliiou. Ta-»T a-» king the estimate of Dr. Dick, and assuming the average quantity of blood in a common sized person, the veins of the fourteen thousand millions would fill a circular lake of more than seventeen miles in circumference—ten feet deep ; in which all the navies of the world might lloat. Suppose those slaughtered to average each four feet in length, if placed in a row, they would reach nearly 412 times round the sun. They would form a globe of human flesh of nearly a mile in diameter, weighing 1,820,000,000 lbs. Fourteen times more thau all the human beings now living on the earth. O may the time soon arrive when universal peace shall be established, and when man shall shed his brother's blood uo more !