Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — This is Glory. [ARTICLE]

This is Glory.

'An EngHse periodical estimates that more then a million of bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported in the year 1330 fromthe continent ot Europe into one port of England. The neighborhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and all other places where, during the lately proceeding bloody war, where the principal battles were fought, were swept alike of the bones of the hero and the horse he rode. Thus collected from every quarter they were shipped to the port of Hull and thence forwarded t“ Yorkshire bon -grinders, where there are steam engines and power.ul machinery for the purpose of reducing them to a granular state. The principal market for the product thus prepared is Dorchester in the centre of a rich agricultural region, whose farmers use them to manure their lands. The oily substance gradually evolving as the bone ca - cities, makes a more substantial manure than almost any other substance. It has been ascertained beyond a doubt by actual experiment on an extensive scale, that a dead soldier is a most valuable article of commerce, and it is more than probable tha' the farmers f Yor shire ard other parts of England owe the rich fertility of their lands, and their daily bread, to the bones o; thf-ir children, who perished on the Continent, in the Crimea, i-r in India. It is a singular fact that Great Britain should have a nt out, from time to time, such a multitude of soldiers to fight her battles. an-.i then should import their bones as articles oi commercial and agricultural profit. Al a, the poor soldier! To convert hitn«ei into a target, to be Lt for a -i cl.y, .nd i: killed in battle, to have bis bones in -le • n aiticie of commerce! It is most horrible to tliitik of!