Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-09
THE STORY OF MANA SAHTB'S LIFE.

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[ have just noticed q letter from ''our
| own correspondent" Of the World, dat
Jed Toronto, Canada, November 2,
which gives, from the pen Of the "Rev
John Greenfield, Rector Of Oxford Of
that province: the following additions
TO the history Of the Mama Sahib:
/ Ever since the massacre at Cawnpore
in 1857, the Mana has been captured,
slain, cut, drawn, quartered, burned
and otherwise disposed Of by numerous
newspaper correspondents, all of whom
probably knew as much about him and
his antecedents, and the circumstances
of the Cawnpore massacre, as does the
correspondent of the World. a t''
The fact isthat the massacre at Gavin
pore was controlled and ordered by a
party who had more power and
influence over the chiefs of the Sepoy
insu1rection than any one else in all
India. That party was the Rance Of
Jansi, woman, and one Of the ruling
spirits Of the rebellion, who led into it
not only the Mana Sahib, but besides
him one of the most powerful and tai
ented natives in all India, Tantia To-
pee, who at the time of the Gavin
pore massacre WAS, with the Rance, in
charge of the native forces, and who
compelled Mana to issue the order he
did for the indisc, inmate slaughter Of
the English on that occasion, after their
surrender, in order to fix beyond q
question his fealty to their cause, and
mailing the whole responsibility OF it
upon him, which was afterwards done.
| It should be borne IN mind that at this
time the Mana was almost a boy, being
but abont twenty-five years Of age. He
was as fully conversant with the Eng
lish language and literature IS with the
Hindu tongue. Only few weeks
before the rebellion broke out
he was an honored guest at
| the Government House in Cal
cutta, and was personally known to the
writer as young man of rare talent,
and remarkable for his manly beauty
and native dignity and courtesy of man
ner The idea of most persons who
read OF the Cawnpore massacre is that
| the Mana was a sort of demi- brute, q
! deformity both mentally and physically.
| The fact Is that this young man was
! boy, and was led, as has been stated,
| through the influence of the Rance of
Jansi, most beautiful but dangerous
and fend-like woman-as well as
| through the influence of others of his
own caste-among whom may be count
ed the two sons of the Great Mogul at
Delhi, and over and above all the King
of Oude-to cast his lot with the parties
to the rebellion The whole onus of
| the Cawnpore massacre, horrible as it
is, has been thrown upon him, and he
| has been held responsible for it. The
truth is that the Cawnpore massacre,
with all it's shocking brutalities, was in
| stigated by woman, a female fiend,
who was afterwards, during Sir Hugh
Roses campaign, cut down at the head
of her army by British dragoon,
though clad in suit of chain mail
This most INSCRIPTIONS woman, the
Rance of Jansi, was the mistress of
Tantia Topee., ...t-. ..ti5lansq p.
As to the taking of Mana Sahib, if he
had as many lives as cat he would
| have expiated them all some seventy
times seven, II rumor-comlng from
supposed British sources-had had its
way. But, to use an English express
sion, this is all "rot." The Mana, hay
ing an English education, and being
constantly in receipt Of advices from
| Calcutta, was as well aware of the i'm
putation laid at his door as any officer
of the British army, and he took imme-
diate measures to secure himself. He
did not go to Scinde, but he did go to
| Napaul, where he has been ever since.
Two years after he had been caught,
"drawn and quartered' in the North
west provinces, the writer saw him in
Nepaul-that is to say in 196O-where
he was then living under the protection
Of Sir jung Bahadoor. AS to what is
said about the observance Of the
Shroddh, and that it must be per-
| formed upon the right bank of the
Gauges, that is all another piece of
''rot. A Hindu may be burned as
well at the foot of Kunchiniinga,
or Dwahlagiri, as on the Bonn
bay Chats. In order to sat-
isly any reflective mind as to this fact,
it is only necessary to call their atten-
UIOu w Cllo iudp VI DelSdl. AS TO the
disposition Of the ashes of the Mana,
or any other Brahnin after death, it is
/ only necessary to cast them into some
stream which is tributary of the sacred
"Gunga Pawnee." jung Bahadoor is
we'll educated and somewhat plucky
native gentleman, having been educated
first in the Madrissa, Calcutta, then in
England, where he was knighted by the
Queen. He obtained the supreme
power in Nepaul by meeting his uncle
(then the reigning Maharajah) with all
his councillors In full durbar, and i'm
mediately after his entrance into coun-
Gil, shooting the aforesaid uncle con
call, " and with revolver in each hand
turning around and asking the other
members Of the council whether they
preferred to be shot on the
spot or to tender their allegiance
to him. Against such a man as