The Yale expositor., 1894-12-14
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
CAWNPORE. INDIA. A SCENE OF
AWFUL CARNAGE.
Dr. Talmago Tells OF the scenes Re-
called by His wanderlngs About the
City of the Terrible Name sahlb-Des-
crIptIon of the Man.

mage to-day delivered through the press
the second of his Round the World
series of sermons, the subject being,
THE City of Blood" and the text Sc
lected being. Psalms, al vii, Our bones
are scattered at the graves mouth, as
when one cutteth and cleaveth wood
upon the earth. But mine eyes are
unto thee, o God the Lord.
Though you may read this text from
the Bible, l read it as cut by chisel into
tia pedestal of cross beneath which
lie many OF the massacred at GAVIN
pore, India. To show you what Hin
dooism and Northumberland really
are, where they have full swing, and
not as they represent themselves in a
"parliament of religions" and to dem
onstrate to what extent OF cruelty and
abomination human nature may go
when fully let loose, and to illustrate
the hardening process Of sin, and TO
remind you how our glorious Christian
ity may utter its triumph over death
and the grave, preach this my second
sermon in the Round the World" Sc
ries and l shall speak of 1.-The City Of
Blood" or Cawnpore, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after its
occurrence, Joseph Lee ofthe Shropshire
regiment of Foot, rode in upon the
Cawnpore massacre. He was the first
man | met at Cawnpore. / wanted to
hear the story from some one who had
been here in 1857, and with his own
eyes gazed upon the slaughtered heaps
of humanity. l could hardly wait until
| the horses were put to the carriage,
| and, Mr. Lee, seated with us, started
for the scene, the story of which makes
tame in contrast all Modoc and Choc-
| taw butcheries.
II seems that all the worst passions
| of the century were to be impersonated
by one man. and he, Mana Sahib, and
our escort at Cawnpore, Joseph Lee,
| knew the man personally. Unfortu-
nately, there is no correct picture of
| Mana Sahib in existence. The pictures
Of him published in the books OF Eu-
rope and Amsica, and familiar to us
| all, are an amusing mistake. This is
the fact in regard to them: A lawyer
| of England was called TO India for
the purpose of defending the case of
native who had been charged
with fraud The attorney came
and SO sliilfully managed the
case of his client that the
chent paid him enormously for his
services, and he went back TO England,
taking with him picture OF his In
dian client. After awhile the mutiny
in India broke out, and Mana Sahib
was mentioned as the champion villain
of the whole affair. and the news
papers of England wanted picture Of
him and TO interview some one on In
dian affairs who had recently been in
India. Among others the Journalists
called upon this lawyer, lately re-
turned. The only picture he had
brought from India was a picture Of
his client, the man charged with fraud
The attorney gave this picture to the
journals as specimen of the way the
Hindoos dress, and forthwith the pict-
ure was used, either by mistake or in
tentionally, for Mana Sahib. The
English lawyer said he lived in dread
that his client would some day see the
use made of his picture, and it was not
until the death of his Hindoo client
that the lawyer divulged the facts.
Perhaps it was never intended that
the face of such a demon should be
preserved amid human records. ] said
| to our escort: Mr.. Lee, was there
any popularity in Mana Sahib's ap-
pearance?" The reply was, Nothing
very peculiar; he was a dull, lazy
cowardly, sensual man, brought up 10
do nothing, and wanted to continue on
the same scale to do nothing" From
what Mr.. Lee told me, and from an
could learn in India, Mana Sahit
, ordered the massacre in that city from
sheer revenge. His father abdicated
I the throne, and the English paid him
annually pension of S40O, 600. When
the father died, the English govern
I ment declined to pay the same pension
} to the son, Mana Sahib, but the poor
fellow was not in any suffering from
lack of funds. His father left him
$50, 900 in gold ornaments; $500, 900 in
, Jewels; 100000 in bonds, and other
resources amounting to at least 81, 500,
b. 600. But the poor young man was not
!, satisfied, and the Cawnpore massacre
1 was his revenge. Gen. Wheeler, tn,
= Englishman who had command of this
$ city, although often warned, could no
0 see that the Sepoys were planning fol
his destruction, and that of all Iii
regiments, and all the Europeans il
r Cawnpore.
d Mr.. Lee explained all this to me by
u the fact that Gen. Wheeler had mar
p ried native, and he naturally took hei
II story, and thought there was no peril
3. But the time for the proclamation
IL from Mana Sahib had come, and sucl
o a document went forth as never befor
: had seen the light of day. j give onl.
= an extract:
y "As by the kindness of God, and TIL
y good fortune of the emperor, all TIN
le Christians who were at Delhi, Poonah
Sattara and other places, end ever
those ZOO European soldiers who wen
n in disguise into the former city an,
Of were discovered, are destroyed an,
IT sent to hell by the pious and sagaciou
r, troops, who are Grm TO their religion
aI.