Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27


tremble as I stood reading these words
on the stone that covers the well;
Sacred to the perpetual memory OF a
great company of Christian people,
chiefly women and children, cruelty
massacred near this spot by the rebel,
Mana Sahib, and thrown, the dying
with the dead, into the well beneath on
the 18th day of July, 1851" On the arch
of the mausoleum were cut the words;
These are they who came out of great
tribulation."
The sun was sinking beneath the
horizon as came down the seven or
eight steps of that palace of sepul-
chre, and ! bethought myself: mo
| emperor, unless it was Napoleon, ever
( had more glorics around his pillow OF
dust, and no queen, unless it were the
grander cenotaph than crowns the rest
ing places of the martyrs at Cawnpore.
But where rest the bones of the Herod
of the nineteenth century, Mana Sahib?
No one can tell. Two men sent out to
find the whereabouts of the daughter
of Gen. Wheeler tracked Mana Sahib
during a weeks ride into the wilder
ness and they were told that for a
while after the mutiny Mana Sahib set
up little pomp in the jungles. Among
few thousand Hindoos and Moham-
medans he took for himself the only
two tents the neighborhood had, while
they lived in the rain and mud. Mana
Sahib, with one servant carrying an
umbrella, would go every day to battle,
and people would go and stare. For
some reason, after awhile he forsook
even that small attention and disap-
peared among the ravines of the
Himalayan mountains. He took with
him in his flight that which he always
took with him-a ruby of vast value.
He wore it as some wear an amulet.
He wore it as some wear a life pre-
server. He wore it on his bosom. The
Hlndoo priest told him as long as he
wore that ruby his fortunes would be
good, but both the ruby and the prince
who wore it have vanished. Not
treasure on the outside of the bosom,
but treasure inside the heart is the
best protection. Solomon, who had
rnties in the hilt of swords, and rubies
in his crown. declared that which Mana
Sahib did not find out in his time.
Wisdom is better than rubies." When
the forests of India are cleared by tho
axes of another civilization, the lost
ruby of this Cawnpore monster may
be picked up and be brought back
again to blaze among the world 5 jewels
But who shall reclaim for decent sepul
ture the remains of Mana Sahib? Ask
the vultures Ask the reptiles. Ask
the iaclSals. Ask the midnight lima
layas.
Much criticism has been made of Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Camp
bell because of the DISCRIMINATING
work they did with these Sepoys. In.
deed, it was awful. My escort, Mr.. Lee,
has told me that he saw the Sepoys
fastened to the mouths of cannon, and
then the guns would fire, and for few
seconds there would be nothing but
smoke, and as the smoke began to lift.
fragments of flesh wocld be found fly
ing through the air. Yoa may do your
own criticism. here cypress no opin-
ion There can be no doubt. however.
that that mode e nllly treating the
Sepoys broke til nNak Of the matiny.
The Hindoos four that the Europeans
could play at the same game which the
Asiatics had started The plot was or
ganized for the murder of all Europe |
ans and Americans in India. Under |
its knives and bludgeons American |
lost its glorious mis-. |
sionaries, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Camp. |
bell, Rev Mr.. and Mrs. McMui- |
lin, Rev Mr.. and Mrs. johnson.
Rev. Mr.. and Mrs Freeman. The work |
of slaughter had been begun in all di-
rections on an appalling scale, and the
up their minds that this was the best
way to stop it. A mild and gentle war
with the Sepoys was an impossibility.
The natives of India ever and anon
have demonstrated their cruelty
stood on the very spot in Calcutta where
the natives of India in 1856 enacted
that scene which no other people on
earth could have enacted. The Black
Hole prison has been torn down, but
a stone pavement twenty feet by TWEEN
ty indicates the ground covered by the
prison. The building had two small
and was intended for two
Or three prisoners. These natives of
India crowded into that room of TWEEN
~ by twenty feet l46 Europeans The
heat, the suffocation, the
of one upon another, the
yroaning and shrieking and begging
md praying of all, are matters of his
.ory. The Sepoys that night held lights
10 the small windows and moclle
he sufferers Then all the sounds
,eased. That night of June 30, 1856,
passed and one hundred and twenty
hree corpses were taken out. Only |
wenty-three people of the 146 were
live, and they had to be pulled ous
rom under the corpses. Mrs. Carey.
Who survived, was taken by the Indian
labob into his harem and kept a pris-
,ner six years. Lucknow in 1857 was
: " an echo of Calcutta in 1855. Dur
az the mutiny of which / have been {
pealSing. natives who had been in the