The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-12


were for many hours engaged in covering
the dead.
1t was about o'clock in the evening when
l came upon this place in Cawnpur. The
building in which the massacre took place
has been torn down, and a garden Of ex-
Quisite and fragrant flowers surrounds the
scene. Mr.. Lee pointed out TO us some
seventy mounds containing bodies or por-
tons Of bodies OF those not thrown into the
we'll A soldier stands on guard 70 keep
the foliage and flowers from being ruthless
~ pulled. I asked a soldier If / might take
a rose as a mementO, and he handed me
cluster Of roses, red and white, both col0rs
suggestive to me-the red typical OF the
carnage there enacted and the white for the
purity Of those who from that spot assembled.
But Of course the most absorbing in
terest concentrated at the well, into
which hundreds of women and children
were flung or lowered. a circular wall OF
white marble inclOseS this well. The wall
is about twenty feet high. inside this wall
there is "a marble pavement. L paced 1t
and found it fifty-sevn PAGES around. In
the center of this inclosure and immediate
~ above the well of the dead is
seulptured angel Of resurrection, with IL
lumined face and two palm branches.
meaning victory. This angel IS looking
down toward the slumberers beneath, but
the two wings suggest the rising Of the
last day. Mighty consolation in marble!
They went down under the hatchets of
the sepOys; they shall come up under the
trumpet that shall wake the dead 1 felt
weak and all a-tremble as 1 stood read
ing these words on the stone that covers
the we'll: Sacred to the perpetual
memory Of a great company Of Christian
people. chiefly women and children, cruel
" massacred near this spot by the rebel,
Mana Sahib, and thrown, the dying with
the dead. into a well beneath on the 18th
day of July, 1851" on the arch Of the
nausoleum were cut the words, These
are they who came out Of great tribula-
ton"
The sun was sinking beneath the horl-
ION as I came down the seven or eight
steps of that palace of sepulcher, and 1
bethought myself. NO emperor. unless it
was Napoleon, ever had more glories
around his pillow of dust. and no queen,
unless it were the one of Tai Mahal, nad
reared for her grander cenOtaph than
crowns the resting places of the martyrs
at Cawnpur" But where rest The bones Of
The Herod Of the nineteenth century, Mana
Sanib? NJ one can tell. Two men sent
out To find the whereabouts of the daugh-
ter OF Gen. Wheeler tracked Mana Sahib
during a weeks ride into the wilderness,
and they were told that for awhile after
tho mutiny Mana S3hib ser up a little
p0mp i'm the jungles. Among a few thou
sand Hindoos and Mohammedans he took
for himself the only two tents the neigh
blrs had, while they lived I'm the rain and
mud. Mana Sahib, with one servant car
rying an umbrella. would 20 every day
u battle, and people would go and stare.
For some reason after awhile he fOrs0Ok
even that small attention and disappeared
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 1t as
some wear amulet. He wore il as some
wear life preServer. He wore ii on his
bosom. The Hindoo priest tod him as
lonf3 as he wore that ruby his fortunes
would be good, but both the ruby and the
prince who wore it have vanished Not a
treasure on the outside of the bosom, but
n treasure inside the heart, is the best pro-
lection Solomon, who had rubies in the
hi-t OF swords, and rubes ia the lip Of the
-3uklrds, and rubies in his crown. declared
that which Mana Sahib did not find out In
time. Wisdom is better than rubies"
When the forests Of India are cleared by
the axes Of another civilization, the iOst
ruby Of this Cawnpur monster may be
picked up and be brought back again to
o.aZe among the worlds jewels But who
shall reclaim for decent sepulture the re-
mains Of Mana Sahib? Ask the vu,tures.
Ask the reptiles! Ask the jackals! Ask
the midnight Hima.ayas,
Much criticism has been made Of Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Coin Campbell,
because of the eXtermnatng work they
Cld with these scpoys. Indeed, it was
awful My escort, Mr.. Lee. mas told me
that he saw The sepoys fastened to the
mouths of cannon, and then the guns
would fire, and for a few seconds there
would be nothing but smoke, and as the
smoke began to lift fragments of flesh
would be found flying through the air. You
may do your own criticism. / here eX-
press no opinion. There can be no doub,,
however. that that mode of finally treating
the sep0ys broke the back Of the mutiny
The Hindoos found that the Europeans
could play at the same gam
which the Asiaucs had started The plo,
was organized for the murder of al the
Europeans and Americans in India. Under
It's knives and budgeOns American presby-
terianism lost its glorious missionaries, tn
Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell, the Rev Mr.
and Mrs. McMullin, the Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson, the Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Free
man. The work of Slaughter had been be-
gun in az directions on an appalling scale.
and the commanders Of the English army
made up their minds that this was the hes,
way 70 stop it, A mild and gentle war
with the sepOys was an impOssibi.ity. The
natives of India ever and SlOn have
demonstrated their cruelty l stood
on the very spot in Calcutta where the ma
tives Of India in 1856 enacted that scene
which no other people on earth could have
clidcteu ne DIdck mole prison mas Deen
torn down, nut q stone pavement 20 feet
by 20 indicates the ground covered by the
prison. The building had two small win
dows and was intended for two or three
prisoners. These natives of India crowded
into that room Of 20 feet by 20 feet 146
Europeans. The midsummer heat the
suffOcaiion. the trampling of one upon an
other, the gr0aning and shrieking and beg
ging and praying Of all are matters Of his
tory. The sepOys that night held lights TO
the small windows and Knocked the suffer
ers. Then all the sounds ceased That
night Of June 20, 1885, passed. and 1913
corpses were taken out. only twenty-three
people Of the 146 were alive. and they had
TO be pulled out from under the corpses.
Mrs Carey, who survived, was taken by the
Indian nabob into his harem and kept
prisoner six years. Lucknow in 1857 was
only an echo Of Calcutta in 1756. During
the mutiny of which L have been speaking
natives who had been in the service of
Europeans and well treated by them, and
with no cause Of Offense. would at the call
Of the mutineers and without any compunc-
ton stab to death the fathers and mothers of
the household and dash out the brains of
the children.
Christianity or HindOOism.
These natives are at peace now, but give
them a chance. and they will re-enact the
scenes OF I756 and 1857. They look upon
the English as conquerors and themselves
as conquered The mutiny Of 1857 occurred
because the British government was too
lenient and put in places Of trust and in
command Of forts too many OF the natives.
/ call upon England to stop the present at
tempt TO palliate the natives by allowing