The free press., 1894-12-20
II was about o'clock in the evening when

7 came upon this place in Cawnpur. Lho
, building In which the massacre TOOK Pieoo
has been tom down, and q garden ol .ha eA
cmisite andfragrant flowers surrounds tne
scene. Mr.. Lee pointed out to US SONS
seventy mounds containing bodies or por-
, ,ions OF bodies of those not thrown into tue
well. soldier stands on guard to Keep tne
foliage and flowers from being rutnie5s'y
pulled. I asked q soldier II L mlgnt taKe
rose as n memento, and he handed me
cluster of roses. red and white. both coiors
suppestiye TO me--the red typical OF the car
mage there enacted, and the white Tor tne
purity of those who from that spot ascenueu.
Bur of course the most absorbing interest
concentrated at the well, into Which -hun-
dreds of women and children were hung or
lowered. A circular wall of white marble
incloses this we'll. The wall Is about twenty
feet high Inside this wall there is q marble
payement. paced 1t and found 1t fifty
seven PAGES around. In tho center OF th's
Enclosure and Immediately above the we'll OF
the dead is a sculptured angel OF re5urreo-
tion with iIumined face, and two palm
branches. meaning victory. This angel Is
looking down toward the slumberers pc
neath but the two wings suggest the rising
| of the last day. Mighty consolation In mar.
BILE They went down under the 'hatcnets OF
the sepoys. They shall come up under tne
trumpet that shall wake the dead. L telt
weak and all a-tremble as L stoo1 readnS
these words on the stone that covers the
well "Sqcred to the perpetual memory OF
n great company OF Christian people, chieny
women and children, cruelty massacred
near this spot by the REBEL Mana Sahlo, ana
thrown, the dying with the dead. INTO o- .ns :,
we'll beneath on the 18th day of July. 1897.
| On the arch of the mauso cum were cut the
words. "These are they who came out OF
| great tribuatioE.
The sun was sinking beneath the horizon
as came down the seven or elSnt steps OF
that place of sepulcher, and | bethought
myself "No emperor. unless 1t was Napoi-
leon, ever had more glories around his pill
low of dust, and no queen, unless it wera
the one of Tai Mahal had reared for her
prander cenotaph than crowns the resting
places of the martyrs OF Cawnpur. But
whers rest the bones of the Herod OF the
nineteenth century. Mana Sahib? Two men
sent out to find the whereabouts OF the
daughter OF General Wheeler TRACKED Mana
Sahib during weeks ride into the wilder
dess, and they were told that for awhile
after the mutiny Mana Sahib set up little
pomp in the juugles. Among u few thousad
Hindoos and Mohammedaus he took for him
self the only two tents the neighhors mad,
while they lived in the rain and mud. Mana
Sabib, with one servant carrying an um,
brela, would go every day to bathe, ana
people would go and sture. For some
reason, after awhile he forsook even
that small attention, and d1snp-
reared among the ravines Of the
iIimalayan Mountains. He took with
him In his flight that which he always took
with him--a ruby OF vast value. lie worelt
rs some wear an amulet. He wore it as
some wear life preserver. He wore 1t on
his bosom. The Hindoo 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. SOLO
mon, who had rubies in the hilt OF swords,
and rubies in the lip of tho tankards. and
rub,es in his crown, declared that which
Mana Sahib did not hndOut in time, wis
dom is better than rubie5." When the
forests OF India are cleared by the axes OF an
other civilization, tho lost ruby OF this Gavin
pur monster may be picked up and be
brought back again to blaze among the
worlds Jewels. But who shall reclaim Tor
decent sepulture the remains of Mana Sahib?
Ask the vuturesl Ask the reptiles! ASK
the iaclals Ask the midnight Himalayas
Much criticism has been made OF Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell be-
cause of the exterminating work they dld
with these sepoys. Indeed 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 would be found flying through the air.
You may do your own criticism. here ex-
press no opinion. There can be no doubt,
however, that that mode or finally treating
the sepoys broke the back of the mutiny.
The Hindoos found that the Europeans
could play at the same game which
tho Asiatics had started. The plot
was organized for the murder OF
all the Europeans and Americans in
India. Under It's knives and bludgeons
American Presbyterianism lost its glorious
missionaries, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell
Rev. Mr. an Mrs. MacMulln. Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman.
| The work OF slaughter had been begun i'll
all directions on an appalling scale, and the
commanders Of the English army made up
their minds that this was the best way.
The Black Hole prison has been torn
down. but stone pavement twenty feet by
twenty 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 one room of twenty feet feet by
twenty feet lag Europeans. The midsummer
heat, the suffocation. the tramplng OF one
| upon another, the groaning and ShrleklnS
and begging and praying OF all, are matters
of history. The sepoys that night held lights
to the small windows and Knocked the suffer-
ers. Then all tho sounds cease1. That
night of June 20. 1856, passed, and 1913
| cOrESeS were taKen out. Only tWenty-tnTee
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 a
prisoner six years. Lucknow In 1857 was
only an echo uf Calcutta in 1756. During the
muriny of which have been speaking na-
tives who had been in the service OF Euro
peans and we'll treated by them, and with nc
cause Of offense, would, at the call OF the
mutineers, and without any compunction
stab to death the fathers and mothers OF the
household aud dash out the brains OF the
children. These natives are ut peace now
but give them chance, and they will re
enact the scenes of 1856 and 1857. They lool
upon the English as conquerors and them
selves as conquered. The mutiny of 1s5'
occurred because the British Governmen
was too lenient and put in places of trus
and In command of forts too many of tn
natives.
call upon England to stop the present at
tempt to palliate tho natives by allowing
them to hold positions of trust. l am nc
alarmist, but the only way these Asiatics can
be- kept from another mutiny Is to put then
out OF power, and I say beware, or the Luck
now and Cawnpur and Delhi martyrdoms,
IL. l.. H.