Connecticut western news., 1894-12-13

Iy treating the sepoys broke the back of the mutiny. The Hindoos found that the Europeans could play at the same game which the Asiatics had started. The plot was organized for the murder of all the Europeans and Americans in India. Under its knives and bludgeons American Presbyterianism lost its glori- ous missionaries, Rev. Mir. and Mrs. Campbell, Rev. Mir. and Mrs DMacMul- hn,. Rev. Mir. and Mrs Johnson. Rev. MT. and Mrs. Freeman. The work of slaughter had been begun in all direc- tions on an appalling scale, and the commanders of the English army made 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. I stood on the very spot in Calcutta where the na- tives of India in 1756 enacted that scene which no other people on earth could have enacted.
 The Black Hole prison has been torn down, but a stone pavement 90 feet by 20 indicates the ground covered by the prison. The building had two small windows and was intended for two or three prisoners. These natives of India crowded into that one room of 20 feet by 20 feet 146 Europeans. The midsum- mer heat, the suffocation, the trampling of one upon another, the groaning and shrieking and begging and praying of all, are matters of history. The sepoys that night held lights to the small win
 
 all the sounds ceased. That night of June 20, 1756. passed, and 123 corpses were taken out. Only 23 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 8 prisoner six years. Lucknow in 1857 was only an echo of Calcutta in 1756. During the mutiny of which have been speaking natives who had been in the service of Europeans and well treated by them, and with no cause of offsnse, would, at the call of the mutineers, and without any compunotion, stab to death the fathers and mothers of the household and dash out the brains of the children. These natives are at peace now, but give them a chance, and they will re-enact the scenes of 1758 and 1857. They look upon the English as oonquerors 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. I
 England Too Lenient.
 call upon England to stop the pres ent attempt to palliate the natives by allowing them to hold positions of trust. l am no alarmist but the only way that these Asiatios can be kept from another mutiny is to put them out of power, and I say beware, or the Lucknow and Cawnpur and Delhi martyrdoms, over which the henispheres have wept, will be eclipsed blythe Lucknow and Cawn- pur and Delhi martyrdoms yet to be enacted. Ispeak of what have seen and heard. give the opinion of every intelligent Englishman and Sootchman and Irishman and. American whom l met in India Prevention is better than cure. do not say it Is better that Eng land rule India say nothing against the right of India to rule herself, but do say that the moment the native pop ulation of India think there is possi- bility of driving back Europeans from India they will make the attempt, and that they have enough cruelties for the time suppressed, which, if let loose, would submerge with carnage every thing from Calcutta to Bombay and from the Himalayas to Coromandel.
 Now, my friends, go home, after what I have said, to see the beauties of the Mohammedanism and Hindooism which many think it will be well to have introduced into America, and to dwell upon what natural evolution will do where 1t has had its unhindered way for thousands of years, and to think upon the wonders of martyrdom for Christ's sake, and tospray more earnest prayers for the missionaries, and to con- tribute more largely for the worlds evangelization, and to be. more assured than ever that the overthrow of the idolatries of nations is such stupen- dous work that nothing but an omnipo- tent God through the gospel of Jesus Christ can ever achieve it. Amenl s