The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14

when j came upon this place in Gavin.
pore. The building in which the mas
sacre took place has been torn down
and garden of exquisite and fragrant
flowers surrounds the scene. Mr.. Lee
pointed out to us some seventy mounds
containing bodies or portions of bodies
1 of those not thrown into the we'll A
soldier stands ON guard to keep the fo :
! liage and flowers from being ruthless
ly pulled.
But, of course, the most absorbing
interest concentered 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 20 feet high Inside
this wall there is marble pavement.
paced, and found it fifty-seven PAGES
around. In the center of this inclos-
ure, and Immediately above the well
of the dead, is a sculptured angel of
resurrection, with illumined 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.
The sun was sinking beneath the
horizon as / came down the seven or
eight steps of that palace as sepul-
cher, and bethought myself: mo en-
peror, unless Napoleon. ever had more
glories around his pillow of dust, and
no queen, unless it were the one of
Tai Mahal, had reared for her grander
cenotaph than crowns the resting-place
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 Sa-
hib during weeks ride into
the Wilderness, and they were told
that for awhile after the mutiny
Mana Sahib set up little pomp in the
iungles. Among few thousand Hin
docs and Mohammedans he took for
himself the only two tents the neigh
bors had, while they lived in the rain
and mud. Mana Sahib, with one serv-
ant carrying an umbrella, would go
every day to bathe. and people would
go and stare. For some reason. after
awhile he forsook even that small at
tention and disappeared among the ra-
vines 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 q
life-preserver. He wore it on his bo-
som. 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.
Much criticism has been made of Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Camp
bell because of the exterminating
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 Il few
moments there would be nothing but
smoke, and as the smoke began to lift
fragments of flesh would be found fly
ing through the air. You may do your
own criticism. | here express no
opinion. There can be no doubt, how
ever. that the mode of finally treating
the Sepoys broke the back of the mu-
tiny. The Hindoos found that the Euro
peans 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
glorious missionaries, Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. Campbell, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Mac
Mullin, 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
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.
/ stood on the very spot in Calcutta
where the natives of India in 1856 en-
acted that scene which no other people
on earth could have enacted. The
but stone pavement 30 feet by 20 in
dicates the ground covered by the pris-
on. The building had two small win
dows, and was intended for two or
three prisoners. These natives of In
dia crowded into that one room of 20
feet by 90 feet 146 Europeans The
midsummer heat. the SuffcatiOn, the
trampling of one upon another, the
groaning and shrieking and begging
and praying of all, are matters of his
tory. The Sepoys that night held lights
to the small windows and Knocked the
sufferers. Then all the sounds ceased.
That night of June 20, 1876 passed, and
123 corpses were taken out.
During the mutiny of which have
been speaking, natives who had beer
in the service of Europeans and well
treated by them, and with no cause of
offense, would at the call of the mutt
neers and without any compunction
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
chance and they will re-enact the
scenes of 1856 and 1857. They look
upon the English as conquerors and
themselves as conquered. The mutiny
of 1857 occurred because the
British government was too leni-
ent and put in places of trust,
and in command of forts. too many
of the natives. call upon England to
stop the present attempt to palliate
the natives by allowing them to hold
positions of trust. | am no alarmist,
but the only way that these Asiatics
can be kept from another mutiny is to
r,ut than ont of ro1yar and Sav. Ra-