The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-14
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
Rev. DR.. Talnlage Disoourses on the
Massacre Of Cawnpore.
And Draws Contrast Between the ''Beau-
tiesv Of Mohammedanism and Hin
dooism and the Religion Of
the Gospel of Jesus.

lllS IlOunu GllC w tlu cCitNo, 40 = hfOA
through the press this week by Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage. Its subject; "Tht
City of Blood, is based on the text:
Our bones are scattered at the graves
mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood
upon the earth. But mine eyes are unto Thee
God the Lord.-Psalms cxii..7.
Though you may read this text from
the Bible, read it as cut by chisel
into the pedestal Of cross beneath
which lie many of the massacred al
Cawnpore, India. To show you what
Hindooism and Mohammedanism real
ly are, where they have full swing,
and not as they represent themselves
in parliament of religions" and to
demonstrate to what extent of cruelty
and abominatlon human nature may
go when fully let loose, and to illus
trate the hardening process of sin, and
to remind you how our glorious Chris
tianity may utter it's triumph over
death and the grave, preach this my
second sermon in the "Round the
World" series, and I shall speak of
1.-The City of Blood" or Cawnpore,
India.
Two hours and ten minutes after its
occurrence, Joseph Lee, of the Shrop-
shire regiment of foot, rode in upon
the Cawnpore massacre. He was the
first man / met at Cawnpore. wanted
to hear the story from some one who
had been here in 1857, and with his
own eyes gazed upon the slaughtered
heaps of humanity. l could hardly
wait until the horses were put up to
the carriage, and Mr.. Lee seated with
us, started for the scene. the story of
which makes tame in contrast all Mo-
doc and Choctaw butcheries.
1t seems that all the worst passions
of the century were to be impersonated
by one man, and he, Mana Sahib, and
our escort at Cawnpore, Joseph Lee,
knew the man personally. Unfortun-
ately, there is no correct picture of
Mana Sahib in existence. The pictures
of him published in the books of Eu
rope and America, and familiar to us
all, are an amusing mistake. This is
the fact in regard to them: A lawyer
of England was called to India for the
purpose of defending the case of a ma
tive who had been charged with fraud.
The attorney came and SO skillfully
managed the case of his client that
the client paid him enormously for
his services, and he went back
to England, taking with him a
picture of his Indian client. After a
while the mutiny in India broke out,
Mana Sahib was mentioned as the
champion villain of the whole affair,
and the newspapers of England wanted
a picture of him and to interview some
one on Indian affairs who had recently
been in India. Among others the
journalists called upon this lawyer,
lately returned. The only picture he
had brought from India was picture
of his client, the man charged with
fraud. The attorney gave this picture
to the journals as specimen of the
way the Hindoos dress, and forthwith
that picture was used, either by mis-
take or Intentionally, for Mana Sahib.
The English lawyer said he lived in
dread that his client would some
day see the use made of his picture,
and it was not until the death of his |
Hindoo client that the lawyer divulged |
the facts. Perhaps it was never in |
tended that the face of such demon !
should be preserved amid human rec
ords. / said to our escort: ''Mr. Lee,
was there any popularity in Mana
Sahib's appearance" The reply was: |
Nothing very peculiar; he was dull, |
azy, cowardly, sensual man, brought |
up to do nothing, and wanted to con-
,inue on the same scale to do nothing"
From what Mr.. Lee told me, and from
I'll could learn in India, Mana Sahib |
ordered the massacre in that city from
iheer revenge. His father abdicated
he throne, and the English paid him
annually pension of four hundred
thousand dollars. When the father
lied the English government declined
o pay the same pension to the son,
'ana Sahib, but the poor fellow was
lot in any way suffering from lack OF
unds. His father left him eighty thou
and dollars in gold ornaments; five
undred thousand dollars in jewels;
light hundred thousand dollars in
'onds, and other resources amounting
o at least fifteen hundred thousand
ollars. But the poor young man was
ot satisfied, and the Cawppore mas
acre was his revenge. Gen. Wheeler,
he Englishman who had command of
his city, although often warned, could
ot see that the Sepoys were planning
or his destruction, and that of all his
egiments, and all the Europeans in
awnpore.
Mr.. Lee explained all this to me by
he fact that Gen. Wheeler had mar
led native, and he naturally took
Ter story, and thought there was no
,eril But the time for the proclama-
ion from Mana Sahib had come, and