Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-12-07

course we were put On smaller IN-
mediately i'll order that they might share
with u.s. but we knew that the coming OF his
reinforcement would help us 20 hold the
place until further relief should come. Had
not this first relief arrived as ii did In day
or two at most and perhaps in any hour tho
besiegers would have broken In, and our end
woull have come. The Sepoys had dug six
mines un Ter the residency and would soon
have exploded all"
After we had obtained few bullets that
had been pickle out of the wall, AMI ptec3
of the bombshelI, we walked around the elO-
quent rulls and put our hands into the scars
Of the shattered masonry and explored the
cemetery inside the fort, where hundreds o.
the dead soldiers await the coming OF the
Lord OF Hosts at the last day, and we
could endure no more. Ny nerves were
all a-tremble, AMI my emotions were
wrung out, and I said, 'Let us CO. T
had seen the residancy at Lucknow the
day before with q beloved missionary,
aud he told me many interesting facts con-
cerning the besiegement OF that place, bur
this morning had seen it in company with
one who in that awful 1857 OF the Indian
mutiny with bis own fire had fought the be-
segers an1 with his own ear had heard tee
yell of the mtscreants as they tried to storm
the walls, and with his own eyes had Wit
messed a scene OF plnS AMI sacrifice and en-
durance and bereavement and proves ant
rescue which has made all this Lucknow
fortress and its surroundings the Mount Cal
vary OF the nineteenth century.
On the following day, about four miles
from the resi1ency, [ visited the grave o.
Havelock. The scenes of hardship an s3lt
sacrifice through which he hrd passed wer9
too much for mortal endurance, and few
DAYS after Havelock left the resilency which
he had relieved he lay in a tent a-dying.
while his son. whom saw in LONDON on my
way here, WAS reading to the old hero tho
consolatory Scriptures. The telegraph
wires had told all Nations that Have
lock was sick unto death. He nat
received the m eSsaye Of cougratulatiOn tro n
Queen Victoria over his triumphs anl hat
been knighte !, an 81 oh Il reception as Eng
land never gaveto any man since WollinS-
ton camc back from Waterloo awaited his
return. But he will never again see his n9-
tive land. He has led his last army an
planned the last battle. Yet he Is to gaia
another victory. he declared it when in
his last hours he saidto General Outram II
die happy and contented. | have for forty
years so ruled my life that when death cam9
I might face it without fear. To diets
gain" Indeed this was no new sentimen-
tality with him. He once stated that In
boyhood with tour companions he was &C.
customed to seek the "seclusion of one OF
the dormitories for purposes Of devotion,
though certain in those days of being brand.
ed as MethodiSts and canting hypocrtes.
He had in early life been immersed in Bap-
tist church. He acknowledged Godin every
that he owes it ''to the power Of the Enfield
rifle in British hands to British pluck and to
the blessing Of Almighty Col on q most
righteous cause" He was accustomed to
spend two hours every morning in prayer
and Bible reading, and if the army was to
march at o'clock he arose for purposes Of
religious devotion at 6 o'clock, and If the
army was 10 march at 6o'clock he arose at 4.
A plain monument marks Havelock's
grave, but the epttapA Is as beautiful ana
L.
and copied it then aud there, AM 1t 1s as
follows "Here rest the mortal remains OF
Henry Havelock, ma or general in the Brit
ish army and Knight Comman Ter of the
Bath, who died at Dllkoosha Lucknow OF
dysentry produced by the hardships OF q
campaign in which he achieved immortal
fame, on the 9th OF November, 1857.
He was born on the 5th Of April, 1875. at
Bishops, Wermouth County, Durham, Eng
/ land. Entered the army 1915. Came to In
dia 1923 and served there with little inter-
ruptton till his death. He bore an hOnorabls
part In the wars of Burma, Afghanistan, the
Mahratta campaign Of 1913 and tho Sutlij OF
1915. Retained by adverse circumstances
Ill subordinate position, it was the aim
of his life to show that the profession OF
a Christian Is consistent with tho fullest
discharge Of the duties Of soldier. He
commanded a division in tho Persian expe-
dttion Of 1857. In the terrible CONFUSION OF
that year his genius AMI character were ut
length fully developed AMI known to the
world. Saved from shipWreck on the Cey-
lon coast by the Providence which designed
him for greater things, he was nominated
to the command of the column destined to
relieve the brave garrison OF Lucknow.
This object, after almost supernuman
exerton, he, by the blessing of God, ac-
complished. But he was not spared to re-
ceive on earth the reward he so dearly
! earned. The Divine Master whom he
served saw fit to remove him from the sphere
Of his labor in tho moment Of his greatest
| triumphs. He departed to his Fest In hum
BILE but confident expectation Of far greater
rewards and honors which a grateful coun-
! try was anxious to bestow. In him the skill
OF Il commander, the courage and devotion
| of soldier, the learning of scholar, the
grace of highly bred gentleman and all
! the social and domestic virtues of a hus-
| band, father and friend were blend
| ed together, an strengthened, harmonized
and adorned by the spirit of a true Chris
tan, the result of the influence of the Holy
| Spirit on his heart, and of an humble relt-
ance on the merits Of q crIcltied Saviour
| II Timothy, iv., 7, 8: Il have fought good
kept the faith. Henceforth there Is laid up
| for me a crown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at
that day, and not to me only, but unto all
them also that love His appearing. This
monument is erected by his sorroTing widow
and family"
| Is not that magnificent? But I said while
J standing at Haveiock's grave, Why does not
England take his dust to herself, and in
| Westminster abbey make him pillow? In
all her history Of wars there is no name 50
magnetic, yet she has expressed nothing
on this mans tomb. His widow reared tn }
tombstone. Do you say, Let him sleep i'll
| the region where he did his grandest deeds?"
The same reason would have buried We'll
| lington in Belgium, and Won Moltke at Ver-
| sailles, and Grant at Vicksburg, and Stone
wall Jackson far away from his beloved
Lexington, Va. Take him home, o Eng
| land! The rescuer of the men, women and
| children at Lucknow His ear now dulled
| could not hear the roll of the organ when it
sounds through the venerable abbey the
| national anthem. But it would hear the
| same trumpet that brings up from among
| those sacred walls the form of Outram, his
fellow hero in the overthrow of the Indian
| mutiny. Let Parliament make appropria-
ton from the national treasury. and some
| great war ship under some favOrite admira
sail across Mediterranean and Abraham seas,
| and wait at Bombay harbor for the coming
of this conqueror of conquerors. and then,
saluted by the shipping OF all free nations
let him pass on and pass up and come under
the arches of the abbey and along the aistes
where have been carried the mightiest dead
| of many centuries.