Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-12-21


walI beneath on the 18th day OF July, 1897.
IN Inc arch of the mausoleum were cut the
words tTThese are they who came ous OF
great tribulation."
The sun was sinking beneath the horizon
as oame down the seven or eight steps OF
that tlace Of sepulcher, and l bethougnt
myself "No emperor, unless 1t vas Napoi-
leon. ever had more gories around ms Pill
low OF dust, ana no queen, unless IL Were
the one Of Tai Mahal, had reared for ner
Grandef cenotaph than crowns the resting
places OF the martyrs OF CaTnpur' Dul
where rest the bones OF the Herod OF the
nineteenth century. Mana Sahib2 Two men
sent out TO find the whereabouts OF the
dadghtet Of General Wheeler tracked Mana
Sahib during d weeks ride into tho wilder
de,s, and they were told that Tor aWniie
after the mutiny Mana Sahb set up little
ponp in the iungIes. Among q few thousad
Hinfoos and Mohammedans he took for him
set the oAly two tents the nelghbors had.
while they lived In tho rain and null Mana
Sahih, with one servant carrying an um.
brela, would go every day to battle, and
proJle woul1 10 and stare. For some
relSon, after awhile he forsook even
that small attention, and disap-
peared among tho ravines OF tna
Himalayan Mountains. He took WIN
him in his flight that which he always TOOK
with him--a ruby Of vast value He wore II
as some wear an amulet. He wore II as
SO nc wear q life preservsr. He wore it Oh
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 1t have vanished Not treasure
on tho outside OF the bosom, but treasure
inside The heart is the best protection. 500
mon. who had rub In the hilt OK swords,
and rubies in the LID of the tankards. and
rubes in his crown, declared that Wnlcu
Mana Sahlb did not find out in time, wis
dom is better than ru5ies." Wnen the
forests OF India are cleared by the axes OIL an
Other civilization, the lost ruby OF this GAVIN
pur monster may be picked up and DC
brought back aglin TO blaze among Inc
worlds Jewels. But who shall reclaim 1or
decent sepulture the remains OF Mans SanlD'
Ask the vultures Ask the reptiles ASH
the jackals Ask the midnight Himaayas'
Much criticism has been made OF Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell be-
cause of the eXtermlnatng work they did
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 Tor 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 OF finally treating
the sepoys broke the back OF the mutiny.
The Hindoos found that the Europeans
could play at the same game which
the AsatIcs had started. The plot
was orsanzsl for the murder OF
all the Europeans and Americans ID
India. Under its knives and bludgeonI
American Presbyterianism lost It's glorious
missionaries, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell u,
Rev. Mr.. an Mrs. MacMullln. Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman.
The work OF slaughter had been begun In
all directions on IN appalling scale, AMI tho
commanders ofthe English army male up
their minds that this was the best way.
The Black Hole prison has besn torn
down, but a stone pavement twenty feet by
twenty indicates tho groun1 covered by tho
prison. The building had two small WIN
dows, and was intended for two or three
prisoners. These natives OF India crowded
into that ons room of twenty feet feet by
twenty feet 146 Europeans. Tho midsummer
heat, the sutfocation, the tramplilg OF one
upon another, the grooming and shriekihg
and begging an praying OF all. are matters
of history. The sepoys that mig held lights
10 the small win lowl and moc2ai the suffer-
ers. Then all the sounds cease1. Tint
night of June 20, 1856, pissed, and 1873
corrsss were taken out. OlIy twenty-three
people OF the 146 we're al:y', AMI they had
to bs pulled out from under the corpses.
Mrs. Carey, wh) survived, WAS taken by the
Indian nabo5 into his harOm and kept q
prisoner six years. Lucknow in 1851 was
only IN echo Of Calcutta in 1856. During the
mutiny Of which have been speaking ma
tive9 who had been in the service OF Euro
peans and we'll treated by them, an with no
cause Of offense, would, at the call OF the
mutineers, and without any conjunction,
stab 10 death the fathers and mothers OF the
household AMI dash out the brains OF the
children. Thess 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 them
selves as conquered. The mutinY OF 1857
occurred because tbs British Government
was too lenient IN put in places OF trust
and in command Of forts too many OF the
natives.
/ call upon Eng,nn to stop the present at
tempt TO paliats the natives by allowing
them to hold positions of trust. l am no
alarmist, but the only way these AsiaticS can
be kept from another mutiny Is to put them
out of power, and say beware, or the Luck
now and Cawnpur AMI Delhi martvrdoms
over which the hemispheres have wept, will
be eclipsed by the Lucknow and Cawnpur
and Delhi martrydoms yet to be enacted.
speak OF what l have seen and heard. Igive
the opinion O. every intelligent Engishman
and Scotchman and Irishman and American
whom l met in India. Prevention is bcitet
than cure. l do not say 1t is better that
England rule in India. say nothing against
the right o, India to rule herself, but 1 do
say that the moment the native population OF
India think there is possibility OF driving
back Europeans from India they will make the
attempt, and tina. they have enough cruel
ties for the time suppressed, which, If let
loose, would submerge with carnage every
thing from Calcutta 10 Bombay and from the
Himnlayas to Coromandel.
Now, my friends, go home, after what
have said, to see the beauties OF the No.
hammedanism and Hin1ooism winch many
think 1t will be we'll to have introduced into
America, and 10 dwell upon what natural
evolution will do where It has had its I'M
hindered way for thousands Of years, and to
think upon the wonders of martyrlom for
Christ's sake, and 10 pray more earnest
prayers for tho missionaries, and to con-
tribute more largely for tho worlds evange-
lization, and TO be more assured than ever
that the overthrow Of the idolatrlcs of Ma
lions Is such a stupehd6us WORK that MOTH
ing hu. nm omnipotent God through the
rOSn"' ~ Jesus CnriSt con ever achieve IT,