Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-10
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
A GRAPHIC STORY OF TaB MASSACRE AT
CAWNPORE,
Told By Rev. T. Dewitt Talnags in Bis Sermon
Of Ysssrday-Ths Horrible Atrocities Of the
India Maluy Pictured With Historic Fidelity.

World" series OF sermons, the subject
being, Psalms 1877, "Our bones are
scattered at the graves mouth, as when
one cutteth aud cIeaveth wood upon the
earth. But mine eyes are unto thee, .
God the Lord"
He said;-ThoUgh you may read this
text from the Bible, l read il IS cut by
ehise into the pedestal Of a cross be-
meath which lie many Of the mastered
at Cawnpore, India. To show you what
Hndoolsm and MOhammedanIsm really
are, where they have full swing. and
not as they represent themselves in a
PARLIAMENT OF Religions" aud to dem
Onstrate TO what extent Of cruelty and
aOCminatiOn human nature may go
when fully let loose, ana % illustrate
the hardening process Of sin, aud 70 re-
mind you how our glorious Christianity
may utter It's triumph over death aud
tue grave, / preach this, my second ser
mon Ia the Round the World" series,
snd / shall speak Of
''rHE CITY OF BLOOD"
or CawnpOre, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after
itS occurrence, Joseph Lee, OF ths
Shropshire Regiment Of Foot, rode 10
upon the CawnpOre massacre. he was
the first man / met at CawnpOre. l
wanted 20 hear the story from some one
who had been here in 1857, and with his
own eyes gazed upon the slaughtered
heaps Of humanity. 1 could hardly
wait until the horses we're put 70 the
carriage, and, Mr.. Lee, seated with US,
started for the scene, the story OF which
makes tame in contrast all AIOdOc aud
Choctaw butcheries.
Ii seems that ali the worst passions
of the century were 90 be impersOnated
by one man, and he, Mana Sahib, I'd
our escort az CswnpOre, Joseph Lee,
knew the man personally. UniOrtu-
nately, there is no correct picture OF
Mana Sahb in existence. The pictures
OF him published 10 the books Of Eu-
rope and America, and familiar to US
ALL are
AN AMUSING MISTAKE.
This is the fact in regard 20 them: A
lawyer OF England was called to India
for the purpose Of defending the case Of
a native who had been charged with
fraud. The attorney came aud so skill
fully managed the case Of his client
that the client paid him enormously for
his services, aud be went back 70 Eng
land, taking with him picture OF his
Iudian client After a while the mutiny
To India broke out, and Mana SahiO
was mentioned as tue champion villain
of the whole affair, aud the newSpaperS
Of England wanted picture Of him and
10 Interview some one OIL Indian aHdirs
who had recently been 10 India. Ahong
others the journalists called ug6n this
lawyer lately returned. The Snly pict-
ure ne had brought from k6dia was a
HIESI-8is client, the-man charged
The attyFney gave this
Journale as a specimen OF
indooG dress, add forth
jFas aSed, either by
klouaIly, for Mana Sa-
Nsh lawyer said be
HvED IN DREAD
MT would some day see the
his picture, and it was not
Hdeath Of his HindOO client
~ lawyer divulRed the facts.
Ds &c was never intended that the
such demon should be pre-
.uid human records. / said 70
fE "Mr. Lee, was there any
fHy In Mana Sahib's appear
~ The reply was, Nothing very
culiar; he was a dull, lazy, cOwardly,
snsual man, brought mp TO do nothing,
End wanted % continue on the same
scale 10 do nothing" From what Mr..
Lee told me, and from all l could
learn in Iudia, Mana Sahib ordered the
massacre 10 that city from sheer re-
Vsnge. His father abdicated the
throne, and the English PAID him an
nually a pension OF 500, 600. When
the father died, the English govern
ment declined 10 pay the same pension
10 the son, Mana Sahib, but the poor
fellow was not 10 any suffering from
lack OF funds. His father left him SS0,-
600 10 gold ornaments; $500, 600 10
jewels; SSOC 600 In bonds, and other re-
sources amounting 10 at least $780,
600. But the poor young man was not
satisfied. and theCawnpore massacre was
his revenge. General Wheeler, the Eng
lshman who had command Of this city,
although often warned, could not see
that the Sepoys were
PLANNING FOR his DESTRUCTION,
and that OF all Of his regiments, and
fhe Europeans In CawnpOre.
Mr.. Lee explained all this TO me BY
the fact that General Wheeler had mar
RED q native, aud be naturally took her
stOry, and thought there was no peril.
But the time for the proclamation from
Mana Sahib bad come, and such dOcu-
nent went forth as never before bad
seen the light OF day. l give only an
extract:
"As by the kindness OF God, and the
good fortune of the Emperor, all the
Christians who were at Delhi, POonah,
sattara aud other places, and even those
5000 European soldiers who went in dis
Euise into the former city and were dis
covered, are destroyed aud seut TO he'll
by the pious and sagSciOus troops, who
are firm 20 their religion, and as they
have all been conquered by the present
government, and as no trace Of them is
left 10 these places, it is the duty Of al
the subjects and servants Of the govern
ment 90 rejoice at the delightful intelll-
gence. and carry on their respective
work with comfort and ease. As by the
bounty OF the glorious Almighty ana the
enemy destroying fortune Of the En-
peror, the yellow faced and narrow
minded people have been sent to hell,
aDd CawnpOre has been conquered, il is