The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-12-12

tremble as l stood reading these words
ON the stone that covers the well:
Sacred to the perpetual memory OF
great company of Christian people,
chiefly women and children, cruelty
massacred near this spot by the rebel,
Mana Sahib, and thrown, the dying
with the dead, into the well beneath on
the 18th day of July, 1851" On the arch
of the mausoleum were cut the words:
These are they who came out of great
tribulation."
The sun was sinking beneath the
horizon as came down the seven or
eight steps of that palace of sepul-
chre, and l bethought myself: mo
emperor, unless it was Napoleon, ever
had more glorics 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 rest
ing places 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 Sahib
during weeks ride into the wilder
ness, and they were told that for a
while after the mutiny Mana Sahib set
up little pomp in the jungles. Among
few thousand Hindoos and Moham-
medans he took for himself the only
two tents the neighborhood had, while
hnr sv.% hn u,
Sahib, with one servant 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 attention and disap-
peared among the ravines of the
Himalayan mountains. He took with
him in his fight 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 life pre-
server. He wore it on his bosom. The
Hlndoo 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. Not
treasure on the outside of the bosom,
but treasure inside the heart is the
best protection. Solomon, who had
rubies in the hilt of swords, and rubies
in his crown, declared that which Mana
Sahib did not find out in his time:
"Wisdom is better than rubies." When
the forests of India are cleared by the
axes of another civilization, the lost
ruby of this Cawnpore monster may
be picked up and be brought back
again to blaze among the worlds jewels.
But who shall reclaim for decent sepul-
ture the remains of Mana Sahib? Ask
the vultures. Ask the reptiles. Ask
the jackals Ask the midnight Hima-
| layas
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 few
seconds 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 opin-
ion. 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
Asiatics had started. The plot was Or
ganized for the murder of all Europe
ans and Americans in India. Under
its knives and bludgeons American
Presbyterianism lost its glorious mis-
sionaries, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Camp
bell, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. McMul-
lin, 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. l
stood on the very spot in Calcutta where
the natives of India in 1855 enacted
that scene which no other people on
earth could have enacted. The Black
Hole prison has been torn down, but
stone pavement twenty feet by TWEEN
ty indicates the ground covered by the
prison. The building had two small
,otn 1o1
or three prisoners. These natives oil
India crowded into that room of TWEEN
ty by twenty feet 146 Europeans. The
midsummer heat, the suffocation, 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 90 1856,
passed and one hundred and twenty.
three corpses were taken out. Only
twenty-three people of the 146 were
alive, and they had to be pulled out
from under the corpses. Mrs. Carey,
who survived, was taken by the Indian
nabob into his harem and kept pris.
oner six years. Lucknow in 1857 was
only an echo of Calcutta in 1856 Dur.
ing the mutinS of which have been
speaking, natives who had been IN the
service of Europeans and well treated
by them, and with no cause of offense
would at the call of the mutineers and
without any compunction stab to death
the fathers and mothers of the house.
hold and dash out the brains of the
children. These natives are at peace
now, but give them chance and they
will re-euact the scenes of 1856 and
1857. They look upon the English as
conquerors and themselves as con.