Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-13
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
CAWNPORE, INDIA, A SCENE OF
AWFUL CARNAGE.
DIR. Talmage Tells of the Scenes Re-
called by His Wanderings About the
City of the Terrible Mana Sahib-Des-
cription of the Man.

the second of his Round the World"
series of sermons, the subject being,
1.-The City of Blood" and the text Sc
lected being, Psalms, 141 vii, Our bones
are scattered at the graves mouth, as
when one cutteth and cleaveth wood
upon the earth. But mine eyes are
unto thee, o God the Lord
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 massacrcd at Gavin
pore, India. 10 show you what Hin
dooism and Mohammedanism really
are, where they have full swing, and
not as they represent themselves in
parliament of religions" and to dem
onstrate to what extent of cruelty and
abomination human nature may go
when fully let loose, and to illustrate
the hardening process of sin, and to
remind you how our glorious Christian
ity may utter its triumph over death
and the grave, preach this my second
sermon in the "Round the World" Sc
ries, and | shall speak of ''The City of
Blood, or Cawnpore, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after it's
occurrence, Joseph Lee ofthe Shropshire
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 to the carriage,
and, Mr.. Lee, seated with us, started
for the scene, the story of which makes
tame in contrast all Modoc and Choc-
taw butcheries.
1t seems that all the worst passions
of the century were to be unprecedented
by one man. and he, Mana Sahib, and
our escort at Cawnpore, joseph Lee,
knew the man personally. Unfortu-
nately, 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
native who had been charged
with fraud. The attorney came
and SO sl1ilfully managed the
case of his client that the
client paid him enormously for his
services, and he went back to England,
taking with him picture of his In
dian client. After awhile the mutiny
in India broke ont, and Mana Sahib
was mentioned as the champion villain
of the whole affair. and the news
papers of England wanted picture of
him and to interview some one on In
dian affairs who had recently been in
India. Among others the journalists
called upon this lawyer, lately re-
turned. The only picture he had
brought from India was a 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 the pict-
ure was used, either by mistake or in
tentionally, 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.
1CTudpS was HcNSr lulcutieu IudU
the face of such demon should be
preserved amid human records. Isaid
to our escort: '"Mr. Lee, was there
any popularity in Mana Sahibs APP
pearance?" The reply was, Nothing
very peculiar; he was a dull, lazy
cowardly, sensual man, brought up to
do nothing, and wanted to continue on
the same scale to do nothing" From
what Mr.. Lee told me, and from all l
could learn in India, Mana Sahib
ordered the massacre in that city from
sheer revenge. His father abdicated
the throne, and the English paid him
annually pension of 100000. When
the father died, the English govern
ment declined to pay the same pension
20 the son, Mana Sahib, but the poor
fellow was not in any suffering from
lack of funds. His father left him
$4,000 in gold ornaments; $500, 900 in
Jewels; $500, 900 in bonds, and other
resources amounting to at least 81 $780,
600. But the poor young man was not
satisfied, and the Cawnpore massacre
was his revenge. Gen. Wheeler, the
Englishman who had command of this
city, although often warned, could not
see that the Sepoys were planning for
his destruction, and that of all his
regiments, and all the Europeans in
Cawnpore.
Mr.. Lee explained all this to me by
the fact that Gen. Wheeler had mar
ried native, and he naturally took her
story, and thought there was no peril.
But the time for the proclamation
from Mana Sahib had come, and such
a document went forth as never before
had seen the light of day. / 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 and other places, and even
those 5000 European soldiers who went
in disguise into the former city and
were discovered, are destroyed and
sent to hell by the pious and sagacious
troops, who are firm to their religion,
and as they have all been con-
quered by the present government,
and as no trace of them is left in
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