Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-10

BROOKLYN, Dec. 9.-Dr. Talmage to-
day delivered through the press the Sec
bnd of his ''round the world series of
sermons, the subject being "The City
of Blood and the text selected being
Psalms cxli, Z: "Our bones are scat
tered at the graves mouth, as when one
cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the
earth. But mine eyes are unto thee, o
God, the Lordi'
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 maSsacred at Cawnpur.
India. To show you what Hindooism
and Mohammedanism really are, where
they have full swing, and not as they
represent themselves in parliament
of religions and to demonstrate 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 Christianity may utter its
triumph over death and the grave, I
preach this my second sermon in the
round the world series, and I shall
speak of ''The City of Blood" or Gavin
pur, India.
occurrence Joseph Lee of the Shropshire
regiment Of foot rode in upon the Gavin
jpur massacre He was the first man /
met at Cawnpur. I wanted to hear the
STORY from some one who had been here
lin 1857 and with his own eyes gazed
upon the slaughtered heaps Of human
ity. could hardly wait until the horses
were put to the carriage, and Mr.. Lee
e.,
the story of which makes tame i'll con
trast all Modoc and Choctaw butcheries
A Genuine Villain.
It seems that all the worst passions Of
the century were to be unprecedented by
enc man, and he Mana Sahib, and our
escort at Cawnpur, Joseph Lee knew
the man personally. Unfortunately
there is no correct picture of Mana Sa
'hib il existence. The pictures Of him
published in the books Of Europe 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 q native who had
been charged with fraud. The attorney
came and SO skilIfully managed the case !
of his client that the client paid him
enormously for his services, and he
went back to England, taking with him
q picture of his Indian client After
awhile the mutiny in India broke out,
and Mana Sahib was mentioned as the
champion villain of the whole affair,
and the newspapers CT England wanted
a picture Of him and TO interview some
one On Indian affairs Who had recently
been in India.
Among others the journalists called
upon this lawyer, lately returned. The
only picture no had brought from India /
was picture of his client, the man
charged with fraud. The attorney gavo
this picture to the journals as q speci /
men Of the way the Hindoos dress, and /
forthwith that picture was used, either /
by mistake or Intentionally, for Mana /
Sahib. Tho English lawyer said he lived i
lin dread that his client would some day |
see the use made of his picture, and it /
was not until the death of his Hipdoo /
client that the lawyer divulged the /
facts. Perhaps it was never intended /
that tho face Of such demon should bo /
preserved amid human records. I said /
to our escort, "Mr. Lee, was there any
peculiarly in Mana Sahib's appear
ance?'' The reply was: Nothing very !
peculiar. He was dull. lazy, coward
ly, sensual man, brought up to do moth
ing, 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 an
nualIy d pension Of $500, 0C0. When the
father died, the English government de-
clined to pay the same pension to the
son, Mana Sahib but the poor fellow
was not in any suffering from lack Of
funds His father left him $50, 900 in
gold ornaments, $500, 600 i'll jewels.
$500, 600 in bonds and other resources
amounting to ct least 81, 500, 900. But
the poor young man was not satisfied,
and tho Cawnpur massacre was his re-
ivenge. General Wheeler, the English
man who had command of this city, al
though often warned, could not see that
the sepoys were planning for his de-
structiOn, and that of all his regiments
and all the Europeans in CaWnpur.
The Decree of Mana Sallib.
Mr.. Lee explained all this to me by
the fact that General Wheeler had mar
ried q 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 docu-
ment went forth as never before had
seen the light of day. give only an ex-
tract:
LAS by the kindness Of Cod, and the
good fortune of the emperor, all tho
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 |