The free press., 1894-12-27

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building In which the massacre took place
bos been torn down. and u garden OF e4-
| ouisite md fragrant flowers surrounds tne
SCENE. Mr.. Lee pointed out to US some
seventy mounds containing bodies or por-
tions Of bodies of those not thrown into tue
we'll. A soldier stands on guard 10 Keep .hu
foliage and flowers from being rutnieS9iJ
nulled. / asked q soldier If might takea
| rose as n memento, and he handed me
cluster of roses, red and white. both coiors
suggestive TO me-the red typical OF the car
mage there enacted, and the white 1or tne
purity OF those who from that spot ascenuea.
But of course the most absorbing interest
| concentrated at the well, into which nun
| dreds of women and children were hung. or
| lowered. A circular wall Of white marble
incloses this well. The wall is about twenty
| feet high. Inside this wall there is maroie
pavement paced 1t and found IL MY
| saven paces around In the center OF tn,s
inclosure and Immediately above the well OF
the dead is a sculptured angel OF resufreo-
zion with jllumined face, and two palm
branches, meaning victory. Ihls anger -
| looking down toward the slumoerers De-
meath, but the two wings suggest the rising
of the last day. Mighty consolation IN mar
Bile They went down under the batchets OF
the sepovs. They shall come up under the
trumpet that shall wake the dead L iet
weak and all a-tremble as L stool readin9
these words ON the stone that covers tue
well: "Slcred to the perpetual memory OF
n great company OF Christian people, chiefly
women and children, cruelty massacred
near this spot by the rebel, Mana Sahio, ana
thrown the diving with the dead. into the
we'll beneath on the 18th day OF July, 1881
On the arch of the mausol cum were cut the
words. "These are they who came out OF
great tribulatioE.
The sun was sinking beneath the horizon
as T came down the seven or eight steps OF
hnr
myself: "No emperor unless it was Napoi-
leon, ever had moro glories around MS pll-
low of dust and no queen, unless II Wero
the ono of Tai Mahal, had reared or ner
grander cenotaph than crowns the resting
places of the martyrs OF CaWnpur but
where rest the bones OF the Herod Oh tne
nineteenth century. Mana Sahlb? Two men
sent out to find the whereabouts OF the
daughter OF General Wheeler tracked Mana
Slhb during a weeks ride into the wli1er-
dess, and they were told that for aWniie
after the mutiny Mana Sahib set up a little
ponp In the jungles. Among u rev thousau
Hindoos and Mohammedans he took for him
self the only two tents the neighbors had.
while they lived in the rain and mud. Mana
Sahb, with one servant carrying an um-
brella, 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-
Himalayan Mountains. He took with
him in his flight that which he always took
with him-a ruby OF vast value. He woreN
rs some wear an amulet. He wore It as
some wear life preserver. lie wore IL on
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 it have vanished. Not trensure
on the outside of the bosom, but treasure
inside the heart. is the best protection. SOLO
mou who had rubies in the hilt OF swords,
and rubes in the lip OF tho tankards. ana
rubies in his crown, declared that when
Mana Sahb did not find out in time, wis
dom is better than rubies." When the
forests OF India are cleared by the axes OF an
other civilization, the lost ruby OF this Gavin
pur monster may be picked up ana be
brought back again to blaze among the
worlds Jewels. But who shall reclaim Tor
decent sepulture the remains of Mana Sahib?
Ask the vultures Ask tho reptiles Ask
the jackals Ask the midnight Himalayas!
Much criticism has been made of Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell be-
cause of the exterminating 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 tho guns would fire, and Tor a rev
seconds there would be nothing but smoke,
and as the smoke began to llft fragments OF
flesh would be found flying through the air.
You may do your own criticism. l here ex-
press no opinion. There can be no doubt,
however, that that mode OF finally treating
the sepoys broke the back of the nutiny.
The Hlndoos found that the Europeans
the Asiatics had started. The plot
was organized for the murder OF
all the Europeans and Americans in
India. Under its knives and bludgeons
American Presbyterianism lost its glorious
missionaries, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell,
Rev. Mr. ami Mrs. MacMullln. Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman.
The work OF slaughter had been begun in
all directions on an appalling scale, and the
commanders of the English army made up
their minds that this was the best way.
Tho Black Hole prison has been torn
down, but "a stone pavement twenty feet by
twenty indicates the ground covered by the
prison. The building had two small win
dows, and was intended for two or three
prisoners. These natives of India crowded
into that one room OF twenty feet feet by
twenty feet LAG Europeans. The midsummer
heat, the sufocation, the trampling OF one
upon another, the groaning and shrieking
and begging and praying OF all, are matters
of history. The sepoys that night held lights
to the small windows and mocked the suffer
ers Then all tho sounds cease1. Tint
night OF June 20. 1885, passed, and 1913
corrses were taken out. Only twenty-three
people OF the 40 WbrS dllVt, anu tucy uuu
to be pulled out from under the corpses.
Mrs. Carey, who survived, was taken by the
Indian nabob into his harem and kept
prisoner six years. Lucknow in 1857 was
only an echo of Calcutta in 1756. During the
mutiny of which have been speaking ma
| tives who had been In the service of Euro
peans and we'll treated by them, AMI with no
cause Of offense, would, at the call OF the
mutineers, and without any compunction,
stab to death the fathers aud mothers Of the
household and dash out the brains OF the
children. These 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 us conquerors and them
selves as conquered. The mutiny of 1857
occurred because the British Government
was too lenient and put in places of trust
and in command of forts too many of the
natives.
call upon England to stop the present at
tempt to pailate tho natives by allowing
them to hold positions of trust. / 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 and Delhi martyrdoms