Democratic messenger., 1895-01-05

In addition TO these two defenses Of
wall and water there were 40, 900 Sc
poys, all armed. Twelve hundred Brit
ish soldiers were to take that city.
Nicholson. the immortal general. com
manded them, and you must visit his
grave before you leave Delhi He fell
leading his troops He commanded them
even after being mortally wounded
You will read this inscription on his
tomb:
John Nicholson. who led the assault
Of Delhi. but fell in the hocr OF victory.
mortally wounded. and died esd Sep.
tember. 1857. aged So years.
The Cashmere Gate.
With what guns and men General
/ Nicholson could muster he had laid
siege % this walled city filed with
devils What fearful odds Twelve hun.
dred British troops. uncovered by any
military works. 10 take city surround
ed by firm and high masonry, ON the
top Of which were ll4 guns and defend
ed by 30. 600 foaming sepoys A larger
I percentage Of troops fell here than in
any great battle happen to know Of
+ The Crimean percentage Of the fallen
/ was | !. -. but the percentage of Delhi
was 81 .. Yet that city must be taken.
and il can only be taken by such cour-
ago As had never been recorded in all
/ the annals Of bloodshed. Every charge
Of the British regiments against the
walls and gates had been beaten back.
The hyenas Of Hindooism and Moham-
mechanism howled over the walls. and
the English army could do nothing but
/ bury their own dead. But at this gate
| stand and watch an exploit that makes
the page Of history tremble with agita-
tion.
This city has ten gates. but the most
/ famous is the one before which we now
stand, and il is called Cashmere gate
| Write the words in red ink because OF
the carnage Write them in letters Of
! light for tho illustrious deeds Write
them in letters Of black for the berefi
and the dead. Will the world ever for.
get that Cashmere ga,ef Lieutenant
Salkcld and Home and Sergeants Bur.
CESS, Carmichael and Smith offered &c
take bags of powder 10 the foot of iha,
gate and set them ON fire, blowing open
the gate. although they must die in do.
ing il. There they go Just after sunrise,
each one carrying sack containing "a
pounds Of powder. and doing this under
the fire of the enemy.
Lieutenant Home was the first e
jump into the ditch, which still re.
mains before the gate. As they 60. one
/ by one falls under the shot and shell.
! One of the mortally wounded as he
falls hands his sack Of powder with a
box Of lucifer matches to another, tell.
ing him 10 fire the sack. when. with
an explosion that shook the earth fOl
90 miles around, part Of the Cashmere
gate was blown into fragments, and the
bodies of some of these heroes were Sc
scattered they were never gathered fol
funeral or grave or monument. The
British army rushed in through the
broken gate. and although six days Of
hard fighting were necessary before the
city was i'll complete possession the
! crisis was past The Cashmere gate
open. the capture of Delhi and all i,
contained of palaces and mosques and
/ treasures was possible.
Lord Napier Of Magdala, Of whom
Mr.. Gladstone spoke 10 me so affection
ately when was his guest at Hawarden.
England. has lifted monument near
this Cashmere gate, with the names oi
the men who there fell inscribed there.
on That English lord. who had seen
courage on many a battlefield. visited
this Cashmere gate and felt that the
men who opened IL with the loss OF
their own lives ought TO be commemo
rated. and hence this cenotaph. But. aft
er all. the best monument is the gate
itself, with the deep gouges in the brick
wall on the left side made by two bomb
shells, and the wall above torn by ten
bombshells. and the wall ON the rieh,
side defactd and scraped and plowed
and gullied by all styles Of long reach
| ing weaponry Let the words Cash
mere gate. as synonym for patriot
ism and feariessness and self sacrifice.
go into all history. all art. all litera.
ture. all time. all eternityl My friends.
| that kind Of courage sanctified will vet
| take the whole earth for God. Indeed
the missionaries now nc Delhi. toiling
amid heathenism and fever and cholera.
and far away from home and comfort.
and staying there until they drop into
| their graves. are just ms brave In tax
| ing Delhi for Christ us were Nicholson
and Home and Carmichael in taking
Delhi for Great Britain. Take this for
the first sermonic lesson.
Vanished Giorie..
Another thing you must see il you
so 10 Delhi. though you leave many
things unseen. is the palace Of the mo-
guls II is al inclosure 1000 yards hy
500 You enter through a vaulted hall
nearly 400 feet long. Floors Of Floren-
tino mosaic and walls once emeralGed
and sapphired and carbuncled and dia-
mondcd | said to the guide, SHOW rs
where once stood the peacock throne -
Here it was, he responded. All the
thrones Of the earth put together would
/ not equal that for costliness and bill
lance L, had steps Of silver, and the
seat and arms were Of solid gold /,
cost about $3.50 600, 600 IL stood be.
tween two peacocks the feathers and
p!umes Of which were fashioned ont Of
| colorcd stones Above the throne was a
life sic parrot cut out Of one emerald.
Above all was a canopy resting on l2
columns Of gold, the canopy frinred
with pearls Seated here. the empe-o
on public occasions Wore a crown c9p-
tanning, among other things. the Koh.
moor diamond. and the entire blaze OF
coronet cost SO. $50. 600 This sup RI
aad once almost supernsturally beat IL
ful room has imbeddcd in the white
marble wall letters Of black mart le.
winch were translated 10 me from Fer
sian into English n meaning:
| Il on the earth there Lc an Eden % bliss.
That place i t,is. IS this. IS this. Is this
But the peacocks that stood beside
the throne have flown away. taking all
the display with them. and those white
marble floors were Redeemed with
slaughter, and those bathrooms ran
with blood. and that Eden Of which Tho