The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-01-24
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Massacre of Cawnpore,
And Draws a Contrast Between the "Beau-
ties" Of MOlIammedanism and Him
d0oism and the Religion Of
the Gospel of Jesus.


through the press this week by Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage. Its subject: 'The
City of Blood, is based ON the text:
| 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.-Psalms cxl.,7.
Though you may read this text from
the Bible, read it as cnt by chisel
into the pedestal of cross beneath
which lie many of the massacred at
| Cawnpore, India. To show you what
Hindooism and Mohammedanism real
| ly are, where they have full swing,
and not as they represent themselves
in a parliament of religions" and to
demonstrate to what extent of cruelty
| and abominatlon human nature may
| 60 when fully let loose, and to illus
trate the hardening process of sin, and
! to remind you how our glorious Chris
tianity may utter it's triumph over
death and the grave, preach this my
second sermon in the Round the
World series, and | shall speak of
''The City of Blood" or Cawnpore,
India.
Two hours and ten minutes after it's
occurrence, Joseph Lee, of the Shrop-
shire 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. I could hardly
wait until the horses were put up to
the carriage, and Mr.. Lee seated with
us, started for the scene, the story of
which makes tame in contrast all Mo-
doc and Choctaw butcheries.
| It seems that all the worst passions
of the century were to be impersonated
by one man, and he, Mana Sahib, and
our escort at Cawnpore, Joseph Lee,
knew the man personally. Unfortun-
ately, 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 ma
tive who had been charged with fraud
The attorney came and so skillfully
managed the case of his client that
the client paid him enormously for
his services, and he went back
to England, taking with him a
picture Of his Indian client. After a
while the mutiny in India broke out, a
| Mana Sahib was mentioned as the
| champion villain of the whole affair,
and the newspapers of 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 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 a specimen of the
way the Hindoos dress, and forthwith
that picture was used, either by mis-
take or Intentionally, 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. Perhaps it was never in
tended that the face of such a demon
| should be preserved amid human rec
ords. l said to our escort: "Mr. Lee,
was there any popularity in Mana
Sahib's appearance?" The reply was:
Nothing very peculiar; he was dull,
lazy, cowardly, sensual man, brought
up to do nothing, and wanted to con-
tinue on the same scale to do nothing.
From what Mr.. Lee told me, and from
all 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 four hundred
thousand dollars. When the father
died the English government declined
to pay the same pension to the son.
Mana Sahib, but the poor fellow was
not in any way suffering from lack of
funds. His father left him eighty thou
sand dollars in gold ornaments; five
hundred thousand dollars in jewels;
eight hundred thousand dollars in
bonds, and other resources amounting
to at least fifteen hundred thousand
dollars. But the poor young man was
| uOJ SdtlSucu, duel Ilc Sd"upOTe HAS
eacre 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 q native, and he naturally took
her story, and thought there was nc
peril. But the time for the proclama
tion from Mana Sahib had come, an6
such document went forth as never
before had seen the light of day.
give only an extract:
''As by the kindness of God, and tn.
| good fortune of the emperor, all the
Christians who were at Delhi, Poonah
Sattarra and other places, and ever
/ those five thousand European soldier
who went in disguise into the formei
city and ware discoverd, are destroyed