Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 December 1894 — Page 3

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Torture and Massacre of Christians at Oawnpore. ▲ City of Blood Upoa Who** Desolated Area Hove Arisen Lasting Monuments to Martyrs — Now a Citadel of the Gospel.

Rot. T. DeWitt Talmage gives the second of his “Round the World” series of sermons through the press this week. Its subject is: “The City of Blood,” being based on the text: ; > Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. But mine eyes are unto Thee, ■O God the Lord.—Psalms cxH., 7. Though you may read this text from the Bible, I read it as cnt by chisel into the pedestal of a cross beneath which lie many of the massacred at ■Cawnpore, India. To show you what Hindooism and Mohammedanism really 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 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 Cawnpore, India. Two hours and ten minutes after its occurrence, Joseph Lee, of the Shropshire regiment of toot, rode in upon the Cawnpore massacre. He was the first man I met at Cawnpore. I wanted to hear the story from some one who t had been here in 1S.'»7, and with his A - 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 Modoe and Choctaw butcheries. It seems that all the worst passions •of the eentury were to be impersonated by one man. and he, Nana Sahib, and •our escort at Cawnpore, Joseph Lee, knew the man personally. Unfortunately, there is no correct picture of Nana Sahib in existence. The pictures •of him published in the books of Europe and America, and familiar to ns all. are an amusing mistake. This is tfie fact in regard to them: A lawyer of England was called to India for the purpose of defending the ease of a native 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 Nana Sahib was mentioned as the •champion villiain 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 xised, either by mistake or intentionally, for Nana Sahib. The English lawyer said he lived in dread tiiat his elieut 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 intended that the face of sucli a demon should be preserved amid human records. I said to our escort: “Mr. Lee, was there any peculiarity in Nana ;Sahil>’s. appearance?” 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 I could learn in India, Nana Sahib •ordei-ed the massacre in that city from .sheer revenge. His father abdicated the throne, aud the English paid him. annually a pension of four hundred thousand dollars. When the father •died the English government declined to pay the same pension to the son, Nana Sahib, but the poor fellow was not in any way suffering from lack of funds, llis father left him eighty thousand dollars in gold ornaments; five hundred thousand dollars in jewels; eight hundred thousand dollars in » bouds, and other resources amounting to at least fifteen huudred thousand •dollars, llut the poor young man was not satisfied, and tho 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 planuing for his destruction, and that of all his regiments, and all the Europeans in \ ■Cawnpr.-e.

Mr. Lee explained all this to me by •the fact tHat* Gen. Wheeler had married a native, and he naturally took her story, and thought there was no peril. Hut the time for the proclamation from Nana Sahib had come, and such a document went forth as never before had seen the light of day. I only an extract: “As by the kindness of God, and the good fortune of the emperor, all the Christians who were at Delhi, Poonah, Sattarra and other places, and even those five thousand European soldiers who went in disguise into the former city and were diseoverd, are destroyed .and sent to hell by the pious and sagacious troops, who are firm to their religion, and as they have all been conquered by the present government, and as no trace of them is left in these places, it is the duty of all the subjects and servants of the government to rejoice at the delightful intelligence, and carry on their respective work with comfort and ease. As by the bounty of the glorious Almighty and the enemy-destroying fortune of the emperor, the yellow-faced and narrow-minded people have been sent to hell, and Cawapore has been captured, it is necessary that all the

subjects and land-owners and government servants should be as obedient to the present government as they have been to the former one; that it is the incumbent duty of all the peasants and landed proprietors of every district to rejoioe at the thought that the Christians have been sent to hell, and both the Hindoo and Mohammedan religions have been confirmed, and that they should, as usual, be obedient to the authorities of the government, and never suffer any complaint against themselves to reach to the ears of the higher authority.”

“Mr. Lee, what is this?” I said to oar escort as the carriage halted by an embankment. “Here,” he said, “is the entrenchment where the Christians of Cawnpore took refuge. It is the remains of a wall which at the time of the mutiny was only four feet high, behind which, with no shelter from the sun, the heat at one hundred and thirty degrees, four hundred and forty Ihen and fire hundred and sixty women and children dwelt nearly a month. A handful of flour and split peas was the daily ration, and only two wells near by, the one in which they burled their dead, because they had no time to bury them in the earth, and the other well the focus on which the artillery of the enemy played, so that it was a choice between death by thirst and death by bullet or shell. Ten thousand yelling Hindoos outside this frail wall and one thousand suffering, dying people inside. In addition to the army of the Hindoos and Moslems, an invisible army of sickness swooped upon them. Some went raving mad under exposure; others dropped under apoplexy. A starving, mutilated, fevered, sunstrnck, ghastly group waiting to die. Why did not the heathen dash down those mud walls and the ten thousand annihilate the now less than one thousand? It was because they seemed supernaturally defended. Nana Sahib resolved to celebrate an anniversary. The 23d of June, 18.V7, would be one hundred years since the battle of Plassy, when under Lord Clive, India surrendered to England. That day the last European in Cawnpore was to be slaughtered. Other anniversaries have been celebrated with wine: this was to be celebrated with blood. Other anniversaries have been adorned with garlands; this with drawn swords. Others have been kept with songs; this with execrations. Others with the dance of the gay; this with the dance of death. The infantry and cavalry and artillery of Nana Sahib, made on that day one grand assault, but the few guns of the English and Scotch put to flight these Hindoo tigers. The courage of the fiends broke against that mud wall as the Waves of the sea against a lighthouse. The cavalry horses returned full run without their riders. The Lord looked out from the heavens, and on that anniversary day gave the victory to His people. Therefore, Nana Sahib must try some other plan. Standing in a field not far from the intrenohment of the English was a native Christian woman. Jaeobee by, name, holding high up in her hand a letter. It wasevidently a communication from the enemy, and Gen. Wheeler ordered the woman brought in. She handed him* a proposed treaty. If Gen. Wheeler and his men would give up their weapons, Nana Sahib would conduct them into safety; they could march out unmolested, the men, women and children; they could get doWn to-mor-row to the Ganges, where they would find boats to take them in peacpto Allahabad. There was some opposition to signing this treaty, but Gen. Wheel

er s wue ioiu nun ne couiu trust tae natives, and so lie signed the treaty. There was great joy in the intrenchment that night. Without molestation they went out and {jot plenty of water to drink, and water for a pood wash. The hunger and thirst and exposure from the consuming ,sun, with the thermometer from one hundred and twenty to one hundred* and forty, would cease. Mothers rejoiced at the prospect of saving their children. The young ladies of the intrenchraent would escape the wild beasts in human form. On the morrow, true to the promise, carts were ready to transport thase who were too mueh exhausted to walk. ‘•Get in the creriage,” said Mr. Lee, “and we will ride to the banks of the Ganges, for which the liberated combatants and non-combatants t started from this place.” On our way Mr. Lee pointed out a monument over the burial place which was opened for Gen. Wheeler's intrenchment, the well into which every night the dead had been dropped. Around it is a curious memorial. There are five crosses, one at each corner of the garden, and one at the center, from which inscription I to-day read my text. Riding on, we came to the Memorial church, built to the memory of those fallen in Cawnpore. The walls are covered with tablets and epitaphs. I copied two or three of the inscriptions: “These are they who come out of great tribulation;” also, “The dead shall be raised incorruptible;” also, “In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world:” also, “The Lord gave; the Lord hath taken away;” also, “Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.” “Get into the carriage,” said Mr. Lee, and we rode on to the Ganges, ! and got out at a Hindo temple stand1 ing on the Iwvuks. “Now,” said Mr. i Lee, “here is the place to which Gen. Wheeler and his people came under the escort of Nana Sahib.” I went down the steps to the margin of the river. Down these steps went Gen. Wheeler and the men, women and children under his care. They stood I on one side of the steps, and Nana ! Sahib and his staff stood on the other j side. • As the women were getting ! into the boats, Nana Sahib objected j that only the aged and infirm r women and children should go on : board the boats. The young and atj tractive women were kept out. rr>wentyeight boats were filled with men. worn

, ' .— en and children, and floated out into the river. Each boat contained ten armed natives. Then three boats fastened together were brought up and Gen. Wheeler and his stalf got in. Although orders were given to start, the three boats were detained. At this juncture a boy twelve years of age hoisted on the top of the Hindoo temple on the banks two flags, a Hindoo and a Mohammedan flag, at which signal the boatmen and armed natives jumped from the boats and swam for the shore; and from innumerable guns the natives on the bank fired on the boats and masked batteries above and below roared with destruction, and the boats sank with their precious cargo, and all went down, save three strong swimmers, who got to the opposite shore. Those who struggled out near by were dashed to death, hana Sahib and his staff with their swords slashed to pieces Gen. Wheeler and his staff, who had not got well away from the shore. I said that the young and attractive woman were not allowed to get into the boat. These were marched *way under the guard of the Sepoys.

“Which way,” I inquired, “I will show you,” said Mr. Lee. Again we took seats in the carriage and started for the climax of desperation and diabolism. Now we are on the way to a suujtner house, called the Assembly Rooms, which had beeu built foi recreation and pleasure. It had two rooms each twenty-nine by ten, and some windowless closets, and here were imprisoned two hundred and six helpless people. It was to become the prison of these women and children. Some of these Sepoys got permission of Nona Sahib to take one or more of these ladies to their own place, on the promise that they should be brought baek to the summer garden next morning. A daughter of Gen. W’heeler was so taken, and did not return. She afterward married the Mohammedan who had taken her tc his tent. Some Sepoys amused themselves by thrusting children through with bayonets and holding them up before their mothers in the summer house. All the doors closed and the Sepoys standing guard, the crowded women and children waited their doom for eighteen days and nights amid sickness and flies and stench and starvation. Then Nana Sahib heard that Havelock was coming, and his name was a terror to the Sepoys. Lest the women and children imprisoned in the Summer house, or assembly rooms, should be liberated, he ordered that their throats should be cut. The officers were commanded to do the work, and attempted it, but failed because the law of caste would not allow the Hindoo to hold the victims w-hile they were being slain. Then one hundred men were ordered to fire through the windows, but they fired over the heads of the imprisoned ones, and only a few were killed. Then Nana Sahib was in a rage, and ordered professional butchers from among the lowest of the gypsies to go a.t the work. Five of them, with hatchets, and swords, and knives, began the work, but three of them collapsed and fainted under the ghastliness, and it was left to two butchers to complete the slaughter. The struggle, the sharp cut, the blinding blow, the cleaving through scalp and skull, the begging for life, the death agony of hoar after hour, the tangled limbs of the copses, the piled-up dead—only God and those who were inside the summer house can ever know. The butchers came out exhausted, thinking they had done their work, and the doors were closed. But when they were again opened three women and three boys were still alive. All these were soon dispatched, and not a Christian or a European was left in Cawnpore. The murderers were paid fifty cents for each lady slain. The Mohammedan assassins dragged by the hair the dead bodies out of the summer house and threw them into a. well, by which I stood with such feelings as you can not imagine. But after the mutilated bodies had been thrown into the well, the record of the scene remained in hieroglyphics of crimson on the floor and wall of the slaughter house. An eye witness says that as he walked in the blood was shoe deep, and on this blood were tufts of hair, pieces of muslin, broken combs, fragments of pinafores, children’s straw hats, a card case containing a curl with the inscription: “Ned’s hair, with love;” a few leaves of an Episcopal prayer book; Bjlso a book entitled: “Preparation for Death;” a Bible, on the flyleaf of which was written: “For darling mamma, from he affectionate daughter, Isabella Blair”—both the one who presented it and the one to whom it w as presented, departed for

ever. Now, my friends, go home, after what I have said, to see the beauties of the Mohammedanism and Hindooism which many think it will be well to have introduced into America; and to dwell upon what natural Evolution will do where it has had its unhindered way for thousands of years. And to think upon the wonders of martyrdom for Christ’« sake; and to pray more earnest prayers for the missionaries and to contribute more largely for the world’s evangelization, and to be more assured than ever that the overthrow of the idolatries of nations is such a stupendous work that nothing but an Omnipotent God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ can ever achieve it. Amen! —When you see a man laid out on a cold marble slab in the morgue, you conclude he is dead. So when you see a professor of religion at a church frolic, or the theater, or the lodge, or the card-table, or anywhere that all his surroundings associations speaks of death, you may safely suppose that he is spiritually dead.—Sel. —As well might we expect vegetation to spring from the earth without tho sunshine or the dew as the Christian to unfold his graces and advance in his course, without patient, persevering, ardent prayer.-—Sabbath Advocate.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Comment* of tho Proas on tho Important 4 tat* Document. On the whole It la a satisfactory document which clean up the situation amazingly, which ▼111 excite but little hostile oritioism. and which is a creditable American state paper.— Chicago Herald. It is characteristic or him in its boldness, in Its devotion to the principle of tariff reform, and. most unhappily, in its complete aoquieacenoe in those principles of monetary science preached in bank parlors and practiced tor the proflt of bankers.—Chicago Times. In the president's party the message will be read with comments varying from the approval of the conservative element to expressions of disappointment twin the radical wing. His recommendations on the currency will be satisfactory to ail who are not inflated with the greenback heresy or the free silver mania.— St. Paul Globe. Mr. Cleveland's message would have been more useful if he had elaborated his views upon the currency and referred briefly to the reports of his secretaries on other subjects instead of stating other subjects fully and contenting himself with an Indorsement of Secretary Carlisle's plan for a change in the currency. . Reorganization of the currency is by far the most important subject that has been urged by any president since the war.—St.’ Louis Republic*

The striking feature of President Cleveland's annual message is its lucidity and comprehensiveness. The surprising feature of the document Is the absence of any recommendations that would invite contention. The message is 'written in the vigorous style and rugged periods which mark all the state papers of Mr. Cleveland. It is likeiy to make a profound Impression on congress and the country, and may stimulate such .a measure of energy on the part of senators and representatives during the short session as will secure some of the important reforms recommended. —Kansas City Time*. The president is nothing if not tenacious of his opinions. Me stUl dings to the idea that coal and iron should be placed upon the free list, but he gives no reasons for it. The president is silent, and by his silenco approves the tariff on raw sugar. It strikes us that raw sugar is a pretty raw material, and if his logic is good against a tariff on coal, iron and wool, certainly he ought to advocate putting sugar on the free list. The policy which the president advocates of ©steading our oommerceand enlarging our merchant marine is to be commended by every patriotic citizen.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The democratic party will approve of the president’s recommendations on the tariff question: the single bill for free ore and coal should be pushed and the repeal of the differential in favor of re&ned sugar is the least that oan be done. The president has raised an issue on the currency which is destined to divide the democratic party into two hostile factions. The issue is made olear and distinct, and the war will be waged with increasing vigor until the government issuos all paper money or none. The east will possibly applaud the president's advocacy of republican financiering, but the west and south should resent the attempt to fasten a Wail street systfcm upon the Country.—Omaha World-Herald. It is doubtful if there has ever been presented to a congress a more conservative and judicious address than that sent in by President Cleveland. It is free from radical views and aggressive proposals and should create harmony in the councils of the party in these its last days’Of power for some time to come. It is the tlrst time Mr. Cleveland has failed to burden his message with a policy. Onoe he dwelt on the necessity for civtl service reform, another time it was tariff reform and still at another it was a radical oourse in Hawaii and at another an anti-silver policy. This time the president has kept free from any violent positivism and he has done well.—N. O. Picayune. The presidential annual message transmitted to congress yesterday is unusually long and Is almost as uninteresting as it is long Aside from the indorsement and synopsis of Secretary Carlisle's plan for currency reform, with one or two other recommendations, the message has little other significance than attaches to a clerk-like condensation of the various department reports. In this respect it is very different from the preceding messages of Mr. Clevelaad. The feature that will attract most attention is the recommendation of a plan looking to the commendable object of divorcing the government from the business of banking and providing' an ample, elastic and perfectly safe banking currency.—Louisville Courier-Journal. < It is in the closing portion of his message ihat the president comes up most fully to the public expectation and de Is in his customary virile way with practical questions which are pressing upon congress. His declarations that the tariff needs amendment in certain important particulars, that we ought to have free coal and free iron. and. above all. that the differential duty in favor of refined sugar should be stricken off. are In entire accord, we firmly believe, with the popular judgment , and should receive the most favorable consideration of congress. What the president says of the currency question and as to the desirability of the government s withdrawing from the banking business is sound, sensible and timely, and supplemented as it is by his announced determination to maintain the credit of the government in the only way left to him so long as the banking business is continued, it ought to have great weight with congress as it will with the people.—Detroit Free Dress. The message of President Cleveland is. as a whole, a disappbintment. There is no clear note of leadership in it. It contains not the slightest recognition of the causes of the iate Overwhelming disaster to the democratic party. It has no word indicating* a purpose to amond the faults and correct the blunders that contributed to this defeat. There are four subjects involving the honor and welfare of the nation, the rights of the people and the repute of the party in power, which the president either ignores or treats in a partial and unsatisfactory manner. These are the nonenforcement of the anti-trust laws, the connivance of the attorney general at an attempt to relieve the Paeifio railroads of their obliga tions to the government, the Carnegie armorplate frauds and the scandalous sugar trust tariff schedule. It is a case where speech would have been stultification, for the president has as attorney general a corporation lawyer and trust promoter, who has officially sneered at the anti-trust law and has done nothing to secure its enforcement. As the official head of his party, the president was confronted with a high duty and a great opportunity. He could have put his administration right on the matters wherein the people have rebuked it for being wrong. Ue covyliL have speken the right and resolute word iof leadership that would restore the courage and revive the purpose of his party. He has shirked the duty. He has put by the opportunity.—N. Y. World.

-It would be a splendid triumph of democratic statesmanship if a “complete divorcement*’ of the government from any participation in banking, except the necessary regulation to secure safety, could be effected by the congress' which has passed the liyst great measure for divorcing the government from the private business of conducting industrial enterprises.—St. LtVtiis Keoublic. SHARPS AND FLATS. oMrs. Charles Dudley Warner is said to be the best amateur musician in New England. Eva Ingersoll, now Mrs. Brown, is a beautiful woman, passionately fond of music, as indeed all the members of Col. Ingersoll’s family are. Emperor William is like Oscar Wilde in that he knows a classic when he writes it. The imperial minister of public instruction has sent a note to the higher schools of the empire suggesting that- William's “Song to Aegir” should be generally studied.

.—- PERSONAL MENTION. Wnjnii Hnx, an American inHonf* koug1, has been fined $100 for sketching1 military works there. The Hills are playing in hard lock these days. Renewed interest is being taken in Boston in the movement to erect a suitable monument over the grave of John Hancock, in the old Granary burying ground. The last legislature appropriated $3,000 for the purpose and a special committee of the executive council is now giving hearings to those who have suggestions on the subject to make. Ben Davies, the famous tenor, confesses that the words of some of the popular songs he has to sing are doggerel. One song, he says, he sang only once because the words were so bad. He liked the music of it, but he was ashamed to stand up and utter the nonsense contained in tho words. Mr. Davies expresses wonder that composers should put up with such wretched sentiment. (j Miss Locisk Imogen Gitixey, writdr of verse, who is postmistress at Auburndale, Mass., has been boycotted by a number of people in the town because she keeps two 200-pound dogs, alleged to be fierce. People who don’t like dogs or are afraid of them, refuse to buy any stamps at the office, and as a result the business of the office has fallen off so seriously that the government has reduced Miss Guiney’s salary $100. Literary people all over New England, having heard of this, are sending her orders for stamps^- *- SHARPS AND FLATS. Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner is said to be the best amateur musician in New England. Eva Ixgersoll, now Mrs. Brown, is a beautiful woman, passionately fond of music, as indeed all the members of Col. Ingersoll’s family are. The composer of the air of “Annie Laurie” and of the words as now sung is still alive. She is Lady John Scott. The original song was in praise of a daughter of the first baronet of Maxwellton. • , Rubinstein had one bit of excusable vanity. His favorite violin bow was richly adorned and set with diamonds, and he prized it beyond measure. But there were no other jewels about him, and h«» dressed simply in black.

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