Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-04

hlCnarQ was Carried 10 IOuuIreJ CUStle,
where he held out for long time against
starvation. Sir Piers Exton and seven as
sistants were finally sent to dispatch him
The King bravely defended himself for
twenty minutes, killing two Of his assailants;
but Sir Piers got behind him on flight of
steps, and dashed out his brains with bat
tle-ax. Long afterward, however, the tomb
of this Stuart of the Pantagenets" was
opened, but no trace of this fatal wound was
found on the skull of its inmate. Henry
the VI. of England, was stabbed to death
in the Tower of London, on Tuesday, May
q, l47l, by the Duke of Gloucester, after
wards Richard Ill who crossed the Thames
in the afternoon, in small boat, for that
purpose. The weapon was a knife and the |
wound was between the ribs. Shakespeare
has woven the story Of this murder into one
of his plays with great effect.
James l., of Scotland, was murdered by
band of five or six assassins headed by Sir
Robert Graham, in the monastery of Black |
friars at Perth. 1t was midnight and the
festivities in which the King had been en-
gagged were still going on, when the conspira-
tors entered the Kings apartments, where
he was conversing with the Queen and sew
era ladies of the court. The King knocked
two of the assassins down but Graham
plunged his dagger into the Kings heart
and he fell dead, when the others stabbed
4 his body. The murderers were all put to
death by torture Graham was nailed naked
! to poll, his one hand cut off and burned
before his face, his body torn by pinchers,
! thrown into dungeon, and on the third day
afterwards bcheaded, his body quartered,
and sent to different party of the country
and his head placed on one of the gates Of
Edinburg
During the French Revolution Of 80, as
sassination was really the only remedy for
political evils, but still the old curse pursued
the crime Of murder, and the killing of po-
tcntates failed in that time, as in all other
instances, to produce the desired effect. -
The fierce and foolish fanatics of that ap-
palling era were no more to be intimidated
by the dagger of the assassin than theywere
, to be restrained by the rules Of justice, the
examples Of history, or the injunctions Of
God. The history of that dreadful upheaval
of the evil elements in society is but record
, Of assassnations. 1t is estimated that one
f million and twenty-five thousand human be-
ings were executed under the DEGREES of the
f revolutionary tribunal, each execution being
a mock judicial assassination. Louis XVI
and his Queen, Maria Antonette were in
effect assassinated by the Jacobins, although
much could be said in justification of the
regal heads were condemned to the guilo-
tine by an informal tribunal of the whole
, people, who, having themselves broken loose
from all the restraints oflaw, were not quail
> flied to sit in Judgment upon the infractiOns
, of the law. Among the most notable assas-
, sinations of that period was that of Marat,
| by Charlotte Corday. Marat was one of the
= Triumyirate who ruled France through the
Jacobin Clubs-his associates being Danton
and Robcspierre-an his taking off may
/ therefore be counted in the list Of regicides.
lie was the editor of the principal .lacobin
, paper of Paris, member of the National
Assembly, and one of the ruling and blood
lest spirits of the time. History has gen
\ orally condemned him as wretch and vii
t lain the most charitable judgment that car
d be passed upon him is that he was a fool
- not in the sense of being idiotic or ignorant
n but in that wide sense i'll which we use TIL,
IS word in describing one who habitually mis-
n judges events, and who has such unlimiteC
;. confidence in his own Judgment as to be in
y capable of doing right. On Saturday night
/ the 18th ofJuly, 1893, Marat, who had jus
,r been carried through the streets of Paris i
10 triumph by the infatuated multitude, retire
|, to his bath, and finished in it an editoriG
K intended for his journal calling for a ne,
Il. massacre of his senemies Charlotte Corday
ID young and beautiful girl, prompted by
,e feeling "betwixt lunacy and heroism, eli
ID tered his room, and directed Nlarat' attcn
10 ton to certain dsloyal parties in Caen, tror
is whence she came. Marat, eager for bloo
ID seized piece Of paper and commenced wri
rs ing the names he had heard and remarkc
rc that they should all lose their heads, whc
IL Charlotte stabbed him to the heart, and h
l. Immediately expired. The assassin in tn
q case was promptly gullotined but even til
I'd Revolutionary Tribunal had no torrors
he break her naughty spirit, and she died e>
no pressing her satisfaction that she had bee
el able to exchange her life for that ofa tyran
en- A similar attempt was reported to hay
he been made upon the life Of RobespicrTe, i
he an unsophisticated peasant girl, but Il
,is story is wrapped edinmyStery and helanguae
Ie Of the politics Of that time was lies, so thi
,lo no reliable details in regard to it are givel
as Strange to say that in seeking the interyie
sh with Robespicrc, the girllelt the knife whiC
yo she is supposed to have meant to use, i'll h
to basket in another room. In the lauguag
BIS of sensational historian Of that time, IS
e. cart loads Of human beings, the relatives
ed the would-b be assassin, were required to q
plate the oflenSe' of attempting to kill ii
IS incorruptible patriot Robespiclre WI
gs 'miraculously preserved from murder, OF
he " to suffer more ignoble death on the gui
os lotine, by the decree of the Convention
he had controlled so long, and whose proSidr
is officer he addressed for the last time
nd "Iresident Of ,ASSdSsiaS" Dauton, Il
ON noblest of the internal Triumvirate, had pr
on ccded his associate to the guillotinc.
ID OF the numerous attempts made to q
RS, sassinate the First Napoleon, all failed ,
mt though several were planned with diaboic
ed ingenuity, One attempt was made up,
his his life by two men named Carbon and
oc. Regent by means of an Internal machi
of concealed under bundle of hay in Il ca
ned in narrow street in Paris through wh
the Napoleon passed on his way to the opera
YER the 10th Of October, 1900. The intern
ith machine exploded, just as the Emperor
Use carriage passed, tearing the horse and c;
to pieces, knocking down several hous,
Il a killing twenty and wounding fifty
Inn, persons, but Napoleon and the marsha
are who were in the carriage, escaped unhu
low and went to the opera, despite the occ,
, of renee, where they We're greeted with tum
ant tuous applause. The driver of the G
he riago was drunk, and drove faster tn
,as. usual, which saved the Emporor's life,
ont the machine exploded but few secor
for after the carriage passed, The dri'
mir knew nothing Of the tho affair, and 81
posed the explosion was a salute in hoi
-. .