Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-24
a4aiIg Gmpire,
POIItIcaI AssassinatIons.


lSrom the Albany New York) Argus and Atlas
The history OF Republics is, ia general free
from the stain Of political assassination.
There is vent to opular passions and to in
dividual vengeance through the press, the
forum, and the organization Of politics, E
The Republic Of Rome had actually ceased
to exist when the dagger OF Beutus and his
companions laid Caiar dead at the foot of
Pompey's statue Tbs history of the Empirs
ia black with the record of dark conspiracies
against rulers Rome was an absolut ism
tempered by assassination This is true Of
Oriental Empires, Turkey and Persia, both
ancient and modern-true OF Russia also
and OF despotic France, where the crime Of
Ravailae was initiated by Damicus. Marat
fell in the midst Of the hight Of terror and
Napoleon's life was again and again attem D.
ted, The tragic end Of the Emperor Paul is
but one Of many fearful chapters in the his
tory of Czars, Its parallel is to be found in
the disposition aud murder of the Saltan Sc.
lin by his Janizaries, expiated under his
successor by the general massacre of those
troops
Nor has that phase Of modern history
which succeeded the Napoleonic wars been
free from similar crimes. Plot followed plot
in France after the return Of the Bourbons
Wellington was fred at by Cantillon but es-
capped an assassination the more wanton, as
be was then engaged in the pacificaton OF
France, and in mitigating the burdens i'm
posed by the invaders on France. When
Louis XVIII Landed at Calais, in 1914, Lou
vel attempted to get to the pier, in order-to
ASSASSIN nate him tho instant he set foot ON the
soil OF France Haunted with the idea Of
ha for -,
crafty it, and failed but in 1920 tho oppor.
tunity presented itself as the Duo De Berri,
the nephew of Louis, and the second son OF
Count D. D'Artois, afterward Charles x, was in
front Of the opera house, and had lust cou.
Quoted his wife to her carriage, when the
dagger of Louvel struck him fatal blow,
The Cato street conspiracy in England,
embraced wider circle of crime. Forty
tcen dedicated themselves 10 the murder Of
the King and his Cabinet; the seizure of the
Bank OF England, and the declaration of
Provisional Government, showed the object
Of the plot. The detection Of the plot, the
conflict in the dark between the police and
the consprators, and the hanging of This
tlewood aud his four companions, with tha
decapitaton Of. their dead bodies, form a
bloody and tragic history not to be excelled
in horror.
This was in 1920. The assassination of
the dramatist Kotzebue. in Germany, the
previous year, by Charles Frederick Sands,
IN pursuance OF a sentence of death passed
by the tribunal Of secret society, was mem
orable because a literay man was the victim.
Since then, what crimes The reign OF
the good and moderate Louis Philippe was
stained by the attempts OF Fieschi, to whose
'inlernal machine, forty oil the eortege sur.
rounding the King and his family, fell vic
tins, while they miracnlously escaped. This
was in 1885 The attempt Of Alibaud fol
lowed in 1886, that of Darmes in 1910. Vain,
useless crimes Orsinis plot, aimed at Ma
poleon Ill, riyaled in destruchveness, thBin-
ierpai machine destined for the First Napo.
leon and that aimed at Louis Philippe
The attempt Of dismissed navy officer,
Randolph, to assassinate General jackson,
was the only crime Of this kind that has ever
stained our annals The mysterious poison
ings Of the National Hotel, on the inaugural
tou Of Buchanan, is matter of conjecture
only-opinion being divided as TO the origin
OF that mysterious illness whether malaria
or poison if the latter, as to who we're the
guilty, who The destined victims, and what the
object
In the long catalogue of crime which his.
tory reveals, one thing is striking. This plots
falling, involved the authors in a fatal web
or successful, were followed by fearful Sc
quence Of calamities. All the asssssins Of
Of Cesar perished by violence, The blow
they struck in The name of.Liberty was the
signal for organizing Despotism So Of every
such attempt Their futility but shows the
madness ofthose who taking their owD. frail
passions and weak judgments for guide, as.
sumo to set at naught GoD's MANDATE A9AIEsT
MURDER. ,-.F.-